Capital & Main, a major source on investigative journalism, reports on a dramatic surge in the number of uninsured people in the first three years of Trump’s term. Health insurance was a decisive issue in the 2018 elections, and may be decisive again this year as the number of vulnerable people grows.
Danny Feingold, publisher of Capital & Main, writes:
Capital & Main just published a major news story on the large increase under Donald Trump of uninsured Americans in battleground states. This article, based on original analysis of new Census data released today, is the first to report that nearly 1.6 million more people in battleground states were uninsured during Trump’s initial three years in office.
The data do not reflect the millions of additional people who are estimated to have lost health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our story by senior reporter Jessica Goodheart — co-published by USA Today – reports that Florida saw an increase of nearly a quarter million uninsured during Trump’s first three years, while North Carolina, Arizona and Ohio each saw the number of people without health insurance rise by more than 100,000. Texas had by far the largest increase in uninsured residents, with nearly 700,00 people, while other key battleground states including Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa also saw a significant rise in those without health insurance.
There is NO plan for an improved healthcare insurance. Trump keeps telling us that his plan will be much better. It doesn’t matter how many times he says it, he is lying again.
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“I have it all ready,” Trump said Tuesday. “I have it all ready and it’s a much better plan for you and it’s a much better plan.”
“Obamacare was a disaster,” Trump continued. “Obamacare was too expensive, the premiums are too high. It’s a total disaster. You’re going to have new health care and the pre-existing aspect of it will always be in my plan. I’ve said that loud and clear.”
Yes. Those words repeated today and they are lies.
Can you wrap your head around people who say that Biden should be embracing Medicare for All like Trump says he is, because if not, people who are concerned with health care will vote for Trump and his wonderful secret plan over expanded health care coverage and a public option for Medicare.
The GOP plan has always been you’re on your own and if you do get sick uninsured, just die already. Libertarian health care plan: find charities or set up go fund me sites.
Sure seems like Medicare for All would be a winning strategy to convince a lot of those uninsured people to vote blue….
Of course it would be. The DNC and its players made sure that only a candidate beholden to insurance companies and big donors would be the nominee.
I think you mean that the DNC and its players made sure that only a candidate beholden to UNIONS would be the nominee. I know that’s true because Trump keeps warning people in states with lots of unions that the Democrats will take away their private health insurance. While I know some people truly believe that all union members are desperate to trade their hard won health benefits for Medicare, clearly Trump is so certain that isn’t true that he is campaigning on the lie that Biden IS supporting Medicare for All!
If the unions with one voice rejected their health care benefits and demanded Medicare for All instead, I’m quite sure that the Dems would support it and I’m quite sure Trump would be delighted to tell all Americans that they were going to lose their private health benefits if they vote for Biden.
Eleanor, that’s ridiculous. Joe Biden won a landslide in South Carolina. The Democratic establishment did not want him. Black voters did.
Well, except all of the union workers and other Americans with excellent private health care would hear Trump explain — as he did at the town hall last night — that Biden supports Medicare for All and plans to take away their health insurance!
The clear proof that Trump knows that Medicare for All is – unfortunately – a LOSING issue is that Trump keeps saying over and over again that Joe Biden supports Medicare for All!
Cognizant Americans who don’t have an agenda ALL want expanded health care coverage over Trump’s promise to end all health care coverage and replace it with his own “plan” that’s coming out in two weeks! I know that it’s true because Trump has been saying his plan is coming out in two weeks for two years!
I can’t wait because of course the people who trust Trump and are worried about being uninsured will definitely vote for Trump because Biden will only expand Medicare coverage and provide a public option for the ACA.
Although it is very confusing, since they also plan to vote for Trump because Trump says that Biden supports Medicare for All and will take away their private health insurance!
Catch-22. But the bottom line is that it is clear that everyone will vote for Trump who believes Trump. And those who know Trump is a liar will vote for Biden because they would rather have MORE health care coverage than NO health care coverage, which is that mysterious, never to be released “plan” that anyone with an ounce of sense knows that Trump supports. And if they don’t, they believe Trump and care voting for him because they are afraid of Biden since Trump says Biden supports Medicare for All!
Ady Barkan is a huge supporter of Medicare for All. Biden told him – truthfully – exactly what he supported, which was expanded health care coverage and a public option for the ACA. Any Barkan, being a rational American who is really a progressive, understands how awful Trump’s plan is and would much prefer Biden’s plan – even though it isn’t Medicare for All – to Trump’s. That’s what real progressives understand.
I signed up for some far R media sites just so I can read the garbage they are spewing. [I didn’t sign up for this weirdo.] They normally don’t have links. This is incredibly destructive because some people believe what is being printed.
