Medicare for All is the only solution to our wasteful, for-profit health care system

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
March 16, 2019

Medicare for All is the only solution to our current wasteful, for-profit health care system.

This Doctor SHUTS DOWN Every Argument Fox News Has Against Medicare for All

Medicare for All is the only solution to our current wasteful, for-profit health care system.

Posted by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Saturday, March 16, 2019

Worldwide Youth Climate Strike today.

U.S.Senator Bernie Sanders

March 15, 2019

Congratulations to all the young people participating in the Youth Climate Strike all over the world today. Their message is simple: We must come together to take bold and aggressive action to solve the existential crisis of climate change. We will fight the greed of Trump and the fossil fuel executives who are more worried about their short term profits than the well-being of the planet. We will fight to transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. We will fight to create millions of new jobs in sustainable energy and make this country and world a habitable place for our kids and grandchildren to live.

The Yuge Republican Lie About the Deficit

Robert Reich

The Yuge Republican Lie About the Deficit

March 12, 2019
I keep hearing Republicans in Congress blame Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for the growing federal deficit. Rubbish. Our new video explains the truth about the deficit that Trump and Republicans don’t want you to know.

The Yuge Republican Lie About the Deficit

I keep hearing Republicans in Congress blame Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for the growing federal deficit. Rubbish. Our new video explains the truth about the deficit that Trump and Republicans don't want you to know.

Posted by Robert Reich on Monday, March 11, 2019

Trump budget looks to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

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“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Donald Trump declared in 2015.  “Every other Republican’s going to cut, and even if they wouldn’t, they don’t know what to do because they don’t know where the money is. I do. I do.”

It became a staple of his entire national candidacy: no matter what, Americans could count on him to champion these social-insurance programs.

Four years later, the president is, in fact, proposing deep cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. As the New York Times reported, Trump’s newly proposed budget completes the trifecta by targeting Social Security, too.

The administration also proposes spending $26 billion less on Social Security programs, including a $10 billion cut to the Social Security Disability Insurance program.

As we discussed earlier, the problem with a proposal like this one isn’t necessarily practical: with a Democratic-led U.S. House, there’s simply no way policymakers will endorse the White House’s budget blueprint or enact the cuts Trump supports.

Rather, what this represents is a political problem on a variety of fronts. It’s obviously, for example, a profound broken promise: as a Republican candidate, Trump swore up and down for months that he’d never try to cut Social Security, but here he is anyway, doing the opposite of what he said he’d do.

It’s also a policy failure: a whole lot of us predicted that the president and his allies would go after popular social-insurance programs – often referred to as “entitlements” – as a way to help pay for the Republican tax breaks for the wealthy. With his new budget plan, Trump is helping prove the point.

But of particular interest is a period of time known as “last fall.”

As regular readers probably recall, as the 2018 midterm elections drew closer, a variety of Republican leaders, cognizant of broad public support for programs like Medicare and Social Security, said it’s GOP officials who really support the programs – reality be damned.

Trump led the way, going so far as to argue just six months ago, “We’re saving Social Security; the Democrats will destroy Social Security. We’re saving Medicare; the Democrats want to destroy Medicare.” The president has pushed the same message at many of his campaign rallies.

Soon after, voters handed Democrats their biggest wins in U.S. House races since the Watergate era – which, for some reason, the president interpreted as a justification to betray his own assurances to voters.

When House Republicans are invited to vote up or down on the Trump budget, it’ll be an interesting test of just how far they’re willing to go to align themselves with an unpopular president’s unpopular agenda.

Thousands of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada.

Direct From— with Dena Takruri.

March 8, 2019

This International Women’s Day, don’t forget about the thousands of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

This International Women’s Day, don’t forget about the thousands of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada.

Posted by Direct From on Friday, March 8, 2019

ACO attacks Manafort Sentence

The Independent

Ocasio-Cortez attacks sentence handed to Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort: ‘The system is broken’

Peter Stubley, The Independent      March 8, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has attacked the “broken” US justice system after Donals Trump’s former campaign manager was jailed for 47 months for a $6m (£4.5m) tax and bank fraud.

Five ways to get around Trump’s useless and racist border wall:

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders

March 5, 2019

Five ways to get around Trump’s useless and racist border wall:

5 Reasons the Border Wall Won't Stop Drugs

Five ways to get around Trump's useless and racist border wall:

Posted by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Trump punishes middle-class with corporate tax cuts!

More bad news for middle America after Trump slashes corporate taxes.
March, 2019

11 MILLION TAXPAYERS LOSE $323 BILLION IN DEDUCTIONS IN TRUMP TAX

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‘I am pro-life, but I am pro-humanity, too’

Senator Bernie Sanders and NowThis Politics shared a post. 
March 4, 2019 

‘I am pro-life, but I am pro-humanity, too’ — This Republican lawmaker shared an emotional story to oppose a law that would completely outlaw abortions in his state.

All around the country extremist legislators are working overtime to chip away at women’s rights to control their own bodies. This is why at EVERY level—federal, state, and local—we must do everything we can to protect women’s control over their reproductive health care.

 

Pro-Life Politician Stands Up to Anti-Abortion Policy in Arkansas

‘I am pro-life, but I am pro-humanity, too’ — This Republican lawmaker shared an emotional story to oppose a law that would completely outlaw abortions in his state

Posted by NowThis Election on Monday, March 4, 2019

Medicare For All!

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders posted an episode of Robert Reich.

March 5, 2019

Donald Trump and Republicans across the country are ramping up their attacks on Medicare for All to protect the profits of insurance and pharmaceutical industries, but the American people are clear about what they want: to end the international disgrace of being the only major country not to guarantee health care as a right. via Robert Reich.

It's Time for Medicare for All

Donald Trump and Republicans across the country are ramping up their attacks on Medicare for All to protect the profits of insurance and pharmaceutical industries, but the American people are clear about what they want: to end the international disgrace of being the only major country not to guarantee health care as a right. via Robert Reich

Posted by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, March 5, 2019