Why Republicans Fight Against Health Care
11/19/19
Robert Reich explains why Republicans, Corporate Democrats, and the rich
are fighting with everything they've got ...
against Medicare-For-All
The most amazing part to me is how Republicans are able
to convince half the people (conservatives) to cut their own throats.
Behold the awesome power of ... brainwashing.
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12/4/13
Why the rich hate Obama and the Affordable Healthcare Act so much
If only Conservative ideologues could be made to realize
that the last paragraph of that article
held the answer to freeing them from the tyranny of lies
that has been manipulating them,
America could finally begin its long climb out of the valley of destruction.
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Make sure you point that out to the blue collar guy on Facebook
who tells you that he's paying for the freeloaders.
He is indeed, but he's looking in the wrong direction when he turns his gaze ...
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How Republicans Fight Against Health Care
2/22/24
Now that corporations dictate medical decisions to the medical professionals,
patients are being sacrificed for profits. Here is another way they do that ...
increased staffing ratios
Money quote:
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The problem ... is a hospital industry
that's been intentionally understaffing their units for years,
in order to cut costs and boost profits."
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2/24/17
Conservatives constantly scream about "State's Rights!"
But that is a lie. They are only for State's Rights
when they need to circumvent Federal equality laws.
Here is the proof that they will stomp on State's Rights
when it is in their political interest to do so ...
They want to eliminate the Medicaid Expansion
"Red" state governors opted out of the Medicaid Expansion
which cost the lives of thousands of their own citizens.
Yet these "State's Rights" advocates want to deny other states
the right to accept the Medicaid Expansion.
You fell for this America.
It was all right in front of your eyes.
So quit whining, bend over, and grab your ankles.
Many thousands of you are going to die.
And this is what you Conservatives voted for.
Keep voting Republican ... the rich sure do appreciate your support
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6/30/14
Ideological Supreme Court votes 5-4 (as usual)
to defecate on our Constitution
I have a question - during all those years that Hobby Lobby owner Steve Green
and his lovely, ultra-rich wife Barbara were providing health insurance for their employees
(which included contraception coverage) ... why were their religious beliefs not offended then?
Were they Atheists?
No - quite the opposite.
Did Jesus visit them one night and scold them for not being offended?
Not likely.
Did their business become financially strapped for cash?
No, they are America's largest arts and crafts chain.
Or was it - oh, I don't know - maybe when Obamacare was ruled constitutional
that the Greens became filled with the Holy Spirit,
and suddenly decided that they had been wrong all those years during the Bush administration
when they provided health care for their employees (which included contraception coverage)?
BINGO!
The Oklahoma Bible Belt strikes back at that uppity negro.
(whom they have failed to beat, twice, in democratic elections)
The entire premise of Hobby Lobby's argument
is that their religious beliefs were offended.
I have just proven that they were not.
Their religious beliefs were fine with providing contraception under Bush.
Therefore ... they have no valid argument.
That point alone should have resulted in a 9-0 decision against Hobby Lobby.
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3/30/14
Remember when Republicans were complaining about death panels?
The Medicaid refusal in Republican-controlled states ...
will result in many thousands of deaths
Republican leaders turned out to be the death panels.
(and understand, that these are just the deaths;
the numbers don't include the millions who survive
and have to suffer, and live with
devastating, untreated health problems)
Conservatives value political power more than human life.
So keep voting Republican - The Rich certainly do appreciate your support.
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The ACA & Medicare For All
10/16/23
Here's a good article explaining how,
when it comes to providing healthcare,
America wound up being ...
the worst wealthy country on Earth
The enemy of 99% of all Americans
continues to be the American Oligarchy
who work mainly through the Republican party.
as famed linguist Noam Chomsky once wrote:
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"Today’s Republican Party are qualifying as candidates
for the most dangerous organization in human history.
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The article above was just another
(in a long list of evidence)
backing up Chomsky's quote.
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1/25/20
Every study shows that Medicare For All will cost us less ...
than our current system (4:06)
At the end he says that he cannot support a candidate who lies to us.
While I understand his sentiment,
that "Bernie-Bro" attitude is what got us Donald Trump.
Sometimes you just have to suck it up and accept the fact
that you can't always get the one you want
and are forced to choose between the lesser of 2 evils.
