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Have We Reached The Tipping Point?

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FOR PROFIT HEALTH CARE SUCKS!  MEDICARE ADVANTAGE IS A FOR PROFIT SCAM WITH HIGH DENIAL RATES  FOR LIFE SAVING CARE!  excerpt:  Anyone With Health Insurance The fight over extending Covid-era subsidies for Obamacare is shining a spotlight on a growing problem: the staggeringly high cost of health insurance in America.  The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the developed world and the only country without universal healthcare, according to the World Health Organization. Employer-provided insurance is the most popular, covering 154 million, or 54% of people with insurance. Public insurance, which includes Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Health Care, accounts for about 36%. Ten percent get insurance through the Affordable Care Act.  Eight percent of Americans are uninsured,  an historic low. Have We Reached The Tipping Point? The president has stooped to using hunger as a political gambit Dan Rather and Team Steady Oct 3...

Stop Watching the State of the Union and Read This Instead

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Stop Watching the State of the Union and Read This Instead 3.4.25 Ally Sammarco Mar 5 Good Tuesday evening, readers, and welcome back to your source for news and analysis on the circus that is American politics and entertainment:  Today’s American News . Trump is giving his State of the Union tonight, which means we’re all either watching – or we’re purposely not watching! Here’s the news of the day that’s not an old man rambling on stage: Trump chaos leaves USDA staff in limbo as CDC staffers are called back to work…  In the ‘fire first, ask questions later’ era of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the livelihoods of federal workers hang in the balance. Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger, a federal watchdog, is fighting for his job and that of 5,000 probationary employees at USDA, per  Politico . Just weeks after hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) workers were terminated, many are being called back to work, per  NPR . Oops, Elon made a boo-boo… An...

CC Newsletter 27 Aug - With one out of 7 persons affected by floods, Pakistan declares emergency

  Dear Friend, 30 to 33 million persons are reported to be seriously affected by floods in Pakistan, a country with a population of 220 million. Due to this a national emergency has been declared in Pakistan. If you think the contents of this newsletter are critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our newsletter here http://www.countercurrents.org/news-letter/. In Solidarity Binu Mathew Editor Countercurrents.org With one out of 7 persons affected by floods, Pakistan declares emergency by Bharat Dogra https://countercurrents.org/2022/08/with-one-out-of-7-persons-affected-by-floods-pakistan-declares-emergency/ 30 to 33 million persons are reported to be seriously affected by floods in Pakistan, a country with a population of 220 million. Due to this a national emergency has been declared in Pakistan. Whistleb...