Ryan's Plans To Screw The Working Class Is Color Blind-- And He's Happy To Trample White Workers Too
We had a pretty gigantic response to Sunday's post about the Republicans stabbing retired coal miners in the back over their health care.
Obamacare
So What Happens Once The Republicans Implement Ryan's And Price's Plan To Kill The Affordable Care Act?
Yesterday we all read that life expectancy-- particularly for the American working class-- has dropped.
U.S. Life Expectancy Falls for First Time Since 1993
Dying of drugs and despair — causes of death in the working class, from a 2015 study. by Gaius PubliusPart of the surprising primary-season discovery that Trump was popular, was the discovery of where he was popular. Put bluntly, he was popular where people, especially working class people, were dying.
The Surgeon General Has a Plan to Fix the Opioid Crisis
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released the nations first-ever “Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health” on November 16 that includes both alarming statistics and a plan to fix the nation’s opioid crisis. [1]
Dr. Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General. Source: Salon.com
If Ryan Pushes Through His Plans To Wreck The Health Care System, The GOP Will Lose Over Two Dozen House Seats In 2018
The closest Blue America ever came to actually endorsing a Republican was in 2012 when thoughtful Libertarian Justin Amash was the GOP candidate against rot-gut conservative hack, Steve Pestka, an anti-Choice crackpot and vicious homophobe. Michigan's local anti-Choice organization endorsed Pestka over Amash.
Ryan, Pence And Price Have A Problem: Even Republicans Want Health Care
Yesterday, Greg Sargent started the news cycle rolling at the Washington Post with a simple question: Will Donald Trump really go through with all of it?.
Trump Taps Obamacare Critic To Lead Department Of Health
Republicans hope that as Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, R-Ga, will dismantle President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Georgia Congressman Tom Price as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The orthopedic surgeon is a critic of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly referred to as “Obamacare.”
Donald Trump: "My 100-Day Action Plan"
Watch the first 2:45 of this clip to see a primary reason Establishment Democrats lost to Donald Trump. Remember as you read on — it didn't have to be this way.by Gaius PubliusWhat we're about to get from the incoming Trump administration is revealed in this two-page PDF released by the campaign in October before the election.
Trump face à ses promesses
Certains l’espèrent, d’autres le redoutent. Beaucoup de monde se demande si le futur président des États-Unis ira au bout de son programme. Donald Trump a formulé un certain nombre de promesses durant la campagne, et il est légitime de s’interroger sur ce qui, dans cette liste à la Prévert, tenait de la stratégie électorale d’une part, de la perspective de fond d’autre part. Le sort du monde durant ces quatre prochaines années dépend en partie de cette distinction.
