Tag Archives: medicaid cuts

Ashley Hinson Booed At Elkader Town Hall

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Elkader is: 78 miles from Cedar Rapids 74 miles from Waterloo 57 miles from Dubuque 42 miles from Decorah 140 miles from Grinnell 114 miles from Tama-Toledo The lying was so egregious it almost made me swoon.  The crowd was … Continue reading →

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MAGA Congress: The Upward Distribution Of Wealth

Posted on May 18, 2025 by Dave Bradley

  Pramilla Jayapal (D- Wash) summarizes how bad the cuts are (1 minute) Thom Hartmann has a real way of making hard to understand concepts pretty straight forward. In his daily letter for Wednesday, Hartmann explained how MAGA lawmakers are … Continue reading →

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Urgent Action Alert: IA-01 Call Miller-Meeks Today

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Action alert from Indivisible – This week, behind closed doors in Washington DC, House Republicans are meeting in private to decide how many millions of Americans they’ll kick off Medicaid — all to fund tax cuts that make billionaires even … Continue reading →

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Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, All Three?

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Trish Nelson

What are the Republicans going to take from the American people to pay for the billionaire tax breaks?   Mostly what I’ve been seeing in the info ecosystem is the emphasis on Medicaid cuts. But Medicare and Social Security are also … Continue reading →

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Party Of Death?

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Dave Bradley

Note: US House votes for budget that has deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare:    “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. As quickly as the news spread about the massacre in Las Vegas … Continue reading →

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Call Ernst And Grassley To Stop Cuts To Medicaid

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Dave Bradley

In 2017, Republicans in the Iowa Legislature cut hospital reimbursements, cut funding at our two remaining mental health institutions, failed to address the Medicaid managed-care mess, and wasted $3 million in state money in a misguided attempt to replace birth … Continue reading →

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