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How Republican Inaction Is Stripping Healthcare From Millions

January 21, 2026 By Egberto Willies

How Republican Inaction Is Stripping Healthcare From Millions

Republicans block ACA relief, triggering massive coverage losses and worsening health outcomes across America.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: ACA, health insurance, healthcare crisis, healthcare justice, medicaid, premiums, Progressive Politics, public policy, republicans, uninsured

Young column: Life-or-death crossroads for health care

December 1, 2025 By John Young

Talk about all of that, and do not stop. Make noise. But at this very moment we need extreme attention – and noise – about something else. Some 24 million Americans stand to take a crippling hit if Republicans disable the thing that makes the Affordable Care Act affordable.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: ACA, ACA Subsidies, Affordable Care Act, Biden Administration, CBO Report, Congressional Inaction, Economic Justice, Epstein Files, Government Censorship, Government Shutdown, Health Care Crisis, health insurance, Health Policy, Healthcare Access, healthcare inequality, Jimmy Kimmel, John Young, Medicaid Cuts, Medical Debt, obamacare, Political Commentary, public health, Republican Budget Cuts, social safety net, tax credits, Tom Homan, U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics, Working Families

Electing Trump the first time was a mistake. A second time would prove we’re in decline.

August 12, 2024 By Egberto Willies

Electing Trump the first time was a mistake. A second time would prove we're not smart.

Electing Trump the first time was a mistake. A second time would prove we’re not smart” analyzes the consequences of his initial tenure and warns of the implications of re-election, highlighting that it would reflect poorly on the nation’s judgment and foresight.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: capitalism, Donald Trump, health insurance

CORP WELFARE: All our health insurance subsidies are giveaways to the rich and a tax on all of us!

July 31, 2024 By Egberto Willies

CORP WELFARE: All our health insurance subsidies are giveaways to the rich and a tax on all of us!

Health insurance subsidies are a giveaway to the rich, the shareholders, and the executives of health insurance companies. The poor and working class are simply conduits to transfer our tax dollars to the rich.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Corporate Welfare, health insurance, Insurance subsidies, Medicare For All

A Doctor Got Charged $10,984 for a COVID-19 Antibody Test — by His Own Employer

September 7, 2020 By Egberto Willies

The theft by the health care industrial complex won’t stop until we make sure that loyalty is to the patient and not the health care executives & shareholders. A Doctor Got Charged $10,984 for a COVID-19 Antibody Test — by His Own Employer When Dr. Zachary Sussman went to Physicians Premier ER in Austin for […]

Filed Under: A Few Takes Tagged With: COVID-19, Doctor, health insurance, insurance, Zachary Sussman

COVID-19 makes the case against health insurance sponsored by the employer clear.

July 15, 2020 By Egberto Willies

COVID-19 makes the case against health insurance sponsored by the employer clear.

Americans are losing and have lost their jobs by the millions. All those lucky to have had employer-sponsored health insurance will lose it.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Employer Based Insurance, health insurance, Katy Tur, Medicare For All

Insurance executive comes clean about lying about Canada’s Single-Payer Medicare for All.

June 26, 2020 By Egberto Willies

Insurance executive comes clean about lying about Canada's Single-Payer Medicare for All

Wendell Potter had turned on the health insurance industry for some time. He used the U.S. failed response to COVID-19 to come clean on a serious past lie.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Canada, health insurance, insurance, Medicare For All, single payer, Wendell Potter

Almost went bankrupt with private health insurance, $160K hit in a year.

February 5, 2020 By Egberto Willies

Almost went bankrupt w/ private health insurance, $160K

A caller to Politics Done Right told his story about having to spend $160,000 of his savings even with private health insurance in one year for a brain condition. He would still have his money if we had Medicare for All but instead, he was forced to transfer it to rich shareholders. Private Health Insurance […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: bankrupt, health insurance

Don’t pretend that most Americans have warm fuzzies for their employer-based health insurance plans.

October 25, 2019 By Egberto Willies

Don’t pretend that most Americans have warm fuzzies for their employer-based health insurance plans.

Now that supporters of Medicare for All are taking the lead in the 2020 Democratic Primary, many private insurance supporting Centrists are in panic mode.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: employer-based health insurance, health insurance, Medicare For All

Democrats, Want to Win Over the Middle? Try This

July 8, 2019 By Tim Danahey

Democrats must educate

As Democrats embrace a platform which may be uncomfortable for middle-of-the-road Americans, education & explanation are clearly necessary.

Filed Under: Guest Bloggers Tagged With: Antitrust, Democrats, economy, health insurance, immigration, public option, socialism

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