Author: Marie2

Camila – Chilean Communist & Leader

In 2011, two women activists stood out enough to me that a penned a few words about them in When Women Lead.   The first one, Asmaa Mahfouz, had been instrumental in a revolution and the ouster of Mubarek.  The hopes...

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The Morans Strike Again

They really can’t top “keep government out of my Medicare” for sheer ignorance.  So today they settled for ignorant and sheer hypocrisy while demonstrating that they’d eat Polonium-210 if a bagger...

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Another Medicaid Report Card – Update NYT

Traditional Medicaid was available to four groups with very low or no income and little to no net worth.  These groups were 1) Aged 2) Disabled 3) Adults (mostly with a qualifying dependent) and 4) Children.   The...

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States’ Medicaid Report Card [UPDATE] The Reveal

If the grade (A-F) criteria were limited to 1) pre-ACA Medicaid eligible percentage enrolled (more is better) and 2) acceptance of the ACA Medicaid expansion, guess which state is at the top of the heap and bottom. To help you...

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A R/W Talking Point or Ignorance?

Ted Rall posted a not so good and superficially inflammatory diary at dKos: Via Sarah Palin: How Obama’s Idiotic ACA Might Lead to Real Health Care Reform.  It’s sort of the mirror image of Booman’s...

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