Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property DUP_PRO_Global_Entity::$notices is deprecated in /home2/imszdrmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/duplicator-pro/classes/entities/class.json.entity.base.php on line 244
ACA/Obamacare Archives - Page 3 of 8 - Occasional Planet
Skip to content

Occasional Planet

Progressive Voices Speaking Out

  • Home
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Contact
  • FAQ
  • Click Quotes
  • Who am I?
  • Infographics

Category: ACA/Obamacare

Obamacare

VIDEO: THE HUMAN COST OF Replacing Obamacare

March 18, 2017 Renee Shur ACA/Obamacare, Health, Health care Leave a comment

   “One Paragraph of Obamacare Saved this Boy’s Life,” tells the story of Timmy, a thriving, happy six-year-old who lives in Maryland with his

Continue reading
OCD

Does Paul Ryan’s OCD trump empathy?

March 16, 2017 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Budget, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

Paul Ryan never seems happier than when talking about the money that can be saved by repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. It

Continue reading

How to kill Obamacare without “repeal” — Poison it

February 26, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Health care, Republicans Leave a comment

Republicans have figured out a way to kill Obamacare without “repealing” it: Poison it. Republicans have asserted, hundreds of times, that they plan to

Continue reading
Electors

Here’s my letter to Electors: Now it’s your turn

December 5, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Activism, Electoral College, Voting/Elections 3 comments

I’ve just sent the following letter to all 10 of Missouri’s presidential Electors. Missouri is so deep, deep red that I doubt that I’ll

Continue reading
repeal

A must-see video: What ACA repeal will mean for women’s health

December 3, 2016 Renee Shur 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Women Leave a comment

Ok, ladies. Listen up. Maybe you voted in the 2016 election. Maybe you didn’t bother. Maybe you voted Hillary. Or maybe you wrote in

Continue reading

Could political expediency stop the repeal of ACA? Maybe.

November 30, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Congress Leave a comment

Republicans say they’re going to repeal the Affordable Care Act [ACA] as soon as possible. Is there anything that can stop them? Maybe there

Continue reading
toast

Obamacare is probably toast: Trump voters will get hurt

November 30, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare Leave a comment

I know people who have blasted Obamacare from the beginning, and refused to even acknowledge that there is anything good about it. When I

Continue reading

Aetna’s exit from Obamacare should make us want Medicare-for-All even more

August 17, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Health care One comment

Aetna has just announced that it will be pulling out of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges in 11 of the 15 states where

Continue reading

From Obamacare to Medicare for All: Easier said than done

March 8, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Bernie Sanders, Good government, Health care One comment

A Medicare for All health system [aka “single-payer”] would be a great step forward for the US. But how difficult will it be to

Continue reading

Why I’m voting for Bernie Sanders

February 15, 2016 Madonna Gauding 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Bernie Sanders, Corporations 3 comments

First off, let me be clear. I’m voting for Bernie Sanders in the primary and I hope he wins the nomination. If he doesn’t

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 8 Next Posts»

In case you missed it

  • Starship Troopers and the Degeneration of Parody
  • The Fairness Party
  • “Secular Humanists with Jewish Last Names”
  • An (Updated) Honest Preview of the 2022 Midterms
  • Rescuing Susan Collins – Make Judicial Nominees Speak the Truth
  • Doing the world a world of good

A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

Follow Occasional Planet on social media

Newsletter
Twitter
RSS
Facebook

Top posts

  • Emperor: When you call a movie “historical,” it helps to include the history part
    Emperor: When you call a movie “historical,” it helps to include the history part
  • St. Louis High School Democrats endorse candidates in area primaries
    St. Louis High School Democrats endorse candidates in area primaries
  • Climate Counts: Rating companies by their environmental impact
    Climate Counts: Rating companies by their environmental impact
  • Can we please not start with, “I believe in the Second Amendment”
    Can we please not start with, “I believe in the Second Amendment”
  • Hog Hell: How a citizen lobby influenced policy in North Carolina
    Hog Hell: How a citizen lobby influenced policy in North Carolina
  • The unofficial Congressional book club
    The unofficial Congressional book club