Senator Elizabeth Warren released her proposal for universal child care in the United States as part of her presidential campaign platform, so I thought I’d do a little reading on how the policy has played out elsewhere. There is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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When John Conyers, a representative from Michigan who has fought for the rights and betterment of American citizens for decades, introduced a bill to create a single payer health care system last January, few people paid attention. He got the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When The Senate Majority Leader moved deliberations on health care legislation to a series of closed door sessions, did anyone seriously think the result would be a plan that anyone would like? Beyond that forgone conclusion (“no”), there are others:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paul Ryan got all the votes necessary to push through his repeal-and-replace legislation to destroy the Affordable Care Act, but only by making enough concessions to convince the Freedom (sic) Caucus that the American Health Care Act was cruel enough[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Obamacare is the law of the land,” Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, Representative of Wisconsin’s 1st district, and libertarian cosplayer announced on Friday. Despite his best (?) efforts, he could not craft a law to replace the Affordable Care[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, there was no way I was gonna let that one go. Last week Utah Congressperson Jason Chaffetz hauled out an old talking point to shame poor and elderly people out of expecting affordable health care (or, gasp, free health[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was listening to an NPR story about the debate among Congressional Republicans over plans to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare.” One faction wants to replace it with the Paul Ryan plan, another wants to scrap it all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can read more comics like this at the Fetch page. This week’s strip stars an old friend of mine, Barry Deutsch. We often have conversations like this, where we try to figure out how much we should expect American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s strip stars an old friend of mine, Barry Deutsch. We often have conversations like this, where we try to figure out how much we should expect American society to support the people who comprise it. The Democratic side[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…