Medicare

On Medicare and Medicaid’s 55th Birthday, Let’s Expand Benefits—Not Cut Them

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On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. This crowning achievement was both the culmination of a decades-long effort to attain guaranteed universal health insurance and the first step in the quest for Medicare for All. In the 55 years since the legislation was signed into law, both programs have proven …

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Labor’s civil war over ‘Medicare for All’ threatens its 2020 clout

Leave a Comment / healthcare / By max cyril

“Medicare for All” is roiling labor unions across the country, threatening to divide a critical part of the Democratic base ahead of several major presidential primaries. In union-heavy primary states like California, New York, and Michigan, the fight over single-payer health care is fracturing organized labor, sometimes pitting unions against Democratic candidates that vie for …

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Medicare for All’s jobs problem

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Deanna Mazur, the daughter of a retired steel mill worker who works as a medical billing manager, finds some things to like about the “Medicare for All” policy that she’s been hearing politicians talk about. She likes the notion that all Americans would have health insurance. And it would simplify her own job quite a …

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Southern Workers Unite Around Medicare for All: “A Tremendous Liberation From Your Boss”

Leave a Comment / health care / By max cyril

A line of cars rolls up to the government center of the largest city in a state tied with neighbor South Carolina for least unionized in the country. Members of the Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) emerge from the cars and join a picket line of Charlotte city workers. They hoist a banner declaring “The City Works Because …

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Don’t Pass Huge Tax Cuts for the Wealthy on the Backs of Working People

Leave a Comment / TaxCuts, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have proposed a job-killing tax plan that favors the super-rich and wealthy corporations over working people. We cannot afford to let this bill become law. Here’s why this plan is a bad idea: Millions of working people would pay more. People making under $40,000 would be worse off, on average, …

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GOP Smash-And-Burn Tax Plan Does Nothing for Workers

Leave a Comment / TaxCuts / By max cyril

Congressional Republicans are selling a trickle-down tax scam times two. It’s the same old snake oil, with double hype and no cure. A single statistic explains it all: one percent of Americans – that is the tiny, exclusive club of billionaires and millionaires – get 80 percent of the gain from this tax con. Eighty percent! But …

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Veto the Cold-Hearted Health Bill

Leave a Comment / health care, healthcare / By max cyril

Donald Trump is right. The House health insurance bill is “mean, mean, mean,” as he put it last week. He correctly called the measure that would strip health insurance from 23 million Americans “a son of a bitch.” The proposal is not at all what Donald Trump promised Americans. He said that under his administration, no one would lose …

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If you have a preexisting health condition, don’t even think about leaving your job

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If President-elect Trump follows through on his campaign promises, millions of individuals-immigrants, religious minorities, people of color-face a very grim four years. One of the worst hit groups will be Americans with significant health costs. The Trump transition team published a brief summary of the incoming president’s health plan on its website, and the news …

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Krugman on ‘Sequester of Fools’

Leave a Comment / health care, unemployment, unions, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

Paul Krugman has a pretty straightforward plan to deal with the sequester that’s due to hit March 1. The New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist says, “The right policy would be to forget about the whole thing.” He bases his proposal on what Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen said in her keynote …

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Bowles-Simpson ‘B-S’ Zombie Plan Tells Working People to ‘Drop Dead’

Leave a Comment / economy, health care, unemployment, unions, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

It’s back. No matter how many times working people reject the Bowles-Simpson “B-S” budget plan that cynically claims it would “promote economic growth “—but would actually snuff out the recovery and cut lifelines for working families—it keeps coming back to the table. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson released another tired plan today that would cut Social Security COLAs …

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