North Carolina legislative leaders have announced an agreement to expand Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of additional low-income adults through the Affordable Care Act
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‘Fill-the-gaps’ programs can’t replace Liberal promise of pharmacare, advocates say
As pressure builds on the Liberals to implement pharmacare, questions are being raised about whether Ottawa’s model will materialize as a truly universal, single-payer program.
Official budget scores concealed lame duck bills’ effect on inequality
Modern legislative debates are often defined by the total “price tag”— the $550 billion infrastructure bill, $1.9 trillion Trump tax cut, or $938 billion Affordable Care Act. And the major “lame duck” session bill that worked its way through Congress before the holidays — a $1.7 trillion omnibus — was no different.
The sheer size of this bill meant the stakes were incredibly high for Americans’ wallets — but the amount of new government spending alone doesn’t tell us the full...
With election over, seniors must buff up their armor to defend Social Security, Medicate
There was much for seniors to cheer in the outcome of the midterm elections. Voters rejected many candidates who supported harmful proposals to “reform” Social Security and Medicare, including high-profile Republican challengers Blake Masters in Arizona and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire (whose defeats helped Democrats preserve their Senate majority.). In fact, more than 70 of the House and Senate candidates we endorsed as “seniors’ champions” emerged victorious. It is not a stretch to say...
Sen. Sanders: Why we need to expand the Democratic majority in Congress
As we enter the final weeks of the 2022 midterm elections, poll after poll shows that the most important issues facing the American people are the economy and inflation. This should come as no surprise.
As corporate profits soar, and as billionaires become even richer, working class Americans are falling further behind. This, sadly, is not a new reality. Tragically, despite huge increases in worker productivity, real inflation adjusted wages for American workers...
Sen. Sanders: Why we need to expand the Democratic majority in Congress
As we enter the final weeks of the 2022 midterm elections, poll after poll shows that the most important issues facing the American people are the economy and inflation. This should come as no surprise.
As corporate profits soar, and as billionaires become even richer, working class Americans are falling further behind. This, sadly, is not a new reality. Tragically, despite huge increases in worker productivity, real inflation adjusted wages for American workers...
A ‘Speaker McCarthy’ may be the only way to stop unconstitutional student loan bailout
Political officials from both sides of the aisle have objected to President Biden’s unconstitutional $400 billion student loan “forgiveness,” but many have questioned who has the legal standing to block this action. The answer is Congress.
By using the Boehner Doctrine, the House can establish legal standing to sue the administration for infringing on its exclusive Constitutional power to appropriate money. Our government features three theoretically co-equal branches of...
Hispanics find home in GOP
What do you think of America? Why do you want to live in America? What are your hopes for your family in America?
The answers to these questions provide insights into why many Hispanics are increasingly identifying with the Republican Party. They’ve seen how leaders who arrogantly think they know better than them actually weaken individual freedoms, destroy economic opportunities, and damage what they want for their country.
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Time for Washington to stop shooting the moon
The political fight now occupying center stage on Capitol Hill may appear like more of the same. Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has promised to thwart a bipartisan bill designed to help American businesses compete with China unless Democrats abandon a big spending bill that Republicans oppose. And this does ring familiar: Steamrolling the other party has become business as usual in Washington. At the same time, however, this moment also speaks to a more universal truth...
Ottawa pledging $2B for pandemic surgery delays, warn universal health care ‘at risk’
Duclos said delays in surgeries, diagnostics and treatments existed before the pandemic but that after five successive waves of COVID-19, provincial health systems are struggling.