Tag Archives: 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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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Plan to Let AI Deny Medicare Coverage

Posted on September 4, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Action alert from Indivisible A huge, huge story broke just before the holiday weekend, but hardly anyone is talking about it. Let’s change that, shall we? Here’s the story: Donald Trump and Dr. Oz* are rolling out a pilot program … Continue reading →

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It’s Been A Long, Long Time

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Dave Bradley

(8:17)  I stumbled on this a couple days ago. Just to give you an idea of how long the right wing in this country has been able to choke off the idea of universal health care in this country, this … Continue reading →

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Republicans This Is What You Are Voting For

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Trish Nelson
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Book Review: The Hidden History of American Healthcare

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Paul Deaton

In The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich, author Thom Hartmann returns to familiar themes of greed, racism and oligarchic corruption. He applies them to a system of healthcare that profits the … Continue reading →

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The New Medicare For All Bill

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Trish Nelson

The Thom Hartmann Program Medicare for All has been modernized to include dental and vision but the new Bill is a little different from the famous John Conyers bill introduced nearly twenty years ago. Congressman Mark Pocan explains how the … Continue reading →

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Medicare For All Vs. Medicare Advantage

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Trish Nelson

Thom Hartmann talks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about Medicare Advantage programs.  He discusses why we need to move to Medicare for all and beef up coverage to include vision, dental and hearing instead of using … Continue reading →

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Health Care Should Be A Human Right

Posted on June 7, 2017 by bfiaralphscharnau

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 →

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Are Iowa Republicans Blum And King Koch Brothers Employees?

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Trish Nelson

They might as well be. They are apparently working for the Kochs’ agenda, not for Iowans.  Here is a message from the Iowa Democratic Party: Rod Blum Receives Award from Koch Brothers-Backed Group Pushing to Dismantle Medicare and Social Security … Continue reading →

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Stop Paul Ryan From Ending Medicare

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Trish Nelson

Message from Congressman Dave Loebsack (D) This year marks the 50th anniversary of Medicare, a program that has long been a safety net for our seniors who rely on it for their basic healthcare needs. However, House Republicans, led by … Continue reading →

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