If you can’t stand for your principals then how can you stand for ANYTHING at all? At some point you have to draw the line: you MUST say “This far and NO further.” If you cannot, then nothing will stop the other side from just continuing on without pause. We can’t stop them, but each of our representatives should be…

What part of “powerless to stop them” do any of you not understand?

You know what I hear when I hear you right-wing Democratic apologists? “Whine, whine, whine”.

The Dems could’ve slowed down the process on each by calling for procedural sidebars and running every bit of procedural frippery by the book.

I’m not sure why the idea of crafting a long-term strategy is such a hard pill to swallow. Rolling over has done Dems no favors. I mean, how have they benefited at all in these times? Putting their foot down and making a record upon which they can rely later on isn’t crazy and not rolling over on people like Ryan…

Choosing a screen name which evokes memories of a guy who fell to his death from the rafters of a hockey arena in Kansas City actually lines up pretty well with how bad a take this is and also is a pretty good metaphor for the party itself.

It’s simple, he’s the minority leader because they don’t win more elections because he’s the minority leader.

Why Are Democrats Poised to Let 7 Trump-Nominated Judges Slide to Confirmation?

This is  appalling. So sad for Todd and his family. I’m so grateful that we have the NHS here. My Grandma died of cancer, but she died at home, in comfort with great nurses that helped my mum care for her. Everyone should be allowed to die with dignity.

The problem in my mother’s case was that she hadn’t even been properly diagnosed before the Medicaid hustle began. She went to the ER on a Monday morning and on Tuesday morning the social worker’s FIRST WORDS to me were “what’s her monthly income?”. It took three ER visits and a stint in rehab (20 days) before I…

As someone who is currently on a trache and working i can basically say that disabled people in the US are fucked royally by everybody involved in the healthcare industry from the companies to the government. I’m not saying that some of the people arent nice or unhelpful or anything but for-profit healthcare sucks…

I work at a large disability nonprofit in Tennessee. We opted out of the Medicaid expansion. We were already a horrible state for the disabled community. We have now become even worse. I field calls weekly from people who are quite literally dying. They are dying simply because they don't have money. Do you know what…

I had to deal with Medicaid when my elderly mother became disabled. Literally the only thing they were interested in was looting her for everything she had. The hospital “social workers” I dealt with were nothing more than Medicaid shills, mostly concerned about the “assessed value” of her property, her benefits and…

This is just the sister system of the for-profit prison complex. They need bodies to keep it going, but not bodies that cost too much money. I could launch into a long, personal story about how our former governor was in bed with the for-profit prison and half-way house corporations and increased incarceration rates…

Medicine in America is one big scam. Literally a crime against humanity.

Remember to vote in November. It won’t solve anything, but it’ll at least be a start. We can go from there.

And yet somehow with your father getting treatment for five primary cancers, your per capita healthcare expenditures are still cheaper than America’s by about 35-40%.

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…

“But, but, but...Muslims are taking over neighborhoods and forcing Whites to pray to Allah before crossing Antifa Rd!”

No spitballing necessary. The OECD has the numbers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita