By Mindy Fischer on October 23, 2018
Dana Rohrabacher, Dean Heller, healthcare, Kevin Cramer, liars, lies, lying, Maddow, Martha McSally, midterms, pre-existing conditions, pre-existing conditions protections, rachel maddow, republicans, ted cruz
Conservatives, Elections, Entertainment, GOP, Healthcare, Obamacare, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Press/Media, Republicans, Resist, Right wing lies, Trump lies, Trump supporters, Uncategorized, Videos

Republicans all over the country are lying about protecting pre-existing conditions. And Tuesday night Rachel Maddow nailed them for it. The way that Republicans have been campaigning on saving pre-existing conditions protections has been driving me insane. They are flat-out lying. They have spent years voting to repeal Obamacare. One of the most popular parts […]
By Mindy Fischer on September 22, 2018
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Republican Congressman Paul Gosar was just shredded in a new campaign ad. The best part? The ad features his own siblings saying, “Please, don’t vote for our brother.” Rep. Paul Gosar is running for reelection in Arizona’s 4th district. And he’s got a big problem. His own siblings are encouraging voters to elect their brother’s […]
By Mindy Fischer on September 13, 2018
000 people off of Medicaid because of policy pushed by Trump, access to healthcare, Arkansas, Arkansas just threw 4, BuzzFeed, encourage more low-income people to get jobs, health and wellness, healthcare, left without healthcare coverage, lost their health insurance, low-income people, Medicaid, New Rules, Obamacare, personal responsibility, poor Arkansas Medicaid recipients, poor people, real life consequences, the Trump administration is wrong, thrown off of Medicaid, work requirements
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Donald Trump has been pushing hard for new work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Because of his policy, Arkansas just kicked over 4,000 low-income people off of Medicaid. On Wednesday, BuzzFeed reported that more than 4,000 people have been thrown off of Medicaid in Arkansas because of new work requirements. This is a policy that has been […]
By Mindy Fischer on June 1, 2018
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Elections have consequences! Remember all of those seats in Virginia that the Democrats flipped a few months ago? Well those Dems just got a HUGE win for the people of Virginia. Now this is some great news! These brand new Dems are already making history. In the 2017 elections, Virginia took a big shift to […]
By Mindy Fischer on May 21, 2018
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Donald Trump is driven by his pathological jealousy and hatred of Barack Obama. More than anything he wants to destroy Obama’s legacy. But Trump is going to fail. I keep reading that Donald Trump is destroying Barack Obama’s legacy. But it’s not really true. Trump has been rolling back some of the Obama-era rules and […]
By Mindy Fischer on May 7, 2018
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Melania says she wants to help kids. Meanwhile, her husband just sent a plan to Congress to cut $15 billion out of programs that actually do help kids – like the Children’s Health Insurance Program. On Monday, Melania Trump revealed her new platform “Be Best.” She says she wants to focus on helping children, including […]
By Mindy Fischer on November 8, 2017
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Voters in Maine overwhelmingly called for the expansion of Medicaid in their state Tuesday night. Now their Republican Governor says that he will ignore the will of the voters unless the state legislature comes up with a way to fully fund it. Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage has been against Obamacare and the Medicaid expansion […]
By Mindy Fischer on November 7, 2017
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Finally some good news! Despite the best efforts of Trump and the Republicans to kill Obamacare, more Americans are signing up than ever before. The Hill reported on Monday that, in the first few days of open enrollment this year, a record number of people signed up for the ACA compared to the same period […]
By Mindy Fischer on September 28, 2017
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“I thought everybody else knew what the hell they were talking about, but apparently not.” Now that the Republicans’ latest attempt to repeal Obamacare is dead, at least one of them is finally ready to confess. Lindsey Graham, the lead author of their most recent failed bill, Graham-Cassidy, admitted on Tuesday that he had no […]
By Mindy Fischer on September 25, 2017
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Senator Bill Cassidy spent the weekend making changes to his horrible healthcare bill. The revised bill is just as horrible. But now it contains a sweet deal….for Cassidy. When the Republicans said that they were going to make some changes to the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill this weekend, you may have been tempted to think that […]