Corporate Mergers of Health Care Giants: CEOs and Wall Street Win, Patients Lose
The days of having your own doctor and a stable way to access care are rapidly disappearing as the drive to increase corporate mergers of health care giants gains further momentum. Under the guise of...
View ArticleTrump’s Medicaid: Sabotage of a Five-Decade Social Contract
Medicaid was enacted in 1965 under the Lyndon Johnson administration as a social insurance program to provide lower-income Americans with the health care they need. Since then it has been solidly...
View ArticleWhy We Need Permanent Security Clearances For Candidates For the White House
Events during the 2016 presidential campaigns and the first year of the Trump presidency have called into serious question his character, ethical behavior, mental health, and fitness for the office he...
View ArticleSabotage of Obamacare and Republican Ownership of TrumpCare
Since the Republican Congress failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, over the last nine and a half years, including the first 18 months of the Trump presidency, there...
View ArticleDeregulation Leads to Uncontrolled Costs of U. S. Health Care
Healthcare will be a lot less expensive for everyone—the government, consumers, providers. —President Donald Trump (1)The above statement by Donald Trump could not be more uninformed, misguided, and...
View ArticleWinners and Losers under TrumpCare
Before his inauguration, incoming President Trump made this promise about health care in the country: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody. People can expect to have great health care. It will...
View ArticleWhat Is Happening With Trumpcare?
Before his inauguration in 2017, Trump made this promise: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody. People can expect to have great health care. It will be in a much simplified form. Much less...
View ArticleMedicare For All: Another Surrender In Advance By The Democrats
With growing support among the public and with many Democratic candidates taking strong positions for single-payer Medicare for All, a battle is being engaged again between supporters and opponents in...
View ArticleProfiteering, Waste, Corruption, And Fraud in U. S. Health Care: Worse Than...
Corporatization and growth of for-profit health care have been rapidly increasing in this country for many years, but are much worse under TrumpCare, which has relaxed many of the previous restraints...
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The Case Against Privatization of U. S. Health Care
Conservatives have long held that the free market can resolve system issues of access, costs, affordability and quality of health care. Long experience with privatized health care in this country,...
View ArticleFACT CHECK ON CLAIMS BY OPPONENTS OF MEDICARE FOR ALL
As the debate over health care heats up during the 2020 election cycle, it is challenging to separate truth from disinformation, memes, and outright lies by a defensive private health insurance...
View Article“Protection” of Pre-Existing Conditions: Blatant Lies By Trump and the GOP
Health care has emerged as the leading issue in the mid-term election campaigns in both political parties, especially over the importance of requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions as was...
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