Trump’s Phony (and Dangerous) War on Coronavirus

Are you safe from coronavirus? We’d like to think so. We’re the largest most advanced economy in the world and Capitalism is supposed to...

Trump Health Care Plan: Wheat for the Rich; Chaff for the...

On December 22, 2017, amid much breast-beating and boasting of the greatest political victories of all time, surpassing Harry Truman and the Republican Demi-God,...

Trump Cuts Medicare and Social Security in 2020 Budget.

If re-elected, President Donald Trump has budgeted to cut Medicare by $848 billion. He will cut Medicaid by $1.5 Trillion and cut $25 billion...

How  “Medicare for All” Can Easily Be Funded by the Super-Rich. 

Medicare for All is a plan to bring health care to everyone in the United States, primarily to citizens but also, in some form, accessible to non-citizens, such as exchange workers and students and perhaps in some form of payment to non citizens resident aliens, pending naturalization.

The President Lies to Americans About Health Care

byJoseph O’ShaughnessyThe President went to national newspapers today and blatantly lied to the American people.It is the most outrageous thing I have ever seen...

Don’t play the Trump Distraction Game. Focus on Congress.

We're fighting the wrong wars with Donald Trump in particular and with Republicans in general.It's not about refugees coming to America. Banning immigrants without...

Health Care Disaster Is Just the End of a Long, Long...

The Republican Senate, House, President Trump (sounds so ridiculous!) and the Billionaires have written you out of health care. And they will do more...cut...

Mitch McConnell Wants to Destroy American Health Care

The Republican leader in the Senate is trying to rush through a secret health care proposal, bring it to the floor of the Senate...

The Obama Presidency, Looking Back

It’s been a quarter of a year now, a little more, since the end of the Obama Presidency. The contrast, and the events that...

Warning: Health Care Disaster Looming

Here's the problem and I'm going right at it because we don't have much time.Congress is about to change the rules on health care....

How Republicans Tried to Kill Obamacare and Give Us the Cheap...

We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.

Donald Trump Is No Populist.

by Joseph D. O'ShaughnessyI normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...

Should We Be Taking Michael Moore Seriously?

Have you seen “Where to Invade Next,” the title of the latest film by gadfly documentarian, Michael Moore? I guess his films are supposed...

How Paul Ryan Plans to Take Away Your Health Care

Paul Ryan and the Republican/Fascist leaders in Congress want to repeal Obamacare and leave you with the same kind of health care you had...

The Bad News and the Good News

The bad news is here. And it will keep coming. Trump is elected and we see already what he has in store for us....