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Apr 6, 2022·edited Apr 6, 2022

Your points couldn't be clearer nor more significant.

1. The ACA must endure and be improved upon!

2. Abortion IS a constitutional right!

3. The right wing is/has been embracing authoritarianism!

4. "What's there to oppose in a nod to democratic values and diplomacy when Ukraine" is defending itself "against an invasion and brutal occupation."

5. The resolution to affirm the House's "unequivocal support" for NATO is a must!

6. The 63 Republicans should be ashamed of themselves!

I stand in favor of all the above!

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I was at an international seminar in Europe when the ACA was being debated, the first time. I had people from all over the world asking me "why don't Americans want healthcare?" Right here in Maine, I have a neighbor who's told me flat out "healthcare is a privilege not a right."

If we let government slip back into the hands of Republicans, that's on us.

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Russia needs to be expelled from the UN and cut off from all international bodies. They need to be treated the way North Korea is treated.

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Based on blood analysis, roughly 50% of the USA has had Covid. This percentage will increase. The bizarre side effects often much delayed, even after asymptomatic Covid, are an ever expanding list. This is before we get to debilitating Long Covid. If the useless GOP repeals Obamacare, over half the population will have a pre-existing condition (Covid) for which there is no health insurance coverage. Because of the bizarre post-Covid side effects, insurance companies will be able to claim almost anything is a Covid related pre-existing condition! It is just amazing AMAZING that in a deadly pandemic the useless GOP is not 'tarred and feathered' for mentioning repeal of Obamacare! What is wrong with people?!?!

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"Am I my brother's keeper?" No, says 42% of Americans, blindly following hypocritical, evangelical shysters.

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I’m in London for a few days and listening to the news about the incompetence of the Tories to manage pretty much anything. But they can’t hold a candle to the sheer evil, cynicism, and bloody mindedness of today’s Ghastly Obstructionist Party.

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Thank you for today's Letter, Dr. R! To add to the plate is the push to prohibit Louis DeJoy from going ahead with his deal to purchase a new fleet of "non-union built gas-guzzling mail delivery trucks despite directives from the Biden administration to green the federal fleet." According to the latest news, it's not too late. Here's a link to send a message to your Congress reps to Save the USPS: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-block-dejoys-bad-deal-the-usps-contract-must-require-at-least-75-electric-trucks-2/?source=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&referrer=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stop_dejoys_bad_deal&link_id=2&can_id=fd80a86766186aa12fbef1b71efa86b9&email_referrer=email_1501561&email_subject=dejoy-is-feeling-the-pressure&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_1501561

Here is HR 7018, a bill sponsored by Rep Gerry Connolly and co-sponsored by approx. 74 Reps to "prohibit the United States Postal Service from carrying out a contract for the procurement of next generation vehicle fleet unless such fleet is at least 75 percent electric or zero emission vehicles, and for other purposes":

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7018/text?r=2&s=1

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Thank you once again Heather for a succinct, non-hysterical view of the world. May your days be numerous.

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Professor HCR, your letter is filled with so many critical issues and analysis for today’s news. All news. Thank you for selecting important quotes and the essentials. I keep going back to this question: Why do the repubs want to dismantle or cripple every law, policy, regulation, even when the American people, both Dems and repubs benefit? Why do 42% of Americans not like the Affordable Care Act? What would they prefer?

And your ending comments and statistics about the resolution introduced by Democrat Gerry Connolly reaffirming support for NATO, passing with bipartisan vote:

“After all, what’s there to oppose in a nod to democratic values and diplomacy, when Ukraine is locked in a deadly battle to defend itself against an invasion and brutal occupation by Russian forces directed by authoritarian Russian president Vladimir Putin?”

“Sixty-three Republicans—those who tend to support former president Trump—voted against the resolution.”

Toddlers say “NO” and “me do it” just because. What’s the reason repubs vote against a humanitarian resolution and so many social programs? What is their purpose? Do they remember their oath?

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In the poll about the ACA, it would be interesting to see the income breakdown. I bet it follows the support statistics. Are the contingent of Congress and the Senate that voted against ACA and this expansion willing to give up their free medical care and help their fellow humans pay medical bills. My guess is "no". And, I will also hazard that those same people have no concept of what medical costs are. If you quizzed those who voted against a lower cost for insulin, would they know? Without help, instead of being able to walk like those representatives, I would be in a wheelchair for the last 15 years and into the future as my hip replacements cost close to $100,000.

I would also guess that those who want to scrap the ACA have NO concept of how much it will cost the states. What's their solution? Omigosh, I forgot. They have a "beautiful " plan and we'll hear about it in "just 2 weeks "

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Thank you Heather.

Ron Johnson's statement is very much the mantra of the GOP.

I overheard a conversation the other day between 2 Republicans that was basically seeped in " when we take over in November ". Please note, the jargon wasn't, "when we win".

The difference being a take over verses a legitimate election.

Frankly, this conversation was not between 2 crazies still jawing about gas prices.

When the guard changes, everything good that Biden has done will be reversed. We are as dangerously in peril today as we were January 6th. Nothing has changed.

Be safe. Be well.

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Smh... those 63 Republicans obviously lack any humanity and should be voted out of office at the earliest opportunity.

"After all, what’s there to oppose in a nod to democratic values and diplomacy, when Ukraine is locked in a deadly battle to defend itself against an invasion and brutal occupation by Russian forces directed by authoritarian Russian president Vladimir Putin?

Sixty-three Republicans—those who tend to support former president Trump—voted against the resolution."

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I attended a webinar last night about the threat to Medicare of sneaking privatization due to "Direct Contracting Entities" also known as the REACH program. It allows private firms to insert themselves as managed (or accountable) care organizations between the government and doctors to "manage" care (and skim substantial profits off the top. This apparently started under Trump and hasn't yet been stopped. Check out protectmedicare.net or pnhp.org for more info.

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Anyone watching current affairs who doesn't see that these scum are The Enemy and that there's no "understanding" them to bring them around, probably believes the Easter Bunny is coming Sunday to personally give them their chocolate eggs on a day when the sun has risen in the west. And this time they don't get to take the horses home for spring planting, no letting them off easy like the last time.

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Why is it that the millionaire GOP senators want to take away medical coverage from average income and low income Americans? I think it's a desire by their patrons, billionaire families like the Kochs, to return to the Gilded Age and its sensibilities. That was a time ( late 1800s) when the rich got rich and there was a core belief that some were better than others. A selct few were entitled to be the decision makers. The Vanderbilts and Goulds are the Kochs' role models. Not so good for the rest of us.

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Why hasn't the Democratic party hired a kick-a$$ marketing firm?? Time to get serious and refute the lies!

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