Best of luck to your mother. But at least those of us in this country will die knowing we are penniless, sick, and most importantly of all: Free!

I work two jobs (neither of which will hire me more than 75% in order to avoid providing health insurance). My rent has gone up 40% in the last 3 years.

Brit living in the US here.

Reek, Reek, it rhymes with weak.

Libby, this is a fantastic article and I am glad your mother is doing better. I also find my self falling into professional analysis when life happens. While it can be a tad annoying to my wife, it’s helped me to better understand my profession and the world (I’m a political scientist/Comparative poltical economist)

The problem is, those routine checkups are where the lowest costs are. Outside of people who don’t use their insurance at all, that’s probably where insurers make their money. It’s the big things that they lose out on. So if we do, say Medicare for all, at the PCP level, private insurance would skyrocket because all…

Do they not have flu vaccines where you live?

My father had the aggressive lung cancer and by the time they caught it he was already terminal. After a lifetime of manual labour work, he didn’t have a lot in the way of savings and lived modestly with his partner. In the US, he would have died fairly quickly as he wouldn’t have been able to afford treatment. As he…

The medical industry in America, and that’s what it is and ALL that it is, is literally a crime against humanity.

I’m going to blow American people’s minds:

Treason Don

Sadly, Donny sees the world through orange coloured glasses.

Chump was probably working out whether he can maybe hide out in Russia when shit hits the fan.

I am FURIOUS with even well-meaning members of Congress playing politics with this shit. He will have his fucking meeting, most of the Democrats (but not all, of course!) will shout into the wind, the Republicans will stay silent save for a few “very concerned” ones, and Trump will fucking continue to sell our nation…

Nope. The KGB (now FSB) is the main intelligence service for Russia, while the GRU is foreign military intelligence.

“...formerly known as the GRU.”

There’s no conceivable reason for a private meeting between Trump and Putin without advisers or a record of what was said, except corruption. None. How can we ignore the evidence we already have, clear motive, opportunity and actions, consistent with Trump being a Russian asset, and allow him to occupy the WH and our…

Which by every measure they are because Democrats are absolutely gutless in attacking Republicans for their outright traitorous deeds.

Regardless of absolutely everything the clear, sobering fact is that the Republican Establishment not only encouraged all of this, they helped sustain it and give it a platform.

Trump being a Russian mole is seeming less fantastical every day.