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  • Read This: Here’s Why Millions Are Losing Health Care.

    Nearly four million Americans have been kicked off of Medicaid since April, and things are only expected to get worse

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    Jessica Washington

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  • Barack Obama: Senate Health Care Bill Is a Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Richest People in America

    Former President Barack Obama took to his official Facebook page Thursday to criticize the Senate health care bill released Thursday, calling it “a massive transfer of wealth” to “the richest people in America,” and asking the Senate to “take a step back and measure what’s really at stake.” “Our politics are divided,” Obama wrote. “They…

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    Monique Judge

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  • The Inherent Racism of Trumpcare: Blackness Is a Pre-Existing Condition

    On Friday, 216 white people and Mia Love (R-Utah) voted to take away health insurance for 24 million Americans and replace it with a tax credit for the wealthy. Now 13 white males are working on a Senate version of the proposal. The repeal of Obamacare won’t simply affect the poor or the elderly—the secret…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Dems Sing ‘Na Na Na … Goodbye’ as House Votes to Repeal Obamacare

    House Democrats taunted their Republican counterparts as GOP representatives  passed a bill that would erase the signature legislation of the Obama administration and replace it with a tax break for the wealthiest Americans and simultaneously karate-chop 24 million Americans in their soon-to-be uninsured throats. Knowing that it won’t cover the millions of people with pre-existing…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Understanding #TrumpFlop on Obamacare in 7 Easy Memes and GIFs

    Brutal. Shameful. Embarrassing. America hasn’t seen a politician take an L this bad since Papa Pope read Fitz. In case you missed the sound of a million souls crying out in joy, then suddenly drowned out by loud laughter, the Republicans’ ill-fated attempt to scrap and replace Obamacare flopped miserably today. P90X Ryan (aka the…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Dictator in Chief to Republicans: Vote for Crappy Trumpcare or Lose Your Seat

    President Vladimir TrumPutin is issuing vague threats to House Republicans who don’t vote for legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare. On Tuesday, two days before a scheduled vote on the American Health Care Act, TrumPutin held a private meeting with House Republicans. Of course TrumPutin boasted to those in attendance about his rally Monday in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • All Health Care Is Obamacare

    Despite our reasoning skills, development of complex languages and cross-cultural ability to learn the Electric Slide, humans are basically animals, and all animals share fundamental traits. Take dogs, for instance: I have an enormous, bumbling, spoiled brat of a Great Dane named Omar. When Omar was a small puppy, he would bounce to his food…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • We Read All 123 Pages of Trumpcare; Here’s What You Need to Know

    While Donald Trump presides over this poorly produced reality show that we call a presidency, we must admit that it has been extraordinarily entertaining so far. Although the thrilling tales about the administration’s secret Russian rendezvous and Trump’s paranoid schizophrenic late-night tweets about dead people voting and phone tapping keep us glued to our favorite…

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    Michael Harriot

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