Rep. Raul Labrador [R-Westeros] (Twitter: @Raul_Labrador, DC: (202) 225-6611; Meridien: (208) 888-3188; Lewiston (208) 743-1388; Coeur d’Alene (208) 667-0127), to a constituent who was angry he’d voted to take away healthcare from 22,000,000 Americans, dooming some to premature deaths: “That line is so indefensible. Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.”
A peer-reviewed, high-impact factor study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that being uninsured increases your risk of death by 25%.
If patriotism means anything, it means sacrificing for the common good, participating in the public good. Childless Americans pay taxes for schools so children are educated. Americans who live close to their work pay taxes for roads and bridges so those who live farther away can get to work. Americans with secure jobs pay into unemployment insurance so those who lose their jobs have some income until they find another.
Robert Reich
If patriotism means anything, it means sacrificing for the common good, participating in the public good.
Medication is often stigmatized and that really bothers me. I’ve taken meds on and off for years to supplement my focus and combat my anxiety. I’ve adapted because of prescriptions. None of us are weak for this, we’re simply helping our brains get the chemicals they need to function better.
William J. Hager of Port St. Lucie, Florida is a 86 year old man who confessed to shooting his 76 year old wife, Carolyn Hager, in her sleep, because the couple could no longer afford her medications, leaving her in pain and wanting to die.
America is the only industrialized country in the world without universal health care.
Mr Hager surrendered himself to the local law and expects to go to prison.
I have a morbid fascination watching how many groups the Republicans can alienate and still keep going: Latinos, immigrants, pro-choice advocates, LGBTQ people, Hawaii, Muslims, and now anybody with health problems.
Later this week, Congress is expected to approve a spending measure to provide $120 million to protect Trump and his family — that reportedly includes money for the Secret Service to rent space at Trump Tower.
According to the New York Times, an additional $23 million is earmarked for the costs of outfitting Trump Tower, the office and residential building owned by the president, with “the necessary equipment and personnel, as well as to rent space inside the building for agency personnel.”
The cash Congress is devoting to renting Secret Service space in Trump Tower also fans the flames of concern that Trump is profiting off the presidency. Read more (5/2/17)
Fucking piece of shit grifter continues to transfer public money into his personal accounts and Congress is complicit because nothing fucking matters.
I have a morbid fascination watching how many groups the Republicans can alienate and still keep going: Latinos, immigrants, pro-choice advocates, LGBTQ people, Hawaii, Muslims, and now anybody with health problems.
