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Banks have identified medical credit cards as a lucrative opportunity to profit off of the worsening crisis of patients who are unable to afford their medical care.
Now that there appears to be a Groundhog-day like process in effect for the House Speakership, we offer up a few suggestions to keep everyone interested.
The Speaker of the House is the most visible and authoritative spokesperson for the majority party in the House. Speakers articulate an agenda and explain legislative action to other Washington officials as well as the public.
The utter extremism in the thought processes—if we can call them that—of Republican House members precludes any of the traditional concepts of negotiation and compromise that are the hallmarks of a working government.
This year healthcare providers will be required to provide predictions of costs finally giving patients more freedom to comparison-shop and possibly help slow rising medical costs.
It is entirely possible that the combination of just wind and solar will outpace nuclear power and maybe even that of coal during the next twelve months.
When I envision the people I want leading this country, it’s people who have a baseline for decency. People who are compassionate, not cruel. But right now, one party—the GOP—is objectively more cruel than the other.
There must be something that we as voters can do about the fact that we are being lied to at every turn in political campaigns—and that lying is protected by law. Well, there are a couple of things we can do.
I try and start the new year by buying a new pair of running shoes. Even though my running looks more like walking I have never liked the idea of walking shoes. I also sit down with myself and say “self, what ya got ta say for your bad self?”
Not long after being allowed back on Twitter, arrogant right wing "influencer," Andrew Tate decided to attack climate hero Greta Thunberg. Greta's deadpan responses ended up getting him much more attention than he bargained for.
Southwest Airlines made a risky gamble that mass layoffs and spending billions of dollars on handouts to investors rather than fixing infrastructure would pay off with record profits. The airline lost that bet badly.
In recent years, hospitals of every stripe have opened obstetrics emergency departments, or OBEDs, which means healthy patients get bills for emergency care they didn’t know they got.
Beginning next year, the law will also require drug companies to pay Medicare a rebate if they raise their drug prices at a faster rate than inflation. Additionally, the law will limit monthly insulin cost-sharing to $35 for people with Medicare Part D.
As Southwest Pilot Larry Lonero writes, "...two decades of neglect takes several years to overcome. And, unfortunately to our horror, our house of cards came tumbling down this week as a routine winter storm broke our 1990’s operating system."
To the far right, cruelty is more than a means to achieving a policy goal—it is often the goal itself. Cruelty for cruelty's sake—directed against "the other," a variable collection of liberals, immigrants, and minority groups.
George Santos is, at least on the surface, a two-bit con man. But with him in Congress, Republicans will get his easily manipulatable vote.
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