True the Vote, a group that spread discredited election conspiracy theories, “abandoned” The Freedom Hospital in April 2022, according to its lawyers. Yet board member Gregg Phillips continued to seek donations for the project for months afterward.
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Republicans plan to destroy Medicare and Social Security because their fondest wish is to protect the wealth of the rich. Thus they are prepared to ignore the preference of three-quarters of Americans, including their own voters.
I am a former health-care executive who helped develop PR and marketing schemes to sell private Medicare Advantage insurance plans.
While forty states provide for the recall of state and local elected officials, there is no federal recall law that could lead to the removal of someone like Santos from Congress.
A researcher has isolated five types of threat utilizing the speech generalities of "us" and "them" and how they are used to divide societies and trigger violence.
Meta and other major social media companies had ignored or brushed off warnings that their platforms were being used as crucial organizing hubs for Brazil's insurrection.
A highly abused tax loophole, exploited for billions in tax avoidance, was closed by a provision the year-ending $1.7 trillion spending bill. Of course the companies that made massive easy profits from this scam are less than pleased.
It is a bitter irony that on the second anniversary of the Insurrection, McCarthy finally made enough concessions to become Speaker to the very people who participated in that crime against our country.
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.
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.
Kari Lake has now been acquainted with the fact that accusations of voter fraud in the media do not matter in court if the only "evidence" is speculations and assumptions.
Teddy Roosevelt wanted the limelight that went with the presidency again and announced that he would run against the incumbent president of his own party, a longtime close friend and colleague whose nomination he had engineered four years earlier.
There are several key characteristics that stand out in the collapses of both the Charitable Corporation in 1732 and FTX today.
Newly obtained records show how Leonard Leo, an architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts, has been funding groups pushing to change elections and anti-discrimination laws.
Florida presents a stark example of what a fully Republican controlled government will do: Watch out for the interests of corporations over people, and hand them free money to boot.
Medicare Advantage is actually just private insurance that uses the trusted Medicare name to trick seniors and people with disabilities into enrolling, then profits by denying coverage for necessary medical care.