Category: Web Briefing
5 Health Savings Account Benefits You Need to Know About
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2019/05/…
Insurers Intensify Contrast With Bernie’s Medicare For All
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen…
KHF: Compare Medicare-for-all and Public Plan Proposals
Compare Medicare-for-all and Public Plan Proposals
Democrats preview post-Trump plan: Massive Expansion of Executive Power by Executive Orders
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/0… “It’s a tacit acknowledgment of an increasingly dysfunctional, polarized system of government — one that is beyond any one candidate’s ability to repair. Against that backdrop, the thinking goes, a prospective president’s only...
Liberal mega-donors plan $100 million swing-state blitz to beat Trump
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/0…
Ticket Prices Slashed to $2 to See Bill and Hill — In Los Angeles
How things have changed for the Clintons when their joint-appearance ticket prices need to be lowered to $2 in the Dem stronghold of LA.
Sanders Decries Grotesque Concentration of Wealth and Inequality
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/…
Sanders’ gun votes are again a potential liability among Democratic base
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-el…
Cigna CEO on ‘Medicare for all’: We’re ‘well-positioned’ for a variety of scenarios
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cigna-ceo…
Insurers’ message on ‘Medicare for All’: We’re part of the answer
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/insu…
New York Times Admits Obama Admin Deployed Multiple Spies Against Trump Campaign In 2016
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/02/new…
Barr’s Review of FBI ‘Spying’ on Trump Campaign Has Wide Reach
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With AOC? Let’s Analyze The Memes
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lam… “It’s the purest embodiment of a growing subject of academic research: how social media platforms allow politicians to “perform authenticity,” and — this is the important thing here — how “the political candidates’...
Mother Jones: That Time Joe Biden Lied About His Academic Credentials
That Time Joe Biden Lied About His Academic Credentials
A parody website with embarrassing photos of Joe Biden is outranking his official campaign page on Google
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/03/joe-bide…
What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders’s Long-Lost TV Show.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/…
Goodman: What I Bet You Don’t Know About Health Savings Accounts
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman…
Podcast by KHN: Dems Bring Gun Groups into Health Care Politics
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Bye-Bye, ACA, And Hello ‘Medicare-For-All’? The House “spending bill also would add $50 million for research on gun violence. Public health advocates hope researchers can identify factors that may...
Uncertainty has Caused Wall Street to Dump Health Care Stocks
https://www.axios.com/wall-street-health…
Humana just vowed to fight ‘Medicare for All’ plans in Washington
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/01/another-…
FOX News: Chris Jacobs on ‘Medicare-for-all,’ will raise taxes, force hospital layoffs
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/medicar…
Vox: 3 key moments from the House’s first-ever Medicare-for-all hearing
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
Nellie Ohr’s ‘Hi Honey’ emails to DOJ about Russia collusion should alarm us all
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/…
Sen. Graham: Russia Collusion Investigators at FBI and Justice about to be on the Receiving End
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/…
‘This is the face of the health-care crisis’: Woman issues plea to Nova Scotia premier (gone viral)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot…
Exclusive: WageWorks confirms receiving HealthEquity’s acquisition bid
https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/am…
House lawmakers hold first-ever hearing on Medicare For All plan
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/04/…
Medicare-for-All FUD Cited for Humana Stock Drop
“The problem is, to borrow a phrase from the world of crypto, the “FUD” (fear uncertainty and doubt), the Medicare For All movement has created, and will continue to create.”
Here’s the math that proves Medicare for All would be great for US taxpayers
Here’s the math that proves Medicare for All would be great for US taxpayers
Democrats’ historic, messy, first-ever Medicare-for-all hearings, explained
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
Biden calls for everyone having the choice to buy into Medicare
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/44…
Biden Backs Medicare Public Option: ‘You All Should Have a Choice”
https://www.newsweek.com/2020-candidate-…
Politico: U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/2…
Bank of America Launches HSA Digital Platform: Portfolio Products
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2019/04/29/…
Biden Opposes Single Payer Health Care
Industry lobbyists aren’t certain Biden will win. One Democratic health care lobbyist grimly predicted to me Sanders would take the Democratic nomination. A trade association leader brought up Biden’s two previous failed presidential bids....
