Tag Archives: Medicare
The Surprising Reason So Many People Still Don’t Like Obamacare
It’s the nuances that get you each and every time. When we ask ourselves “why did the Affordable Care Act have to be 2000 plus pages long”? The answer is simple, there were a lot of third party interests to satisfy that went beyond the interests of the American people. I have noticed that I […]
Pelosi, Boehner Rekindle Bipartisanship With $214 Billion Medicare Deal
This is a welcome change and it goes to show that when two seasoned professionals come together and open-mindedly engage in negotiations, a constructive and positive piece of legislation can be achieved. I am sure that there will be additional adjustments made, but for a first run draft, it is very hopeful. Now I am […]
Obama Is Smack In The Middle Of A Brewing Fight Over Workplace Wellness
Since employers are driven to finding ways, any way it seems, to keep profit margins healthy, this one is most definitely a new and creative one, using one’s less than stellar fitness and nutritional habits as leverage in order to force a better outcome. I have an easy solution, let’s divorce health care insurance from […]
Samantha Bee Finds Out Medicare Funds Penis Pumps, Tries To High-Five NARAL’s Ilyse Hogue
Well it is nice to see that the double standard inherent within the Republican Party goes far beyond just money. So not only does the Republican Party have the double standard when it comes to taxes, subsidies, welfare and sex, but it has been expanded to sexual practices and how they are covered. It is […]
John Boehner Successfully Enrolls In Obamacare 45 Minutes After He Blogs About ‘Frustrating’ Experience
I know that the media frenzy is all about the glitches, the wait-times and the millions of canceled policies yet Mister Speaker Boehner successfully enrolled after 5 hours. I know that this sounds a bit excessive to most but prior to the launching of the ACA website,when you think of other sites, such as banking […]
Paul Ryan Spending Cuts Face Backlash From Moderate Republicans
There is such a large disconnect between the conservative tea party’s disdain for government and their understanding of what the government actually does for them. Many progressives had their share of amusement at the signs displayed by the older tea party activists “hands off my Medicare” at anti-Obamacare rallies a or any other conservative political […]
Paul Ryan Disses ‘The Help’ Again
Paul Ryan is a hypocrite. He accepted the people’s help when he was young and sadly lost his father, our help was in the form of social security that, of course his father paid into, and the government kept safe in a separately funded account, so that young Paul Ryan could benefit from his father’s […]
The Grand Bargain We Don’t Need
We are focusing on the wrong entitlement reforms. The republicans want to undermine our earned benefits and their strategy of attacking them as entitlements seems to be working, especially when they lump in the notion that since seniors are living longer the entitlements are in danger of bankrupting us. That is a huge canard. Social […]
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Big Insurance’s Health Care Scam for the Holidays
Shouldn’t profit and health care insurance be counter-intuitive in a sense? We speak about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and yet we are supposedly okay with putting a price tag on health care concerns. We have allowed health care insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies the license to put profit in front of humanity […]