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ACA Replacement Plans: Your Money or Your Life, Part 2
GOP replacement plans are likely to be much more expensive for millions of Americans with little if any benefit. This article dives into how the Patient Freedom Act of 2017, introduced on January 23 in the Senate, sets up health insurance “access” in a way that adds unnecessary expenses and increases insurance costs and fees—all for much higher financial and…
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Bannon and the National Security Council’s Secret “Kill List”
While the United States and the world was in an uproar over Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on immigration that even conservative sources view as unconstitutional and illegal, Trump reorganized the National Security Council (NSC), adding his chief strategist Steven Bannon and decreasing the participation and status of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, currently General Joseph Dunford,…
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Trump is Wrong: Torture Doesn’t Work
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: President Donald Trump — I still get chills when I say it out loud — has announced his desire to remove the ban on CIA “black site” prisons where suspected terrorists can be tortured. Trump has stated that he wants to bring back waterboarding and worse forms of torture because, and…
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Will GOP Healthcare Plans Cover Immunization If Tom Price Is Confirmed?
Earlier this week, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced S.191, the Patient Freedom Act (PFA) of 2017, as a potential replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The PFA gives states three options: (1) Keep ACA; (2) implement market-based health care and insurance, with funds in individual Roth health savings plans (HSAs) and autoenrollment in a basic high-deductible plan for all…
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How Trump May Have Just Killed 21,000 Women
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: Imagine 21,000 women. If that’s difficult, imagine Madison Square Garden, where the New York Knicks play. Imagine every seat is filled with a woman, and imagine it’s an all-woman basketball game being played with female coaches, refs, scorekeepers, and announcers. Okay, that’s about 21,000 women. Now imagine that a bomb gets…
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ACA Replacement Plans: Your Money or Your Life, Part 1
GOP replacement plans for Obamacare do not live up to claims of protecting people with pre-existing conditions, prohibiting health status discrimination, prohibiting lifetime or annual limits, reducing costs for consumers, and many other promises. This is true for every plan proposed so far, but in this article, I focus on the bill introduced in the US Senate on Monday, January…
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Things are scary in the USA right now and it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the constant barrage of executive orders and new laws soon to be affecting human rights and health particularly for women, but a few good activists have told me to pick just a few topics and focus on them so I don’t get overwhelmed. I’m going…
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How Big Alt-Med Tried (and Failed) to Silence a Scientist
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: In past videos, I’ve mentioned “Big Alt Med.” Obviously this is a reference to “Big Pharma,” the label given to the pharmaceutical industry by the people critical of them. To be fair, that includes me — Big Pharma is a behemoth, and they are an often-times dangerous lobby that vocally supports…
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