Author: KJ McElrath

McConnell Just Voted to End Debate on a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Welfare Check for Big Pharma

McConnell Just Voted to End Debate on a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Welfare Check for Big Pharma

Posted by | Aug 3, 2017 | , |

We may have saved the Affordable Care Act – for now – but rest assured the GOP Congress will continue to do everything in its power to screw the American people for the benefit of for-profit health care and the pharmaceutical industry. The latest: a cloture filing by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ending debate on the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 – part of which will hand over $11.6 billion to Big Pharma. At the heart of this boondoggle is an attachment to the bill, known as the “Orphan Product Extensions Now Accelerating Cures and Treatments,” or OPEN-ACT....

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The Children Who Admire Trump as a Great Role Model

The Children Who Admire Trump as a Great Role Model

Posted by | Aug 1, 2017 | |

Trump has long been an admirer of infamous mid-20th Century dictator Adolf Hitler, and has been attempting to use that criminal’s work, Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) as a playbook. Fortunately, as Thom Hartmann has periodically pointed out, Americans have had far more experience with liberty and democracy than did Germans of the 1930s. As a result, Trump’s hard-right, quasi-fascist agenda hasn’t been going over so well among the majority. However, there is a disturbing undercurrent that bodes ill for the future if it spreads: the brainwashing and indoctrination of children. This isn’t a new phenomenon among Trump’s sycophants and...

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Spiteful Trump Still Determined to Destroy the Affordable Care Act – And He Could Do It

Spiteful Trump Still Determined to Destroy the Affordable Care Act – And He Could Do It

Posted by | Jul 31, 2017 | , , |

In the wake of the GOP’s spectacular failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act last week, Trump went on one of his endless Twitter rants, declaring that he would cut off the subsidy payments that help to offset insurer’s cost – which in turn, makes health coverage more affordable for everyone, including members of Congress and their staff members. Over the weekend, he threatened : “If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!” His Twitter rants continued today: “If ObamaCare is hurting people, &...

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Recent Medical Study Finds 99 Out of 100 NFL Players Suffer Traumatic Brain Damage

Recent Medical Study Finds 99 Out of 100 NFL Players Suffer Traumatic Brain Damage

Posted by | Jul 28, 2017 | , |

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, was first identified in the late 1920s among professional boxers. Called dementia pugilistica by the medical profession, it was colloquially known as “punch drunk syndrome.” Since that time, the condition – resulting from repeated blows or impacts to the head – has been identified among military personnel, victims of domestic violence, individual suffering from mental disorders who engage in head banging behaviors, and a wide range of athletes playing team sports. Overwhelmingly, the athletes who suffer the most are professional football players. A recent study coming out of the Boston University School of Medicine...

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Senator Schumer: “Single Payer [Health Care] is On The Table”

Senator Schumer: “Single Payer [Health Care] is On The Table”

Posted by | Jul 27, 2017 | , |

The dawn has been slow in breaking for the Democratic Party, but beautiful to behold. After years of compromise, fence-sitting, backing down, hesitation and all-around indecisiveness – all of which contributed to Democratic losses this past November – Senator Chuck Schumer of New York announced publicly this week that a single-payer health care system will be part of his party’s agenda heading into next year’s mid-term elections. Schumer’s announcement, made earlier this week on ABC News, follows a statement made by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts last month. Referring to the Affordable Care Act, she said: “President Obama tried...

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