BLM are now made up of far-left lunatics.
This comes from Mad Patriot News:
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BLM Bringing ‘Protest Parties’ to Trump Supporters’ Homes
September 16, 2020 Ryan Green
On Tuesday evening, a Trump supporter was arrested for holding a shotgun by the window of his own home as it was surrounded by a mob of far-left lunatics — and it turns out it wasn’t this group’s first time showing up at the home of a random person to “protest” and intimidate.
On a Facebook page called “Justice Tour 2020,” Vaun L Mayes, a man who describes himself as “Milwaukee’s Malcolm X,” has been posting personal information on Trump supporters. The page is littered with people’s phone numbers, addresses, and calls for crowds to show up at their homes for “protest parties.”
Former Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales was also targeted by the group, who repeatedly held “protest parties” outside his home.
“The protesters say they’re “bringing the fight against racism to front doors.” But Ald. Nikiya Dodd — who represents the 5th District, where Morales lives — says the protests are a nuisance and a threat to public safety that must be addressed immediately,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported in July.
Morales was demoted back to a captain in August for using tear gas and pepper spray against rioters.
Mayes uses the “protest party” terrorism and the doxing on his page to solicit money through PayPal.
On Tuesday evening, the mob was at the home of a random man that they claimed is “racist.”
Members of the mob claimed on social media that their actions were justified because he has a confederate flag. The flag was not seen in the videos, but an American and Trump flag were hanging prominently on the front of his home.
The mob called the police on the man, who appears to have been arrested, for holding a gun in the window. The typically anti-cop “activists” cheered like a pack of wild hyenas as he was lead away from his home, where they had been threatening and terrorizing him for several hours.
The Gateway Pundit has reached out to both PayPal and Facebook to ask about the potential violations of their terms of service. We will update this story if a comment is provided.
via thegatewaypundit
With every passing moment of every day, trump LIES and commits treason.
Healthcare policy is really wonky stuff and the costs appear to be immense and I don’t know how to make the economics work. But I think we have a moral problem here, and we need to find a way to make some version of universal healthcare happen.
FLERP!: The first thing the U.S. needs to do is to stop spending so much on the military. I say, “Defund the Military’ and use some of that money that only destroys and kills to help Americans have decent healthcare. Fund agencies that are helping people all over the world.
Second, stop funding the NSA from unknown amounts of money that are always available to spy on all citizens of the U.S. and overseas.
There is ALWAYS money for killing, maiming and spying…but never money to have decent healthcare or other needed social services.
It’s a matter of priorities.
FLERP!
Not to worry, Trump has a plan for health care coverage. I know that’s true because I heard Trump say it at the town hall last night.
Sure that corrupt and lying left wing media host George Stephanopoulos reminded viewers that Trump has said he has had a plan for years, but I certainly trust Trump’s plan for covering all of my family’s health needs far more than I trust the lying democrats and the lying media.
Hey, Kentucky: TIME TO DITCH MITCH.
I like, when politicians’ homes are protested against. 😁
Cut the politicians’ salaries and healthcare, to fund our healthcare. 🤔
Trump will lie repeatedly if he hasn’t already started, that the Democrats and/or Obama and Hillary are to blame for any lost health insurance and never accept responsibility. The Always Trumpers will believe him because they don’t care if what he says is a lie or not, and the Never Trumpers will not …
In short, nothing will change. Trump will keep his support base even if it is stuck at about 42%.
The loss of health care by 2.3 people is enough of a reason to vote for Biden and the Democrats that may not be perfect, but at least they will try not to kill people. There is some hope of change with them, and there is no hope with the conservatives.
I had lots of reading time yesterday during the hurricane that left us without electricity and phones. I read the current issue of Kiplinger’s. I was surprised to read that retiree health care costs are climbing due to Medicare covering less and more people depending on private supplement insurance. Kiplinger’s estimated that if Americans retire at 62, it will cost the average person $295,000 for insurance and supplemental insurance once Medicare kicks in at age 65. It is a shocking number, and it does not include long term care insurance! Medicare Advantage plans are not a great solution either, They place decisions about health totally in the hands of insurance industry that can deny coverage for life saving procedures. https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/insurance/health-insurance/601241/climbing-retiree-health-costs
This is the crap that is coming from Patriot Pulse, THE TRUE VOICE OF THE AMERICAN RIGHT
George Soros is playing one secret role in starting a Civil War if Trump wins in November
The Left is making it clear they intend to contest the 2020 election.
Joe Biden and the Democrats will not let Donald Trump claim victory.
