A friend of mine was visiting Paris from North Africa and had an ear infection. He went to the hospital, received treatment, antibiotics, and a follow-up call.

When they accidentally tell the truth. I can almost respect that. As opposed to all of those lying assholes who keep rambling on about “patient centered care”. Particularly the congress men and women who are doctors and still think it’s okay to let people die for want of health care.

You left out “freedom”. When I first heard Ryan claim that having unaffordable and/or shitty insurance coverage or choosing not to have any coverage at all was freedom, I almost threw an ashtray at my TV.

Reminds me of my friend who lives in Paris. And she needed a doctor because she had dangerously low blood pressure. The doctor made a house call. That’s right, THE DOCTOR MADE A HOUSE CALL!

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Of special note: Slovenia. 🌺

Me too. I rely on Medicaid and I have serious pre existing conditions.

Better yet, a picture is worth a thousand words:

How can so many people be so deplorable. Yes, I do not care if you really need your tax cuts or you care about the deficit if you overlook 24 million people without health insurance you are deplorable. I do not care if people call me elitist for calling them on their BS. In fact, since I grew up poor I am actually…

Points for honesty. They should make him the official face of the GOP with that phrase running on loop.

Blessings and faith are super awesome and all, but maybe you should be hashtagging the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (you know, the Italian national health service under which healthcare is considered a right) you crazy, clueless, greed-monster. Because if that kid was American, he’d most likely be dead - but of…

Which is also the reason for their abrupt reversals when something happens to one of theirs (their son comes out of the closet; their cousin is denied healthcare due to a pre-existing condition). Suddenly there is a face on the situation.

Senator Jim Lankford (R-Oklahoma) was speaking to Chuck Todd about the CBO report this afternoon. When Todd asked him about CBO’s esitimate that 23 Million people would lose healthcare under Trumpcare, his response was (and I had to rewind to make sure I heard it correctly) “That really doesn’t bother me”

Hey now, numbers and data are the devil’s work. Or the work of those coastal elites. Or both.

That’s really what is is. They love the idea of condescending to help a person, getting all the self-gratitude for this righteous thing they’ve done - even while they do other stuff that harms tons of faceless people they’ll never meet.

One death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a statistic. So the Trumps are happily preventing one tragedy and promoting “statistics.”

If I said “PootMcFruitcakes is misleading everyone by telling them he has a PhD” I have told a lie about you. True, you actually don’t have a PhD. But you also never told anyone you did. So my statement misleads people into thinking you lied about it, which is itself defamation. People who read my statement aren’t…

the magazine. knew. that. what. the “tipster”. shared. with. them. was. false.

How is this difficult to get?

the journalist KNEW that the claims were false