Medicare for All

Before the 1964 Democratic landslide-- resulting in 295 Democratic House seats and just 140 for the Republicans and a 68-32 Democratic majority in the Senate-- conservatives had teamed up with the American Medical Association (AMA) to slime Medicare proposals for SIXTY years.

Drug prices are too high for many reasons, but there is just one person blocking a fix: MoscowMitchI have to admit that Pelosi’s plan to lower drug costs is more progressive than I-- or anyone else-- expected.

From 1905, when it was first introduced, to 1965 when a Democratic landslide the year before than finally allowed it to pass, Medicare had been opposed by conservatives-- of both parties. In its last few years before passage, Wilbur Mills (D-AR), the completely conservative Democrat sexual predator and alcoholic who chaired the then all-powerful House Ways and Means Committee prevented Medicare from being voted on.

Blue America just reinstituted a new page for Medicare-For-All supporters.

I admit it... gladly, proudly: I've always detested Joe Biden. Loathed the guy-- in the '70s he was an outright racist, not even hiding it-- and then went on to be one of the most conservative Democratic shitheads in the Senate, along with Joe Lieberman (CT), Henry Jackson (WA), John Stennis (MS), Max Baucus (MT), Ernest Hollings (SC), James Exon (NE), Russell Long (LA), Herman Talmadge (GA), J.

Ben Ray Luján is running scared. This week he "broke" with Pelosi, his puppet-master, and suddenly called for impeaching Trump. Over the course of the last month or so, he also broke with her on the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-All. And he says he will no longer accept the corporate bribes that have funded his worthless political career.

Corrupt Blue Dog David Scott represents a big swath of suburban Atlanta south and west of the the city, just below Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. The biggest counties in the district (GA-13) are Cobb, Clayton, Douglas, Fulton, Henry and Fayette. Trump lost the first 5 and won in Fayette County. The PVI is a healthy, unassailable D+20.

Many people still don't understand what Medicare-- let alone Medicare-for-All-- actually means. But, despite a barrage of propaganda against it from the Sickness-Industrial Complex, Fox News, Hate Talk Radio and the Republican Party, it polls very well.

There seem to be so many Republican members of Congress announcing that they're not running next year-- and some in districts that Democrats can win. Yesterday Kenny Marchant, a conservative Republican who represents a district north of Dallas, said he's had enough. He's the 4th Republican from Texas to tell the NRCC that he's not running again.

The closer we get to victory, the more politicians in the service of  profiteering industries will pitch marketing scams, write Kevin Zeese and  Margaret Flowers. By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers  PopularResistance.org In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare Act. Within a…Read more →