Thursday, October 29, 2026

Tag: Obamacare

Republican’s treacherous health care plan: betrayal of the American people

What kind of human beings would do this to their fellow human beings?

Good news on Social Security and Medicare? Reports show just that

This is a good point to keep in mind as the Republicans try to dismantle Obamacare.

The Senate GOP health care bill is lethal for the poor...

The fight against the Senate’s deadly health care bill must also include the demand for a single-payer system.The fight against the Senate’s deadly health care bill must also include the demand for a single-payer system.

Big Pharma gets $28 billion tax break in GOP health plan

Big Pharma has been getting fat off American consumers and public health systems for years.

Bernie Sanders: Secrecy surrounding GOP health care bill is ‘completely unacceptable’

Sanders continues to call for transparency and for Democrats to “do everything they can” to keep the bill from passing.

Why Trumpcare is giving Senate Republicans heartburn

Senate Republicans won’t get near a single payer. So they’ll have to strengthen the Affordable Care Act.

Obamacare is actually working

The law has flaws, but more Americans are insured than ever – and insurers are still turning a healthy profit.

Koch caucus continues its assault on healthcare

Three interconnected stories – of the Koch brothers, the Freedom Caucus, and the Affordable Care Act – paint the larger picture of money’s corrupting role in American politics.

The GOP crusade against health care is class warfare

The GOP's attempt to destroy Obamacare was a raid by the filthy rich on the slim resources of the poorer neighborhoods.

The feuding kleptocrats

The kleptocrats, in the end, have only one real enemy: us.

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Largest U.S. corporations paid 10.4% federal tax in 2025, ITEP finds

The study of 706 companies counted 114 that paid no current federal income tax and $198 billion in subsidies from rates below 21%

Insurers drop Medicare Advantage plans for 1 million seniors

KFF counted 193 counties with no Medicare Advantage drug plan open to general enrollment in 2027, up from 123 this year

Gaza newborn dies of hypothermia as Israel continues to block lifesaving aid

A two-week-old infant’s death amid winter storms underscores mounting warnings from UN agencies that blocked shelter, destroyed hospitals, and widespread hunger are making exposure deadly for Gaza’s youngest residents.
An American mink. Photo: Patrick Reijnders / CC BY-SA 3.0

Bird flu keeps spreading on a Utah mink farm as officials hold off on...

Seven mink have tested positive on C&T Fenn Farms, and no federal rules cover sick mink, ProPublica reports; Utah has issued a verbal hold instead of a formal quarantine.
Cleta Mitchell. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement

Conservative powerbroker Cleta Mitchell has raised a grassroots army to transform American voting systems and worked closely with the administration to enact her plans. No one besides Trump himself has done more to overhaul elections.