I am currently in the hospital in a country that has universal healthcare and i am so happy that I was here and not in the US when I got so sick this weekend, I called an ambulance to take me to the emergency room. What I thought was nothing too serious has the doctors advising that I stay until the end of the week so…

Yeah, but that’s not the point that people are trying to make when they call it Romneycare. The idea is to underscore the fact that it’s a plan that has conservative roots, and was designed to help protect insurance company profits.

Back when this story first broke, Popbitch reported that they were upset at the topless photos, but vastly relieved no pictures of Kate or William smoking had come out. Sounds about right. There have been topless photos of British royalty since the 80's with Lady Helen Windsor.

It feels like a case of Prisoner’s Dilemma. We’re all better off if we can commit to single payer, and yet people are too concerned about their own perceived piece of the pie to see it. Having your neighbor’s home go into foreclosure because they can’t cover their medical bills is bad for everyone. People who don’t…

Yeah. The thing is, single-payer is cheaper for society overall—I think there’s a way to present that so it’s appealing to fiscally conservative voters. There’s also just the basic compassion factor. We just need to beat all the scary stories about rationing and inferior care. (I think Bernie Sanders actually had the…

Great Value Brand sisters....Hollering at my desk. #savage

Can we please discuss that Taylor Swift did not attend? I can only assume she didn’t want to be part of the gala co-chaired by Katy Perry.

Wow. Somebody who was negatively affected by the ACA and is actually sane, reasonable, and mature in their response to the impact? Are you sure you even exist?

Obamacare is not sustainable, but I am still happy that the Democrats pushed it through because now the Republicans can’t just take it away and leave people with nothing. Single payer seems to be the only logical replacement but I don’t see the Republicans ever supporting that. I don’t know what happens in the…

I was very privileged in my health care for a long time. My husband is in a labor union and had was is considered a Cadillac health plan. Unfortunately some rules in ACA would have imposed addiontal taxes on these types of health plans in a few years. This was meant to affect high income executive types and blue…

I have nationalised health care where I live now and couldn’t be happier with it. People see it as a public service (like the fire dept or police) which is how it should be. I feel sick even thinking about taking my kids back to the US just because of the healthcare situation.

Adding my Asthma self in that wheezy fuck him. Oh, & of course, my brother with Cystic Fibrosis. (He does very well, but his medical bills can get out of control). Good to know that it’s his fault he was born with CF & should be forced to financially pay for it indefinitely...Luckily he gets to stay on my parents…

It’s all Reagan’s fault. His pre-Dickens worldview that poor folks are poor because they are lazy and shiftless caught on, and now it has spread like a fungus through the body politic. Now, 30 years later, these Ayn Rand cosplayers dominate the political landscape and spread their “just world” hypothesis over…

Yup. My recurring kidney stones are totally my fault (they’re a physical manifestation of my evil feminist ways, after all).

Hey - Representative Horror Show. I run 16 miles a week in the woods, I mountain bike, I do yoga, meditation and dance. I’m also a trail guide. I don’t consume dairy or sugar or wheat. I eat a green salad every single blessed night for dinner. Now for the fun part: I have severe asthma, dry eye syndrome, sinusitis…

“I would never wish debilitating sickness on anyone, but in his case I’ll make an exception.

Wow. What a fucking turd of a person. I know plenty of people that were healthy and did all of the right things who now find themselves chronically ill. Accidents happen. You have bad genes. It’s expensive to medically treat these problems. But for many with these chronic health conditions, it also means that…

The chyron makes a lot of sense given what he’s saying...

You can live a healthy life and still get cancer. Or MS or ALS, or several other diseases. Or, you know, get in a car accident.

Lets all be friends everyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re a mass murderer, a white supremacist, a human rights abuser, or a strongman with a nuclear arsenal. This president wants to meet you and thinks he can get along with you....