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You Think This Is About Health Care? Sucka.

Robert I. Grundfest — Sun, 07 May 2017 15:31:55 +0000

This is not about health care, and as a matter of fact, the Republican self-immolation this past week has never been about health care. Or health insurance. Or health. Or care. It’s the taxes, stupid. That’s what the Republicans care about. That’s what they think will make them healthy and insure their political future. Taxes. […]

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Republicans’ Radical Plan to End Medicaid

Ezra Grant — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:00:15 +0000

The shiny object that has our attention is the latest nonsense spewing from Trump’s mouth at any given time. And while the media is focus on Trump and the Republican’s talk about repealing Obamacare, a move that will take healthcare away from 32 million Americans, and while the media is captivated by Trump’s dictator-style treatment of them, the bigger story is the […]

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Congress Finally Approves Bill to Help 9/11 Responders

Ezra Grant — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 15:14:32 +0000

Thanks in part to the likes of Jon Stewart who, after his retirement from The Daily Show, made it his personal duty to fight the Republicans that blocked progress on the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, Over 14 years after terrorists hijacked planes to strike the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, lawmakers on […]

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John Boehner Is Still Promising to Repeal Obamacare

Ezra Grant — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:04:53 +0000

Relax Americans, the good old folks in the Republican party are working hard on your behalf, and they are promising to do everything they can to take away your health care and to deny you the basic right of having affordable health care. In a statement issued on his website, House Speaker John Boehner said; […]

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Fox News To Ted Cruz – Majority of Americans Want Obamacare – Video

Ezra Grant — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:39:16 +0000

Although Americans from all stripes are showing more support for the President’s health care law, Republicans like Ted Cruz are still insisting that the people want “every word” of the law repealed. On the morning after a massive surge by Americans to get healthcare, Cruz was heard on Fox News saying, “I think at this […]

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Obamacare Prediction – 6 Million Sign ups Will Happen By End of March

Ezra Grant — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:58:03 +0000

Charles Gaba has “been tracking the most up-to-date enrollment information and offering his own projections on his blog, ACAsignups.net. On the same day that he predicted the 5 million signups milestone, he accurately predicted that California would hit the 1 million mark.” “His next big prediction: The final sign-up tally will hit 6.22 million.”

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Already More Healthcare Enrollees in December Than Entire Month of October

Ezra Grant — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:05:32 +0000

If you have no health insurance and have no interest in seeing what plans are available to you through healthcare.gov, then you’re either a Republican who thinks your party’s false message is more important than your own wellbeing, or you are a low information consumer listening to the lies of right winged media outlets. For […]

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Reuters Poll: Interest In Obamacare Coverage Still On the Rise

Ezra Grant — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:12:22 +0000

Reuters is reporting that uninsured Americans are showing more interest in the coverage offered under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law despite technical problems that have hindered enrollment through a government website, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The glitches have crippled HealthCare.gov, the new online insurance marketplace meant to serve people in 36 states, frustrating millions […]

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Fox Expert – “Women Have The Breasts,” So They Should Pay More for Health care

Ezra Grant — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:22:07 +0000

A Fox News medical expert on Tuesday argued that President Barack Obama’s administration was wrong to force gender equality for health insurance rates because men “only have the prostate,” while women “have the breasts, they have the ovaries.” “Look, it’s not bias, I’m not saying this as a man,” Fox News Medical A-Team contributor Dr. […]

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Mitt Romney To Americans – Use The Emergency Room As Your Primary Health Care Provider

Ezra Grant — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:39:47 +0000

With 46 days to go before the general election, Romney is shedding some light on his plans for Americans after he repeal ObamaCare. The Mitt Romney Health Care plan for Americans would be to get your healthcare needs from your local emergency room. No joke. In an appearance on 60 Minutes, host Scott Pelley got Mr. Romney […]

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Americans To Republicans – Leave ObamaCare Alone, Move On Already!

Ezra Grant — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:57:30 +0000

A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation taken after the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare finds a majority of Americans are tired of the Republican’s efforts to repeal President Obama’s Healthcare law. This poll fielded following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the heart of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) finds a majority of Americans (56 percent) […]

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Supreme Court Says ObamaCare Is Good

Ezra Grant — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:12:39 +0000

The Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s health care law today in a splintered, complex opinion that gives Obama a major election-year victory. Basically, a bare majority of the justices said that the individual mandate — the requirement that most Americans buy health insurance or pay a fine — is constitutional as a tax. “Because the […]

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More Americans To Suffer If Supreme Court Repeal Health Care

Ezra Grant — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:12:33 +0000

Thanks Republicans!!! Sarah Lewis is fed up with American health care: “I’ve completely removed myself from the system,” she said. “I don’t want to be a patient anymore.” Lewis, a 55-year-old single mother of two daughters, has been through the wringer. It started with a diagnosis of anal cancer in September 2010. Then came the […]

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No Matter What The Supreme Court Decides About Healthcare, Americans Will Be Unhappy

Ezra Grant — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:25:27 +0000

A new Pew Research Poll found that the public is unlikely to be satisfied with the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on the 2010 Affordable Care Act – no matter what the Court decides. Whether the Court decides to uphold the entire law, overturn the entire law, or reject the “individual mandate” while allowing the rest […]

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Mitt Romney Supports Insurance Companies Denying Coverage to People With Pre-Existing Condition

Ezra Grant — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:46:45 +0000

To put things in perspective, Mitt Romney implemented ObamaCare in Massachusetts. Okay, it wasn’t called ObamaCare when Mitt Romney fell in love with the idea that everyone in the state he governed should have access to quality Health Care and included an individual mandate requiring all to buy insurance. No, ObamaCare wasn’t around at that time, […]

