Health and Sanity category archive
Nothing Doing 0
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A Picture Is Worth 0
How Republicans want to cut the health care pie:
Click for the original images published by Paul Krugman.
Via The Daily Banter.
The New Doomsday Book 0
Meanwhile, Dick Polman argues convincingly that the Kock Brothers and their cronies are pulling Mitch McConnell’s strings.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
The Trojan Hearse 0
In The Des Moines Register, Reka Basu skewers the duplicity of Trumpcare. A snippet:
If curtailing health-care access for many Americans to fatten the rich is what lawmakers want, they should say so. But that would cost them votes.
Childhood’s End 0
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Under Cover of Darkness 0
Josh Marshall points out that
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Republican Health (Don’t Call It) Care 0
At Philly.com, Ronnie Polaneczky profiles a Medicaid recipient who is a potential victim of Trumpcare. She’s a seven-year old girl from a solidly middle-class family who suffers from Rett Syndrome. Here’s a bit of her article:
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Emma is only one of the countless thousands of Americans who rely on Medicaid when their luck runs out. Sick kids, disabled adults, the impoverished elderly – there is a real person, a real family, behind every dollar. Trump’s butchering of Medicaid would trade the well-being of these Americans for tax breaks for those who are already rich enough to buy and staff their own hospitals.
That possibility is not just immoral.
It’s grotesque.