By Max Richter | – ( Commondreams.org ) – You may wonder why former President Harry Truman is sitting close by while President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare and Medicaid into law in the iconic 1965 photograph. Or why Harry Truman received the first-ever Medicare card. The reason is that Truman first proposed a Medicare-like […]
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Social Safety Net
Investing in the Pentagon, Not Our Children
( Tomdispatch.com ) – A kid spit on my husband Patrick yesterday. That sentence just keeps running through my head. The student was up on a windowsill at school and, when instructed to come down, he spit. It’s part of Patrick’s job not to take that — the most personal of insults and an almost […]
Why Are We Torching Our Best Tool to End Child Poverty?
By Clara Moore | – ( Inequality.org) – I’ve just picked her up from the homeschool co-op that supplements the first-grade lessons we’ve been doing at home, and we’re hanging out at the park. This is my favorite time of the week, watching her play with other kids. But I’m also remembering my own childhood […]
If the US Gov’t Can Swing into Action on Covid, why Can’t it provide us Universal Health Care?
( Othwerwords.org ) – There has been a Jekyll and Hyde quality to American health care over the past two years. One the one hand, the federal government has been actively intervening to help people avoid COVID-19 or recover from it. On the other, it’s standing by as Americans struggle with other ailments, exposing the […]
Women have had the Right to Choose in America for a Large Part of its History
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – Did you know? …Abortion has been legal for a large part of US history and was significant in the history of women’s reproductive health care: Not a single state banned abortion in our country’s first century. Women used abortion-inducing herbs and medications described in early pharmacological literature and […]
Stop Wall Street from Grabbing Traditional Medicare
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services “Innovation Center” recently announced that by 2030, they will move all traditional Medicare enrollees into a “care relationship” with a 3rd party private, for profit middleman, labeled a “Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) without seniors’ knowledge or consent, and without Congressional oversight. […]
Social Security Versus National Security: Whose Entitlement Really Makes Us Safer?
( Tomdispatch.com) – “Biden’s doing better than I thought he would.” “Yeah. Vaccinations, infrastructure, acknowledging racism in policing. A lot of pieces of the Green New Deal, without calling it that. The child subsidies. It’s kind of amazing.” “But on the military–” “Yeah, same old, same old.” As my friends and I have noticed, President […]
Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — Distinguished economist Michael Hudson writes that by “conquering the brains of a country by shaping how people think, you can twist their view into ‘unreality economics’ and make them think you are there to help them and not to take money out of them, then you’ve got them […]
Public option in Biden plan could change the face of US health care
By Michael Williams | – President Joe Biden issued 10 executive orders to fight COVID-19 on his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2021. Among those orders: Speed up vaccine production, expand testing, support the safe reopening of schools and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care and treatment. As a physician and health […]
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