Archive for the 'health care' Category
Pennsylvania’s Shame: One More Step Toward Gilead
Kermit Gosnell, and the opportunists that followed. For Shame, Pennsylvania. You’ll come to regret this day.
Read More..>>Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan: Caught on Tape Conspiring to Undermine Medicare
I learned back in 1992 that Bill Clinton was a lying piece of shit, not a progressive, and barely a Democrat.
From the description:
Leaked cell phone footage of Bill Clinton cozying up to Paul Ryan
The day after the stunning upset in the special congressional election in upstate New York, Rep. Paul Ryan is a man under [...]
Why is Earned Sick Time Even Controversial??
My friend Lauren’s working on a campaign to guarantee earned sick time for more than 200,000 working Philadelphians who have to either go to work sick or lose wages. I don’t understand why this is even controversial: it just makes common sense:
Research shows that employers who offer paid sick days have higher productivity and [...]
Why I Drink
Yesterday while tuning into a few minutes of the view from nowhere (which really does have its own insidious point of view), I listened to the extremely-wealthy-born-into-money Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Cokie Roberts opining on those simply awful budget busting benefits (ahem) that public sector unions have. “Some of this is really outrageous,” [...]
Read More..>>Extorting Sick People
This piece, via Susie really hit home for me.
Over the weekend, we Tarts learned the shocking news that one of our most loyal backbloggers and friends, Melissa Mia Hall, aka MMH, had died suddenly and somewhat mysteriously.
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And then we learned the truth which turned out to be far worse, far more humbling, than our conjecture. [...]
Shorter Pat Toomey: Sick Children Don’t Deserve Coverage, and I Hope Your Kids Die.
Seriously, that’s what he means when he criticizes S-CHIP, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. not only does he want your kid to die, he wants YOU to go bankrupt paying for treatments you can’t afford out of pocket.
he’s a fucking piece of shit, and if i saw him immolated in flames, i wouldn’t so [...]
The Next Time Someone Tells Me “There Were Never Enough Votes for a Public Option”…
I am going to shove this in that person’s face:
In his book, Daschle reveals that after the Senate Finance Committee and the White House convinced hospitals to to accept $155 billion in payment reductions over ten years on July 8, the hospitals and Democrats operated under two “working assumptions.” “One was that the [...]
Bar AIDS: Drink Away the Virus!
Cross-posted at Suburban Guerrilla
I remember this commercial, which appeared about a week before the AIDS crisis exploded.
Action AIDS is one of the many non-profit human services organizations in Philadelphia, and their name is pretty self-explanatory. Like most non-profits, Action AIDS is under the gun due to the economic calamity we’re living in. (And [...]
Woman is the Nigger of the World
I think this is an appropriate enough video to introduce the latest in hope and change, received in a fundraising email from the otherwise odious sellout on reproductive rights, NARAL:
I have an urgent update about the new health-care law.
To our dismay, the Obama administration just announced it will exclude abortion coverage in the temporary health-insurance [...]
Shorter Specter, Casey, Fattah, Sestak, Brady, Schwartz, and the Rest of the House: If We Don’t See a Problem, It Doesn’t Exist! (UPDATED)
UPDATE BELOW
Via NYCEve:
On August 4th in Washington D.C. the National Association of Free Clinics holds a Free Clinic at the Walter E Washington Convention Center in Washington DC.
An invitation from Nicole Lamoureux the executive director of the Free Clinic Association went to every member of Congress and the United States Senate. 535 in total. 435 [...]
