Back in May, Trump pushed through a HHS administrative rule that permits medical workers to deny services based on their personal religious beliefs. As that NPR article suggests, this was unusually egregious even for a Thing Trump Did. The rule would have permitted doctors to
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By Donna Smith Fifteen days from now I will know what it’s like to have Medicare coverage. For the past 64 years and 11 months, I have been at the mercy of a for-profit insurance and health system that doesn’t forgive illness or injury and
Call private health insurance costs “taxes in everything but name.” Analysis: Americans already pay a "gigantic" hidden health-care tax, economists say. The question of who will foot the bill for Medicare-for-all is almost beside the point. https://t.co/12fott4Bqf — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 16, 2019
In solidarity, Dr Bill Honigman and Debra Schrishuhn for Alan, Mike F, Janis, Mike H, Dan, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA National Team Healthcare Is A Human Right! Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, also called Native American Day (SD) or Discoverers’ Day (HI), officially celebrated
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Onward, Melinda and Brittany, Medicare for All Resolutions On tonight’s webinar, we’ll hear from heroes in our movement and plan for the upcoming Medicare for All Week of Action. We’re sharing the information below from our allies at Public Citizen. Tonight, we’ll hear from two
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What happens when clinics providing healthcare services to women close? Among other things, American women will needlessly die. That’s the horrifying conclusion from a recent study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology. Designed to gauge the impact of the closures of 100 women’s
By Donna Smith, Executive Director – Progressive Democrats of America On Tuesday’s webinar, we’ll hear from heroes in our movement and plan for the upcoming Medicare for All Week of Action. We’re sharing the information below from our allies at Public Citizen. On Tuesday, we’ll
I’m for Medicare for All. However, the public option is being touted by some of the Democratic presidential candidates as the alternative to Medicare for All. I’m not going to recount all the arguments being made against Medicare for All. Instead, I’m going to focus on
We can’t allow this question to stand anymore. We just can’t. “How will you pay for Medicare for All/universal health care?” It’s fatuous. It’s fake. It’s a donation in-kind to the insurance industry. I don’t have a health care plan — and I’m certainly no
First up, a hopeful sign from the Democrats in Kentucky governor’s race: I got canvassed by someone for the Beshear campaign. What is so great about that? Glad you asked. It means that the state Democrats are taking this race seriously, along with the other
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Short Summary A large majority of respondents believed current diagnosis rates are under-diagnosing women relative to men Respondents tended to cite social expectations and biased diagnosis tools for this The online autistic community seems fairly diverse in terms of gender identity and age, and in
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I am sure my next few words may come as a surprise to many of you, but the President has a few good ideas; Correcting the imbalance with our foreign trade partners, specifically the Chinese, has bipartisan agreement. Extracting troops from 18 years of war
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In solidarity, Mike Hersh for Alan, Shayna, Deb, Kimberly, Bryan, Mike F., Dr. Bill, Dan, and Janis—your PDA national team. Join PDA Opposing Horrible “Trade” Deal Revisions Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) opposes so-called “free trade” deals that sell out our environmental, consumer, and
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