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“Dear Doctor – Would You Take a Paycut?” Part 3 of What You Need to Know about Paying for Healthcare
A Flagstaff physician answers questions from a viewer of her first videos on universal, single-payor healthcare: The Arizona Democratic Party supports single-payer healthcare.
Continue reading“I Don’t Want to Pay for Someone Else’s Healthcare!” – Part 2 of What You Need to Know About Paying for Healthcare
A Flagstaff physician explains: The Arizona Democratic Party supports single-payer health insurance for all.
Continue readingWhat You Need to Know About Paying for Healthcare — Part 1
A Flagstaff physician explains why we need universal single-payor healthcare.
Continue readingOverhauling the tax code is more complicated than the Trump administration expected.
Who knew taxes were so complicated? Certainly not POTUS 45. Source: The Finance 202: Overhauling the tax code is more complicated than the Trump administration expected – The Washington Post
Continue readingThorpe Says College Students ‘Dilute’ the Vote But What About Snowbirds?
Rep. Bob Thorpe wants to crack down on ‘temporary’ residents like left-wing college students, but not right-wing snowbirds. Bye-bye, Bob in 2018. Source: Republican Says College Students ‘Dilute’ the Vote and He Wants to Stop Them
Continue readingPut climate change, health care on Flake’s radar | Letters to the Editor
It’s becoming clear that US politics have become weird. Senator Flake remains quiet about climate change and health care….It’s time for voters to become active within the context of protecting the health and safety of the American public and exerting a moral influence on humanity. Read the full letter here: Put climate change, health care […]
Continue readingTake Action: Stop the Republican Health Care Bill in Its Tracks
The Republican’s Senate Bill came out of hiding on June 22 and it’s just as “mean” as the House Bill. Read the details here. Disabled protesters were dragged from Mitch McConnell’s office immediately after the announcement. The Arizona Democratic Party and Obama for America are calling for a demonstration at Senator Flake’s Phoenix office on […]
Continue readingThe Horror Show That Is the Republican Health Care Plan
The Senate bill came out of hiding on Thursday, promising big gifts to the rich: It would cut taxes on investment income (retroactively), wages above $200,000, medical devices, prescription drugs and indoor tanning. It also eliminates penalties for large employers’ failure to provide employees with health insurance and, though a minor amount of money in […]
Continue readingWhat’s in the Senate Obamacare replacement bill.
Mitch McConnell is more clever than Paul Ryan — that makes his bill more dangerous. He slow walks the cuts to healthcare subsidies and Medicaid so that their impact won’t hit until after the next election, yet budget rules allow him to grab the funds from those cuts for tax cuts for the rich now. […]
Continue readingRed Alert: Protect Our Health Care
Earlier this week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer declared a “red alert” on health care. He said we are not doing enough. The phones are silent in Congress, he said. This allows the Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, to keep drafting their revisions to the “mean” House bill (to quote Trump) outside public view. Their […]
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