Republicans want to eliminate Social Security and Medicare

Firing Back on the “Fiscal Responsibility Summit” By Sara Robinson with Campaign for America’s Future

The very same conservatives who borrowed-and-spent us into the deepest financial catastrophe in nearly a century are now righteously lecturing the rest of us on the topic of “fiscal responsibility.” As usual, their arguments are encrusted with a thick layer of [...]

Bloviation vs Reality on Stimulus Health-Care Provision

Bloviation vs. Reality on Stimulus Health-Care Provision By Steven Pearlstein with the Washington Post

To most Americans, the language on Page 52 of the report of the House Committee on Appropriations would have seemed perfectly sensible. 

The report spelled out the committee’s rationale for including $1.1 billion for something called “comparative effectiveness research” in the massive economic [...]

UnitedHealth Group Defrauded 100 Million Americans

UnitedHealth Group ripped off over 110 million Americans and they did it for 10 years!

An investigation begun by New York’s Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo said the company Ingenix, a research firm owned by UnitedHealth Group deliberately shorted reimbursements on out-of-network health insurance claims for Americans to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars!  Ingenix [...]