Politico: Democrats dismiss Biden as the front-runner in name only
“In another election, at another time, the late entrance of a well-funded candidate leading in the polls might send convulsions through the primary field. But Joe Biden’s arrival into the 2020 race has not...
Jenkins in the WSJ: ObamaCare Is Popular Because It Failed
https://www.wsj.com/articles/obamacare-i…
Trump waits on ObamaCare, Americans list health care as the top worry
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/health-ca…
FBI spying on Trump campaign may have continued after election, two senators say
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201…
Fusion Power has Become “a question of engineering and economics,” not science
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/fus…
“Biden is an existential threat to your candidate,” says one progressive activist. “So you have to f**k him up.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/…
“As 2020 approaches, some see the Intercept as the political site of the moment”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/…
The Cost of the GOP No Votes on Health Care Reform: High Levels of GOP Voter Support for M4A
High levels of GOP support for various Medicare for All proposals (see graph below) is a manifestation of Medicare for All filling the political vacuum left by the GOP health care reform failure. The...
Morning Consult Poll: +/- 1 Percent Margin of Error on M4A Options
The glaring poll numbers, that should jump out at you, are the percent of support from Republicans for these various Medicare-for-all proposals.
Kamala Harris: If you like your healthcare plan, you’re an unwitting shill for the insurance industry
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
Harris: “I believe that we need to get rid of this president.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/kamala-h…
Battle of Mogadishu veteran responds to Ilhan Omar’s criticism of ‘Black Hawk Down’ mission
https://www.yahoo.com/news/battle-mogadi…
The Atlantic: The former vice president has finally decided he’s in, and he’s announcing in less than a week. Now he just has to finish putting a campaign together.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
Why Nancy Pelosi Is So Comfortable Dismissing the Influence of AOC and Her Fellow Lefties
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019…
The Democratic Party is cracking down on candidates who hope to be the next AOC
https://www.businessinsider.com/democrat…
Bernie Sanders’s campaign escalates fight with establishment Democrats in reprise of 2016 party rifts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…
How the Bernie Campaign and The New York Times Declared Open Season on Neera Tanden
https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/how-t…
Get a good lawyer, Jim Comey. You, too, John Brennan and James Clapper.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/18/release-of…
Bernie Sanders Won’t Support House Democrats’ Plan to Strengthen ObamaCare
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/b…
ObamaCare Made Big Health Insurers Very Rich, What Could Medicare For All Do To Them?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdo…
Citing ‘Spying’ On Trump, Barr Says He Is Looking Into Origins Of Russia Inquiry
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711852861…
Mueller’s done, and Dems should be too — because Trump is no Nixon
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/…
Joe diGenova: With full Mueller report out, time to go after the real conspirators
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/joe-dige…
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel: Mueller report scandal no one is talking about . . . the Obama administration
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rnc-chai…
Why Democrats Freaked Out When Barr Said The Trump Campaign Was Spied On
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/15/dem…
Kim Foxx deputies resigning after Jussie Smollett scandal
https://pagesix.com/2019/04/18/kim-foxx-…
Genes which prevent four million people gaining weight discovered, in new hope for slimming medicine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019…
Bloomberg: ‘Bernie or Bust’ Voters Create Predicament for Democrats in 2020
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Graph: Medicare for All Political Risk Takes a Toll on Health Care Stocks
These levels are closing in on the post-election lows after the Dem take-over of the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2018.
The Silence from Joe Biden is Deafening, or, Where is Jill?
Recently, at the local cigar-watering hole in Washington, D.C., a legendary former Dem Senate staffer asked a simple question: Where is Jill Biden? In other words, why hasn’t former Vice President Joe Biden’s wife...
Nancy Pelosi takes another shot at AOC and says a ‘glass of water with a D next to it’ could have won the 29-year-old’s seat before warning her not to ‘menace’ voters
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
AOC Rising: Retained Talent Agency, Was In Talks To Write A Book
AOC Retained Talent Agency, Was In Talks To Write A Book
Liberals’ frustration with Pelosi rises over her response to Omar dispute
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Libe…
‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/…
Sanders town hall audience cheers after Fox News host asks if they’d support ‘Medicare for All’
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/43…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook, calls social media a ‘public health risk’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Trump’s Budget Could Open HSAs to People on Medicare
Trump‘s budget could open this tax-free savings account to people on Medicare