Here’s yet another excellent segment from HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, this one about Confederate monuments and their connection to history. As usual he makes interesting points, and he does so very entertainingly. If you don’t want to … Continue reading
Today President Trump signed a new executive order that would, once fully implemented, allow a lot of people to obtain cheaper but lousier health insurance. (Actually, as you can see in this clip, he almost forgot to sign it, but … Continue reading
Yesterday Kevin Drum pointed out two more examples of the results of Trump’s efforts to sabotage Obamacare, mainly by hinting he will refuse to permit the legally required cost sharing reduction payments to be made but refusing to say definitely. … Continue reading
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife have a pet rabbit named Marlon Bundo, who apparently has written a children’s books about how the vice president spends his days. I hope the bunny mentions Pence’s political stunt of spending hundreds … Continue reading
One of the nuttier recent political notions is that addiction to opioid pain relievers and related drugs can be blamed on Medicaid, and more specifically the Medicaid expansion introduced by the Affordable Care Act. It seems somewhat plausible, I supposed, … Continue reading
Apologies for two posts in a row about this (with a gap of time between them; I’ve been a bit ill), but it appears that Trump’s efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act are leading to a large jump in … Continue reading
I’m sorry to keep harping on this, but the Trump administration is still doing what it can to damage the Affordable Care Act at a major cost to people who need health insurance, and so far the news media have … Continue reading
Even though it currently appears that the Cassidy-Graham bill won’t pass, it seems to me that there’s a point worth making about how putting people with pre-existing conditions into a separate risk pool might affect their insurance premiums. Not long … Continue reading
There’s currently a debate going on about some NFL team members kneeling during the national anthem to protest widely reported instances of police violence toward minority groups. President Trump has called the players in question “sons of bitches” while team … Continue reading
While overall crime in the United States has continued to fall, violent crime, notably murder, rose in the last two calendar years after a long period of decline. That increase turns out to have been entirely in metropolitan areas, especially … Continue reading