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  • Insurance Industry Panics As Sanders Vows To Ban For-Profit Healthcare

    Insurance Industry Panics As Sanders Vows To Ban For-Profit Healthcare

    By all accounts, the American healthcare system is broken. Per-capita healthcare spending in the U.S., at almost $10,000 annually, is around three times that of most other major developed countries and a staggering 17% of the nation’s GDP – far more than any other nation save the tiny Pacific archipelago of Tuvalu – is spent…

  • Abdul-Jabbar: Ben Carson Makes Black People Look 'Terrible,' Is 'Scared' Of Science

    Former NBA superstar and now renowned political columnist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recently published an op-ed in TIME titled “Ben Carson Is Terrible for Black Americans,” where he slammed the new Republican front-runner, neurosurgeon and religious zealot for the damage that his presidency would do for the struggle for black Americans to achieve true equality in American society. While he praised…

  • Top Fed Economist: Republicans Were Dead Wrong, Obamacare Is No 'Job-Killer'

    In spite of conservative doomsday prophecies that the Affordable Care Act would be fiscally devastating, resulting in both job cuts and reduced hours, the reality is that this universal insurance actually helps the market function more efficiently. Dr. Maxim Pinkovsky, a leading economist from the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, has published a research paper that explores…

  • Walker Vows To Rob 13 Million Of Their Healthcare: 'It's The American Dream!'

    After the years of never-ending denouncements and countless calls to repeal Obamacare, a Republican presidential candidate has finally proposed a coherent alternative. It will come as no surprise that his proposal will strip healthcare away from over thirteen million Americans, a figure that will lead to 9,800 deaths a year, according to the American Public…

  • Watch: Obama Destroys 6 Years of Republican Obamacare Lies With 1 Joke

    Five years into Obamacare, the results are in, and the President is jubilant. Addressing a crowd of supporters at the White House, he took a victory lap as he extolled the success of the healthcare program despite six years of relentless doom-and-gloom from the Republican Party. “We’re saving money for families and businesses. And we’re…