On an otherwise regular morning in mid-August, viewers in Providence, Rhode Island were treated to a segment called Behind the Headlines with Mark Hyman, which immediately followed the local weather report.
“We have the greatest health care in the world,” Hyman says, despite the fact that some 27 million people in the U.S. do not have health insurance, and millions more are underinsured.
“Did Obamacare make us healthier? No,” Hyman declares. “With Obamacare in place, more Ame...
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Media outlets parrot Trump’s unequivocally false claims about his tax plan
On Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump gave a speech about tax reform, saying his proposed plan would not benefit the “wealthy and well-connected” and is “not good” for him. The problem with that claim is that the opposite is in fact true.
As ThinkProgress’ Rebekah Entralgo reported, two key aspects of the plan, repealing the estate tax and eliminating the alternative minimum tax, would both be good for Trump and other wealthy people. What we know about Trump’s t...
Fox News host who argued ‘we’re all going to die’ anyway now claims ‘all of Obamacare is immoral’
When Republicans were making an ultimately unsuccessful push to pass a Trumpcare bill in late June, Fox News’ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery criticized progressive “hysteria” about the bill, which would’ve cost more than 20 million Americans their health care, since “we’re all going to die” anyway. Now the former MTV VJ has offered another hot take on the existing health care law: it’s all immoral.
Ignoring the well-understood connection between health coverage and lower mortal...
