A seven-year quest to undo the Affordable Care Act collapsed — at least for now — as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) kept his colleagues and the press corps in suspense over a little more than two hours late Thursday into early Friday.
Single-payer health care received zero votes in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, as 57 senators voted against an amendment that would establish ‘Medicare-for-all’ and 43 senators voted “present.”
William Browder, a U.S.-born investor who championed a U.S. sanctions law against Russia, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday that Fusion GPS, the firm that created the Trump dossier, had also worked for Russia.
According to a study by the Media Research Center, a whopping 75 percent of recent evening news coverage by the major networks focused on the Russia-Trump probes. The latest to-do with Kushner will only inflate that number.
George Washington is most certainly turning in his grave now that his beloved Mount Vernon has been turned into yet another dangerous ‘gun-free zone’ for all visitors. It amazes me how little some know about criminal or terrorist behavior. It is not in the nature of either to obey laws, much less somebody’s ‘policy.’ This policy should be reversed as an anathema to the very rights which Washington fought to protect.
According to an internal IRS audit, one key reason has been discovered. After they identify and eliminate a delinquent worker, they keep hiring them back the following year without bothering to ask why they were let go the last time.
A majority of Americans — 51 percent — now disapprove of the news media’s treatment of President Trump, a sentiment shared by 77 percent of Republicans and even 26 percent of Democrats. Another 53 percent don’t like the way Mr. Trump deals with the media as well; 23 percent of the GOPers and 79 percent of Democrats agree.
The GOP House’s health care bill has been attacked as making rape a pre-existing condition that wouldn’t be covered under the bill’s language. Meaning … an insurance provider could deny coverage to you if you were raped. The fact that you have to put special willful effort into not having your pre-existing condition covered under the AHCA (even MORE protections were added with the Upton amendment) has been ignored. Instead, it’s been replaced with mythology that the AHCA won’t cover pre-existing conditions. A claim that is patently false.
The most of these false claims is that evil Republican men are ripping coverage away from women who have been raped by removing any pre-existing coverage requirement for rape related injuries.
This claim has been debunked by … well … pretty much everyone. Here’s a couple of links just to start:
And while all of those sources clearly debunk this nonsensical claim by amoebas, the next link is the most important. Why? Because NY Mag started the rumor, and has now retracted their bogus claim.
After running the initial headline:
Under New Health-Care Bill, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition
They now have this correction in the article:
Correction: This story originally stated that rape is considered a pre-existing condition in the AHCA. It has been updated to reflect that conditions stemming from sexual assault and domestic violence, such as PTSD and certain STDs, could be considered preexisting conditions, not sexual assault itself.
There, now that that is settled … why am I still seeing amoebas sharing this nonsense on social media? That was rhetorical. They are idiots, liars, and only interested in the politics of fear and personal destruction. They are not interested in truth, facts or decency.
The media and Democrats have been out there saying if you have pre-existing conditions, you won’t be covered by the GOP’s AHCA. That isn’t true, and it wasn’t true before the Upton amendment ensured there could be no doubt. However, as we all know, when it comes to health anything, the Democrats rallying cry is that the GOP will murder people. That too is a lie. We do know Obamacare killed people.
As I have illustrated countless times over the years on my show … when you whip people up into a frenzy, and make them fearful of their safety, their brains shut off, and you can control them. That’s what liberals are doing now. The AHCA (in current House form) is FAR from perfect, but it is far better than the mess we have now. I hope the Senate makes it better.
“Who is it that’s going out there and saying pre-existing conditions won’t be covered?” he continued. “It is the exact same group of people that went out there and lied to the face of every single American, telling them that if they like their plan, they would keep their doctor; if they like their doctor, they would keep their doctor. That was a bald-faced lie.”
