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Senate health care bill would pull the lifeline of the chronically ill

July 19, 2017

By Stephanie Land

This article originally appeared in the Missoulian. Jamison Hill hasn’t been able to get out of bed in two and a half years. For 18 months, Jamison was too sick…

Americans Pay The Price When Our Political Institutions Erode

June 28, 2017

By Thomas Kennedy

This article first appeared on the Huffington Post. It is said that compromise is the cornerstone of democracy. If that is indeed the case, American democracy is seriously faltering. The…

The Republican Health Care Plan is an Attack on People Like Me

June 23, 2017

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

This article first appeared on The Progressive. How many Americans will be impacted by the GOP’s Obamacare repeal legislation, drafted under veils of secrecy? How many will suffer the consequences?…

GOP Lawmakers Could Not Be Bothered To Read Their Own Health Care Bill

May 16, 2017

By Thomas Kennedy

Seriously? They voted on a bill that would hurt 24 million Americans, but that they never actually read?

Trump Voters and I Have One Thing in Common: We’re Scared of Losing Medicaid

January 15, 2017

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

I recently read about a county in Kentucky that is typical of the kinds of depressed white communities that have dominated the news since Trump’s election. Owsley County is 83…

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