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Trumpcare Was for CEOs, Not Patients
It appears that House Speaker Paul Ryan's 123-page legislative plan for Trumpcare, the GOP's so-called "replacement" for Obamacare, is dead — for now, anyway. Republicans tried to rush it through, but not before the Congressional Budget Office discovered it was...
Emperor Trump
In OtherWords: March 22, 2017
House Republicans are racing ahead with their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. This week in OtherWords, we take a look at one of the less covered aspects of the GOP plan: its impact on America's devastating opioid crisis. My hometown of Dayton, Ohio...
The GOP Health Plan Would Make the Opioid Crisis Even Worse
"We will give people struggling with addiction access to the help they need," Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail in 2016. We’re in the midst of the worst opioid epidemic our country has seen. More people died last year from opioid overdoses than ever before —...
Underwater Nation
Are you or a loved one having trouble staying afloat? You're truly not alone. While the media reports low unemployment and a rising stock market, the reality is that almost 20 percent of the country lives in "Underwater Nation," with zero or even negative net worth....
Jeff Sessions Thinks Pot Is as Bad as Heroin. That’s So Wrong.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently called marijuana use a "life-wrecking dependency" that is "only slightly less awful" than heroin. Really? If that were true, maybe my little brother would be alive. I don't know the full story of my brother's drug use. He kept...
Funny, There Are No Workers on the White House Jobs Panel
By golly, The Donald delivers. Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold new initiative to create millions of American jobs. A spokesman for the panel, Steve Schwarzman, praised Trump as a leader who wants to "do things a lot...
Muslim Ban 2.0
In OtherWords: March 15, 2017
Not long ago, Donald Trump promised that his replacement for Obamacare would provide "insurance for everybody." But the latest numbers from the Congressional Budget Office say 24 million Americans would actually lose coverage under the Republican bill circulating...
Going After the Opioid Profiteers
Travis Bornstein never told his friends about his son Tyler’s drug problem. He was too embarrassed. Then, on September 28, 2014, Tyler’s body was found in a vacant lot in Akron, Ohio. The 23-year-old had become addicted to opioid pain killers after several...
