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Tag Archives: medicaid
While We Watch The Shutdown And the Rest Of The Circus
While our attention is once again diverted, there are shenanigans behind the curtains. The wannabe dictator/president is working hard on handing the corporations and the donor class all they want while he still has the power. Certainly not saying that … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Medicare for all
Tagged demolishing medicaid, medicaid
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Let’s make this the Health Care Congress
Coming out of the 2018 midterm elections in which health care was the top issue on voters’ minds, Protect Our Care is releasing a report this week on our blueprint for action in this next Congress. Voters elected a “Health Care … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, 2020 election campaign, Blog for Iowa, Medicare for all
Tagged affordable health care, medicaid, Republican sabotage of the ACA
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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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Ernst And Grassley Vote To Cut Medicare And Medicaid
As part of the budget bill passed late Thursday night by the senate Medicare will be cut by a massive $500 billion over the next ten years and Medicaid will be cut by an even more massive $1 Trillion over … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Blog for Iowa, Budget, Charles Grassley, David Koch, economic inequality, Joni Ernst, Medicare, Republican Policy
Tagged medicaid
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Taking Away LIHEAP?
As our media breathlessly pursues the current president’s Twitter droppings, the real rape of the American people goes on almost unreported. About the only thing that is getting reported on besides what a truly incompetent president we have is the … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance
Tagged election consequences, liheap, medicaid
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Health Care Should Be A Human Right
by Ralph Scharnau The human right to health care means that everyone gets the highest standard of care for physical and mental health. Individuals should receive this care regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual identification, geographical location, urban/suburban/rural domicile, political … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Health Care & Medicare
Tagged affordable care act, Children's Health Insurance, medicaid, medicare, United States National Health Care Act
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