ObamaCare Betrayal: Big Corporations To Offer Health Insurance NOT Covering...
If you work at Bill Miller Bar-B-Q in Texas, ObamaCare means that you'll get the following insurance plan. Oh, you lucky duckies! From the debacle that is putting preservation of private health...
View ArticleMitt: Sandy Timing Bad; Allowed President To Be Nice To People
What a selfish asshole:"I wish the hurricane hadn't happened when it did because it gave the President a chance to be presidential, be out showing sympathy for folks. That's one of the advantages of...
View ArticleGOP Hospital Executive Calls For Single-Payer (Medicare For All) As Solution...
Nothing makes me more angry than listening to the Very Serious People at CNN and MSNBC claim that single-payer health insurance (i.e. Medicare for all) is some sort of left-wing policy. It's not -- and...
View ArticleIf You Care About Single-Payer, You'll Care About Massachusetts'...
Could the same statehouse that brought us ObamaCare (errr...RomneyCare) be the statehouse that brings us BerwickCare (errr...Medicare for all)?Don Berwick, former pediatrician and Center for Medicaid...
View ArticleWonky: Why Liberals Get So Mad There's No Public Option In ObamaCare; Short &...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that many mainstream Democrats (i.e. Robert Gibbs) fail to understand why the 'professional left' remains so angry -- to its very core -- that a public option...
View ArticleOhio Governor: Pass Medicaid Expansion Or Go To Hell!
This is pretty rich: Tea Party-fave (well, now, former fave) Ohio Governor John Kasich is resorting to threatening his GOP colleagues -- who don't think the poor deserve to see doctors -- with the big...
View ArticleFrom South America to North America: A Lesson From Brazil
Matt Drudge has been gleefully editorializing about the Brazil protests by suggesting -- through deceptive labeling of article links -- that they are against 'big government'. He could not be more...
View ArticleSwiss Voters Want To Ditch Their 'ObamaCare'; Replace With Single-Payer
Yes, ObamaCare is better than nothing -- and, for the United States, a huge improvement. Still, it's silly policy that puts preserving private insurance company profits ahead of what's best for...
View ArticleCalifornia Man Faces 13 Years In Prison For Offending Bank of America With...
UPDATE (ACTION NEEDED): The Daily Kos Community has launched a petition in support of Jeff Olson...and the First Amendment. Tell the San Diego City Attorney to drop the case by signing our...
View Article'We must hate our children'
Conservatives have succeeded in pushing America towards, perhaps, the world's most regressively-financed system of higher education. Or, as Salon's Joan Walsh puts it: We must hate our children.Over...
View ArticleHoward Dean: Mandate Delay Begins Shift To Government-Financed Health Care...
Yes, before anyone complains, I do think that CNBC is basically putting words in Howard's mouth by suggesting that this delay will signal a shift to a single-payer system. Having said that, this...
View ArticleTragic...
No words:The seven-year-old boy shot in head by a stray bullet Thursday night has died, Chesterfield Police said. Police said Brendon Mackey, 7, was walking with his father in the parking lot of the...
View ArticleWow! Just watch this video -- WOW!
Charles Koch is at it again and just released an appallingly cynical television advert telling the poor in America that they're, well, basically the luckiest people on Earth:Koch has no shame. Please...
View ArticleCondescending McDonald's 'budgeting' website pretends they pay living wage,...
The folks at McDonald's seem to be taking a page from Charles Koch in attempting to convince the poor they really do have it made in the shade. Check out this so-sad-it's-funny-you-need-to-cry video...
View ArticleWe are George: private security, neoliberalism and murdering our children
There are many consequences of America's neoliberal -- private, market-oriented -- approach to social and economic policy. Our sick hold bake sales to pay for their cancer drugs. Our urban school...
View ArticleSingle-payer would save the next Detroit
Detroit has gone bankrupt. Untold misery will be inflicted by bankers and creditors upon the residents, civil servants and small businesses of this incredible city. It didn't have to be this way, and...
View ArticleCory Booker, watch this and see what real political courage and leadership...
New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt is challenging Newark Mayor Cory Booker for New Jersey's Senate seat. If you care more about good policy than jokes on Twitter, have a look:You want style? Support Cory. You...
View ArticleMontana Experiment Brings NHS-Style Health Care to USA; Saves State Millions,...
Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has pledged his support for single-payer health care in the past, but his recent efforts to bring zero-cost sharing primary and preventive care to Montana...
View ArticleWalmart's 'Worst Nightmare' Competition Has Cashiers And Produce Clerks With...
WinCo -- a low-cost grocery store chain from Idaho -- is being described as Walmart's 'worst nightmare' in a recent Time Article:Retail analysts say that the world’s biggest retailer has reason to fear...
View ArticleIn America, $0.26 is worth more than a dying man's life.
In the United States of America, $0.26 -- just a penny and a quarter -- is worth more than your life. Or, at least that was the case for Sergio Branco:The letter listed premium amounts for family...
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