Tag Archives: Healthcare
What You Need to Know About Paying for Healthcare — Part 1
A Flagstaff physician explains why we need universal single-payor healthcare.
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 […]
Continue readingAction Alert: Demand “Regular Order” on Healthcare Bill
While DC and the world were distracted by James Comey this week, Republicans in the Senate pushed ahead with their closed-door drafting of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. On Friday, Senator Claire McCaskill reacted during a heated exchange with Senator Hatch in the Senate Finance Committee. We’re asking you to join Senator McCaskill […]
Continue readingIt’s the Republicans Who Can’t Pass Healthcare and Tax Reform
Trump wrote on Twitter that the Senate should change its long-standing rules and ‘switch to 51’ votes to pass health-care changes and to vote on a tax bill instead of working to get 60 votes to end a potential filibuster. But the Senate is already trying to pass health-care and tax changes with just 51 […]
Continue readingCBO Scores Trumpcare: 23 million will lose insurance
WASHINGTON – DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office released their analysis of Trumpcare, the Republican health care bill: “Trump and House Republicans threw themselves a party for passing this bill, and now we know exactly what they were celebrating: 23 million Americans potentially losing their care—including 14 million […]
Continue readingPriorities
Budgets are about priorities, and Trump’s first full budget submission makes clear that he puts the interests of the wealthy — like the billionaires he has appointed to his cabinet — over working families. Trump’s budget plan makes massive cuts to Medicaid, college loans, public schools, middle and working class tax credits and more to […]
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