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February 2020

February 22, 2020

John Oliver on Medicare for All

It is strange to live in a time where the best teachers of civics are...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Heartwarming stories

I'm ambivalent about a lot of heartwarming stories. No. Not the one that read "High...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

The Problem with the Libertarian View of Universal Health Care

...is perfectly illustrated by the testimony of this dying man to Congress that GoFundMe is...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

The Real Death Panel Party

As has now become obvious, the standard strategy of the GOP Christianist Cult of Trump...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

The GOP gets back to the business of trying to kill the weak, poor, and elderly

It's only fitting that this pack of clowns (who are less like Bozo and more...

September 19, 2017

Manchild Threatens World War III

Having spent last week facing calls for impeachment from his former fan base, Trump tries...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

How Crisis Pregnancy Center Clients…

...rely on Medicaid. That would be the Medicaid that millions of "prolife" conservative Christians eagerly...

July 18, 2017

GOPirates who can’t shoot straight…

...fail in their effort to loot the poor and despoil them of health care on...

July 17, 2017

The Great Contradiction of the Prolife Right

A consistent life ethic simply has to mean support for a social safety net for...

July 14, 2017

Catholics and Lutherans Stand Together

in the "ecumenism of the trenches" to oppose the Culture of Death that seeks to...

July 06, 2017

Pregnancy, C-Sections, and Postpartum Depression

...Are Preexisting Conditions in New American Healthcare Act That's because the unborn are regarded only...

July 05, 2017

Let’s Make the Desperately Sick Beg for Their Lives!

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Health Care Train Wreck

Perhaps it's time to ask "Given that this plan will actually increase abortions by denying...

June 28, 2017

Good News! We still live in a democracy!

...and your voice still matters, especially to a Senate that is fearful of a massive...

June 24, 2017

About Half of Births are Financed by Medicaid

The bloody-handed GOP "health care" plan will end that, rob the middle class and the...

June 23, 2017

Bishops say Senate Health Care Plan…

will "wreak havoc" on families. This has nothing to do with health. It is a...

June 22, 2017

How Prolife Can You Get?

Protestors in wheelchairs are being removed from Mitch McConnell's office. #HealthcareBill pic.twitter.com/oed19mawu9— Holly O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan)...

June 21, 2017

When the Libertarian Mask Slips and the Eugenicist is Revealed

Had a typical conversation with a Libertarian about the question of health care as a...

June 12, 2017

Please help a woman raise $25,000 for surgery

Go here to help. She has raised less than a third of what she need in...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

Jimmy Kimmel offers “apology” for cruelly defending sick children against poor defenseless GOP

It is one of the strange poetries of our time that, as we are ruled...

May 08, 2017

Health Care is a Right

The Church teaches that it is. Multiple magisterial sources reiterate this fact. Therefore some guy...

May 05, 2017

Pre-existing conditions

From Senator Sherrod Brown, here is what the Kill the Weak Act passed by the...

May 03, 2017

Jimmy Kimmel’s Baby and Authentic Prolife Witness

Jimmy Kimmel told the story of his baby's illness and took the occasion to plead...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

Conservative-in-exile David Frum…

describes how the Party of Personal Responsibility authored its own defeat. Ryan, at least, had...

March 25, 2017

The Holy See sez…

Universal access to medicines is a moral obligation. Meanwhile, Paul Ryan, deeply anti-Christian enemy of...

March 24, 2017

Yay!

The Party of Trump's attempt on my life and on the lives of several of...

March 24, 2017

The GOP’s Health Care Bill…

...is an act of malice. Yes. And cruelty. And incompetence. And folly. And greed. And...

March 23, 2017

And Jesus Said Unto Paul of Ryan…

Nicholas Kristof on the bizarre funhouse parody of the gospel that Ryan and the rest...

March 23, 2017

The Right to Healthcare is Owed…

...not earned.  Why?  For the same reason that a baby has a right to be...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

A former health insurance CEO…

...tells us what the Obamacare repeal will do. Doug O'Brien and I be talking about this...

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