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Obama Signs Bill Preventing Insurance Companies From Hiking Premiums For Millions Of Americans
President Obama just did something spectacular for millions of Americans: he signed a bill that would prevent healthcare insurance premiums from increasing in 2016. The bill is called the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act, which will keep premiums for approximately 3 million people from going up next year. The bipartisan healthcare bill was signed on Wednesday and surprisingly…
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Pharma CEO Admits To Price-Gouging The Sick So Shareholders Can Get Richer: That's Capitalism!
The unethical greed of pharmaceutical companies has recently taken center stage in public discourse following the decision of vulture capitalist Martin Shkreli’s decision to jack up the price of a vital AIDS drug by 5,000% (which he has still failed to rescind), but the problem extends much further than the widely reviled “pharma bro.” Democratic…
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Republicans Finally Admit Planned Parenthood Did Nothing Wrong, Investigation Was A Sham
After months of hurling vile slander and gruesome accusations at Planned Parenthood, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) announced that his investigation of the beleaguered healthcare provider has, predictably, turned up no wrongdoing of any sort.
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Breaking: McCarthy Quit House Speaker's Race Over Alleged Affair With Fellow Congresswoman
After a day of tumultuous uncertainty, bombshell allegations are emerging regarding California Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s abrupt withdrawal from the race for the newest king of the rabble Speaker of the House. New details indicate that the staunch anti-LGBT and “sanctity of marriage” advocate may be having an extramarital affair with North Carolina Republican Representative Renee Ellmers. The…
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Republican Gubernatorial Candidate: Let's Drug Test Seniors On Medicare
The Republican campaign to paint recipients of public support as drug abusers and “moochers” has gone entirely off the rails. Kentucky Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin has just proposed drug testing Medicare and Medicaid recipients – demanding that we drug test senior citizens before we pay back the benefits that they have paid for in taxes…
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Republican Congressman: My Parents Died Because Planned Parenthood Receives Funding
According to Republican Jason Chaffetz, whose mother died of breast cancer, Planned Parenthood, which provides free breast cancer screenings, should be defunded.
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House Republicans Willing To Let 46 Million Americans Go Hungry Over Planned Parenthood Fight
Republican religious extremism in America is reaching new heights as it moves farther and farther away from reality. It’s now threatening to take 46 million low-income Americans hostage – leaving them to go hungry by denying them food stamp benefits, starting October 1. Nothing exists in isolation, and the Republican threat to shut the government over…
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Bernie To Greedy Price-Gouging Hedge-Funder: I'm Coming For You!
The costs of pharmaceutical drugs has been catapulted to the forefront of public discussion with the New York Times’ expose on vulture capitalist Martin Shkreli. His decision to buy the rights on an old drug and then raise the price by 5000% sparked a tsunami of outrage across social media and the political sphere, bringing to the national…
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Republican Misogynists Dealt Huge Defeat As 20-Week Abortion Ban Fails
Thankfully, even if any of these archaic, misogynist measures make it to President Obama’s desk, he will veto them.
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Hedge Fund Manager Buys Rights To Vital AIDS Drug, Jacks Up Price By 5,000%, Says It's A Great Deal
Selling life-saving pharmaceuticals for a profit has always been a distasteful venture; it raises all sorts of uncomfortable ethical questions about how much we really value a life and how much of an advantage will be taken from those who require it. But then there are some people who shock the world with their utter…