Here is an old quote from Steven Novella on this topic ...
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I was hoping for one election in my life
when the flesh would not melt off my bones
while pulling the lever for the lesser of 2 assholes."
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12/23/17
Trump's new budget is designed to do,
what his Congress failed to do: destroy Obamacare.
Now that his budget is passed and signed ...
guess who is freaking out the most?
That's called Karma.
I would like to say I feel sorry for those people.
But the truth is: I only feel sorry for the ones who didn't vote for Trump.
That's why, as much as we may be tempted, we cannot abandon the morons to their fate;
because they are bringing everyone else down with them.
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6/11/16
Conservatives blasted Obama for saying that you could "keep your doctor."
And that was true, unless you were in a substandard plan
(in other words, you were being ripped off).
Here is an example of a requirement that the ACA makes of insurers
Coverage of virtual colonoscopies
So conservatives were screaming because they could no longer remain on plans
that were cheating them (now you know why we call them "Tools").
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10/19/14
Why I think Chief Justice John Roberts allowed the ACA to stand
Additional Note
When Obamacare was upheld by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision,
there were 8 justices who could have been "accused"
of sacrificing their sworn duty in order to promote their political ideologies.
The accusation could have been made against all 4 liberal judges who supported it.
The accusation could have been made against all 4 conservative judges who voted against it.
There was only one judge, against whom, that accusation could not be leveled:
Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative who voted to support it.
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6/29/13
Obamacare compromise fails to satisfy
Evangelicals and the Republican anti-women contingent
No matter how many times the Obama administration bends over backwards
to accommodate women-hating Republicans and religious freaks, it fails to satisfy them.
That's because they are not interested in compromise.
They are interested only in continuing their domination of society;
especially where it concerns women and sex.
They continue to try to force their screwy religious beliefs on everyone else;
and when they are prevented from doing so, they scream "Religious Discrimination!"
News Flash - no one is attacking your freedom to believe in, and practice, your religion.
What modern society IS attacking, is your freedom to force your crazy, screwball beliefs ...
on everyone else
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Worldwide Health Care
7/18/23
U.S. death rates are much higher than in other advanced nations ...
which began increasing with Reagan
American Oligarchs are killing astronomically more Americans
than all of America's so-called "enemies" combined.
Yet the majority ... never figure that out.
And the sickest part of all - is that they are killing us for money;
even though they already have more than all the rest of us.
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7/21/21
A huge percentage of Americans are in medical debt.
And Republicans refusing Medicaid for their constituents made it much worse ...
for their constituents
Quote from the article:
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That’s a pretty stunning and uniquely American phenomenon."
Keep voting Republican ... because they care about you Goddammit.
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6/18/14
Even after the United States passed Obamacare
We still rank last in healthcare
And if Republicans could have their way,
they would give new meaning to the word "last"
by returning America to its old system.
This chart shows us what America is getting for its money ...
America spends way more than anyone else
which explains why our life expectancy is greater than poor nations;
but it doesn't explain why so many countries beat us in life expectancy.
With what we spend, we should be living 500 years ... at least.
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Euthanasia
7/7/15
Euthanasia bill in California killed by Catholics
Catholics continue to bring misery
to everyone they come into contact with ...
just as they have for the last 2,000 years
UPDATE
3 months later in California ...
Catholics take another huge hit!
40 million people (the population of California)
now have access to physician-assisted suicide,
meaning that the Church's ability to force suffering on millions
continues to diminish, century by century.
We don't even make dogs suffer for Christ's sake.
It's way past time that we did the same for people.
UPDATE - 5/16/18
Judge kills California euthanasia law
The sickest part about this story is the jubilation that Catholics must be feeling
now that they can once again force suffering people to endure a fate
that we don't even force on dogs and horses.
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3/22/15
Euthanasia opponent dies
The argument isn't just over Euthanasia.
The argument is over religious freaks
being allowed to force rational people to suffer.
(sound monotonously familiar?)
If someone like Tippetts wants to drag out her agony
because that's what she believes her invisible ghost wants ...
then more power to her - that is her right.
But they should not have the right to force others to suffer
because of their screwy beliefs.
Canada finally got their religious idiots under control and legalized Euthanasia;
it's long past time, that we in America ... do the same
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