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Health Care Spending at Slowest Pace in More Than 50 Years

Ezra Grant — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:39:21 +0000

The New York Times is reporting that the growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, surprising experts and offering some fuel for optimism about the federal government’s long-term fiscal performance. Much of the slowdown is because of the recession, and thus not unexpected, health experts say. But some of it […]

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Ed Gillespie – Romney’s Campaign Advisor – Lobbied For The Individual Mandate

Ezra Grant — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:02:39 +0000

Ed Gillespie – Mitt Romney’s new campaign adviser – was a lobbyist for a federal individual health insurance mandate two years before President Obama embraced the idea, the Washington Examiner reports. Gillespie wasn’t just one of CAHR’s lobbyists, he was their Republican headliner, touted in their press releases. So while Romney can make a federalist distinction about himself — that […]

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Nancy Pelosi Predicts Health Care will Survive Supreme Court

Ezra Grant — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:45:03 +0000

In a vote of 6 to 3, the Supreme Court will uphold President Obama’s healthcare reform law, the top House Democrat predicted this week. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she’d respect whatever the high court decides, but forecasts the verdict would fall for the Democrats. “I’m predicting 6 to 3 in favor,” Pelosi […]

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Americans are Believing the Right-Winged Propaganda about the Health Care Law

Ezra Grant — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:34:13 +0000

The right winged propaganda machine is succeeding. A new ABC News / Washington Post poll reveals that a majority of Americans have bought into the lie and now believe that the health care law signed by president Obama should be repealed. When asked about the individual mandate in the law, two thirds of those who […]

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Republican Mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh Calls a Georgetown University Law Student a “Slut”

Ezra Grant — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:26:23 +0000

This is what the Republicans have lowered themselves to. One of their leaders, their favorite sons, one of their most admired mouthpiece went on his radio show yesterday and called Susan Fluke “a slut” for wanting contraception as part of her health care coverage. After an all male panel headed by Republican Darrell Issa denied […]

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Saving The Economy – ObamaCare Ia A Job Creator

Ezra Grant — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:28:38 +0000

While the Republicans dwell in the land if make-belief with their “corporations are people my friend” mentality and their wish to deny you health care by repealing the law also known as “ObamaCare,” reports are surfacing showing more ways the health care law is benefiting the economy – by creating more jobs. President Barack Obama’s […]

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Eight Ways The Health Care Law Helps You

Ezra Grant — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:42:08 +0000

The following was posted by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health And Human Services on Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:06 PM EST As we ring in the New Year, we also want to take a minute to reflect on the progress we made in 2011. I’m proud to say that we had a very productive year […]

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Insurance, Young People And A Healthier American Future

Ezra Grant — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:47:19 +0000

A new report issued last week by the CDC contained some very good news – young Americans are taking advantage of a provision in the health care reform, signed into law by President Obama. Before President Obama’s historic health care reform law was passed, young people were generally dropped from their parents plan when they turned […]

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Health Care Reform Goes Before The Supreme Court

Ezra Grant — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:22:00 +0000

The announcement is made: beginning next March, the Republicans effort to officially take away your health care, and put your health decisions back into the hands of insurance companies, goes before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul —a case that […]

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Mitt Romney Weaves A Tangled Web Of Lies And Deceit

Ezra Grant — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:53:01 +0000

Oh Mitt! Why are you so filled with deceit? You criticized Rick Perry in a previous debate for providing “magnets” of “extraordinary government benefits” to undocumented immigrants in this country, but as it turns out, you too Mitty Romney are guilty of doing the very same thing you accused Perry of. Perry provides the undocumented with […]

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Ron Paul Knew The Man Who Died With No Health Care

Ezra Grant — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:11:11 +0000

The question Wolf Blitzer of CNN asked Republican presidential candidate, Ron Paul seemed hypothetical. But as fate would have it, Paul knew how real the question was. In 2008 when he ran for president, one of his campaign chairman died at the age of 49, owing $400,000.00 in healthcare cost because he had no insurance […]

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Republican Audience Applauds Hearing About People Dying

Ezra Grant — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:09:29 +0000

The call themself pro-lifers, you know, for life. But apparently, that belief stops immediately after birth. That was evident in the Republican’s last debate, where a hypothetical question was asked of the panel. What to do if a healthy person cannot afford healthcare and get’s sick to the point that they need intensive care, these […]

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Court Rules In Favor Of Healthcare Reform In Virginia

Ezra Grant — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:43:26 +0000

You can once again breathe a sigh of relief. The 4th circuit panel in Virginia has ruled that President Obama’s healthcare reform, better known as The Affordable Healthcare Act, is legal. To the millions of Americans who will benefit from this healthcare policy, and to the rest of America who would not have to flip […]

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Man Dies From Toothache. Thanks G.O.P.!

Ezra Grant — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:29:00 +0000

We often brag that we are the most powerful nation on earth. But are we also the most selfish and uncaring when it comes to our own citizens? Why is it apparently acceptable by some if our next door neighbor dies for something as trivial as a lack of healthcare or more specifically as in […]

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Republican Governor Rick Scott Gets Government Healthcare

Ezra Grant — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:24:02 +0000

This is a perfect case of “Do what I say, not as I do!”, and it furthers exemplifies the hypocrisy of today’s Republican party and the utter joke they have become. Case in point? Florida’s Republican Governor, Rick Scott: Scott and the rest of the Republicans, both in Congress and in state government, are on a rampage, […]

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