Category Archives: Health Care & Medicare

The Health Care Abomination That Is America

Posted on December 15, 2025 by Paul Deaton

Dec. 15 is the deadline to sign up on the ACA marketplace for health insurance effective Jan 1, 2025. When I left the company and career of 25 years, securing health insurance was an issue. That was July 2009. There … Continue reading →

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Rescheduled Union Vote For UnityPoint Nurses In Des Moines Today

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Dave Bradley

A big load of thanks to Amie Rivers of iowastartingline.com for sending out the reminder email about the union vote taking place starting today and going through Tuesday, December 9th. The very fact that we have a situation where professionals … Continue reading →

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Make THEM Pay 

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Dave Bradley

Got this in email a couple of days ago. I thought I would try to help them gather some data. If you do not get Progress Iowa’s newsletter, they are requesting stories to help put a human face on Republican … Continue reading →

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Some Math From Thom Hartmann

Posted on April 19, 2025 by Dave Bradley

(4 minutes) Many of us have been making statements that the deficit is almost exactly equal to the amount of tax cuts for the wealthy that Republicans (pre MAGAs) and MAGAs have showered the wealthy with in this country over … Continue reading →

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Republicans Are Planning To Gut Health Care

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Dave Bradley

For 627,900 Iowans To Hand Out Tax Breaks To The Rich and Big Corporations FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –  December  10, 2024 Parker Williamson, Press Secretary press@progressiowa.org Reports released by The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and KFF show Republicans … Continue reading →

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Reminder: Health Care Is Still An Issue

Posted on October 5, 2024 by Dave Bradley

British guess cost of US Health care (5 minutes) Note this video is 4 years old: The corporate media pretty much sets the agenda for our elections. Understanding that “corporate” media is also a nice way of saying that the … Continue reading →

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Catfood Commission Redux

Posted on December 2, 2023 by Dave Bradley

Colorado MAGA representative Lauren Boebert  picks a fight with Oren “Hank” McKnelly, the Executive Counselor of the Social Security Administration. As usual Boebert is ill-prepared and looks like a fool – 2 minutes: The reason for this confrontation is that … Continue reading →

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Disconnected Thoughts On A Holiday Weekend

Posted on September 2, 2023 by Dave Bradley

For some reason I just can’t concentrate this week on a single subject. As I start to think deeply on a subject, suddenly I am distracted and my mind starts to consider the new subject. That may be a pattern … Continue reading →

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Let’s Remember Democratic Policies

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Dave Bradley

I am so tired of reading and writing about Trump and his MAGA world. I am so sick of turning on the TV only to see the latest rumor being treated as ‘serious news’ such as the recent distraction using … Continue reading →

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Comment Evokes Some Deep Thoughts

Posted on May 20, 2023 by Dave Bradley

“A patchwork” (2 minutes): Does this ever happen to you? I bet it does. A question from a friend sent me off into a lengthy period of deep thought. The question was simply “What kind of Medicare supplement do  you … Continue reading →

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