To hear Pramilla Jayapal tell it, budgets don’t matter and access to care is the same as quality of care. Neither could be further from the truth. Budgets do matter and access to care is not the same as quality … Continue reading Democrats Walk The Plank On Medicare-For-All
Donald Trump and Barack Obama do not share much in common. Their temperaments are different, they have different partisan allegiances and assembled vastly different political coalitions. But ironically, they seem to be following the same path to reelection. It might … Continue reading Trump Is Following Obama’s Path To Reelection
Buried in all the major changes brought by the GOP’s Tax Reform bill was a long sought after GOP goal; repeal of the ACA’s Individual Mandate starting in 2019. The Mandate was perhaps the most unpopular part of the law … Continue reading Did The GOP Just Save The ACA?
Republicans, eager to prove they can get something done after the failure to repeal Obamacare have pushed full speed ahead with tax reform. Just as eager, Democrats have stood in total opposition to the plan. On a 227-205 vote, the … Continue reading Why Democrats Will Never Produce Meaningful Tax Reform
Four of the five leading Democrats for President, Senators Corey Book (NJ), Elizabeth Warren (MA), Bernie Sanders (VT) and Kamala Harris (CA) have come out in favor of a single-payer system citing their support for building off the success of … Continue reading Republicans Are Happy To See Democrats Embrace Single-Payer Healthcare
The spectacular failure of the GOP health care bill in July, along with the continued antics of the Trump White House, have limited good news for the GOP of late. Arguably the only good news for the GOP of late … Continue reading Healthcare Reform Is Not Dead
If this summer doesn’t make you even remotely interested in the future of the United States, I don’t know what will. What we have right now, during July of 2017, is a GOP that is caught in the trap of … Continue reading Scrap it: Enough ‘Replace’, Time for ‘Repeal’
Emboldened by a struggling Republican President and recent legislative special election wins Democrats counterattacked and unveiled a new slogan and set of policies geared to helping the “working American.” The slogan, “A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages,” was … Continue reading Same Old Democratic Ideas
On July 27th, the GOP’s “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act — more commonly known as “Obamacare” — was rejected due to unanimous opposition by Senate Democrats, as well as negative votes from three Republican senators, including Arizona senator … Continue reading The “Skinny Repeal” and How “Party Loyalism” Is Influencing Healthcare Reform Efforts
The election of Donald Trump was supposed to usher in a new era of conservative governance. Instead, all it has done is divide the GOP along ideological and class based fault lines that have only grown since the GOP tried … Continue reading The Republicans Dilemma
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