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Category Archives: Medicare
David Young The Epitome Of Today’s Republican Party
Retired teacher schools David Young on taxes (6 minutes) The sound is a little hard to hear so you may want to turn it up. Iowa’s 3rd district has a tight contest going on and I am kind of at … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Medicare, Social Security
Tagged Cindy Axne, David Young, IA-03, tax cuts for the rich
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Older Voters Leaving The Republican Party
“Believe them when they say they are coming after Medicare and Social Security.” Several articles around the internet in the past weeks indicate that older Americans are finally starting to understand that the Republican Party is in no way acting … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Health Care & Medicare, Medicare, Social Security, Social Security Disability Insurance
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The Children Are The Future
video 1.5 minutes https://youtu.be/dys990kJCQ4 NPR’s Weekend Edition last Saturday included a story on the seperation of a Guatemalan mother and her 3 year old son. Through an interpreter the NPR host, Scott Simon, conducted the interview. Near the end of the … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Children, Climate Action, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Environment, Health Care & Medicare, Medicare, Obamacare, Social Security
Tagged Betsy DeVos, DACA, Jeff Kaufmann
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Dismantling Healthcare In The US
As I wrote last week we have been deeply involved in the health care system as an elderly relative seems to be entering the latter stages of life. What a goddamned mess. It is so hard to believe that Americans … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Branstad, Health Care & Medicare, Kim Reynolds, Medicare
Tagged medicaid privatization
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Health Care, Health Care, Health Care!
We spent most of the holiday in the emergency room with an elderly relative. For those who have been in a similar situation you know that you will have a lot of time on your hands while waiting for test … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Branstad, Health Care & Medicare, Iowa legislature 2018, Kim Reynolds, Medicare
Tagged Iowa medicaid privatization
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Astonishing Number: US Spends $250 Million Per Day On War
That astonishing number is according to International Business Times, what the GWOT – Great War on Terror – has cost the US – some $1.46 Trillion total – since the day planes were flown into the World Trade Center and … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2018 Election Campaign, Blog for Iowa, Medicare, Social Security, tax cuts for the wealthy
Tagged cost of war, Great War on Terror, medicaid, Mike Pence
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To Do List This Week: Vote, Sign Up For Healthcare, Call Congress
Back when I was in school – when we walked miles there and miles back – one thing that was emphasized was that even as an average citizen you were expected to participate in the running of your government. Next … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Blog for Iowa, economic inequality, Medicare, Social Security
Tagged contact congress, healthcare.gov, medicaid, municipal elections, Muscatine
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About Those Tax Cuts And An Appeal From Rob Hogg
Here and below we have a couple of short ( 3 minute and 4 minute) videos with Robert Reich explaining just how the proposed tax cuts will only do just what we would expect Republican tax proposals to do – … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, economic inequality, Medicare, Social Security
Tagged contact congress, medicaid, tax reform
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Iowa’s Republicans In Congress Vote To Cut Medicare & Medicaid
Iowa’s Republican members of congress have once again leveled a boot into the ass of elderly, poor and disabled Iowans. Thursday the US House held a vote on the 2018 budget resolution. A major feature of that budget is the … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Affordable Care Act, Blog for Iowa, Charles Grassley, Congress, David Loebsack, Joni Ernst, Medicare, Republican Policy, Steve King
Tagged David Young, medicaid, Rod Blum
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