And now George Soros is playing one secret role in starting a Civil War if Trump wins in November.
Democrats are preparing for violence on American streets if Donald Trump declares victory in the 2020 election.
A group called “Protect the Results” is promising mass protests and mobilizations to contest Trump claiming victory.
On the group’s website, it describes its mission as “We will honor the valid results of the 2020 election, ensure that every vote is counted, and show up to demand that the losing candidate put their ego aside and concede for the good of our country.”
In American Greatness, conservative journalist Julie Kelly described the group’s connections to George Soros.
Kelly wrote:
“Started as a Google document detailing techniques for opposing the Republican agenda under Mr. Trump, [Indivisible] now has a mostly Washington-based staff of about 40 people, with more than 6,000 volunteer chapters across the country,” the New York Times reported in 2017. That year, Indivisible raised nearly $8 million, a figure we presume is much higher in 2020. The group’s policy director is a former advisor for an immigration advocacy center partially funded by grants from Soros.
Other Soros-funded entities including MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, 350Action, and Women’s March are listed as Protect the Results partners. In an interview last month, Soros, a longtime Trump nemesis, suggested the president will be indicted if he loses in November “because he has violated the Constitution in many different ways.” One scenario war-gamed out by the post-election plotters is criminal charges brought against Donald Trump and his associates for unspecified crimes.
Other reporting has described what the left has planned as “Black Lives Matter on steroids.”
Now George Soros is flexing his financial muscle by funding groups that will organize massive protests to bully Republicans into conceding an election where Donald Trump declares victory.
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PULSE POLL: Will Democrats start a Civil War if Donald Trump wins the election?*
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Diane, the Democratic Establishment clearly wanted a Centrist. They are smart enough to do their work behind the scenes. The sudden departure of Buttigieg and Klobachur, the millions in fawning press coverage by MSNBC, CNN & the MSM clearly paved the way.
WRT South Carolina primary, Rep. Jim Clyburn, a civil rights icon who now has far surpassed his peers in campaign dollars (more than $1 million) from Big PharMa, put his thumb on the scale with his endorsement in South Carolina, a state that a Democratic candidate has not carried since 1960.
We’ll see how aggressive Joe Biden once in office. Whose voices will he heed the most? Wall Street? Never Trumpers? Or the vast majority of struggling Americans?
Should the Democrats insist on governing in the Clinton/Obama mode, they will be paving the way to install a smarter version of #45 – such as a Tom Cotton – in 2024. And that will be even worse than what we have faced now.
A rising wive of progressives are working hard to make the changes needed. Many of the Establishment Democrats are to the right of FDR. The state of Rhode Island offers a preview of what is to come.
https://theintercept.com/2020/09/11/rhode-island-democrat-primary-progressive-wave/
Oh my. Trump is signing an executive order launching the teaching of patriotic education for our students. Got to get rid of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. [I hate to think of what this will mean. The earth is 6,000 years old and Trump is the greatest president this country has ever had. You will bow, as you enter the classroom, to a large photo of the president that will be placed at the front of the room. We will never submit to tyranny, unless it comes from Trump or the oligarchs.]
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1600 Daily
The White House • September 17, 2020
President Trump: ‘Our youth will be taught to love America with all of their heart’
President Trump is fighting each day against the left’s attempts to indoctrinate our children with a radical, misleading, and unpatriotic story of America.
Divisive and distorted histories of our country—everything from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to The New York Times’ 1619 Project—seek to erase America’s tradition of liberty, free expression, and self-determination from memory.
For too long, the left has been winning that fight. For example, even though the 1619 Project has been criticized as inaccurate by multiple prominent historians, it already has been quietly disseminated in 4,500 classrooms across the United States.
🎬 President Trump: We must stop the lies in America’s classrooms
Today marks 233 years since the signing of our U.S. Constitution. To honor this Constitution Day, President Trump spoke at the White House Conference on American History held today at the National Archives building in Washington, D.C. The event brought together scholars to address the way some have distorted American history.
“Our Constitution was the product of centuries of tradition, wisdom, and experience,” President Trump said. “No political document has done more to advance the human condition or propel the engine of progress.”
The President also announced today that he would sign an executive order launching the “1776 Commission,” which will promote patriotic education for our students. The commission will encourage educators to make plans to celebrate the 250th birthday of America’s founding, as well.
Earlier this month, President Trump banned Federal agencies from using taxpayer dollars to fund divisive, anti-American employee training programs.
“American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture in our work, or the repression of traditional faith, culture, and values in the public square,” the President said today.
When left-wing mobs tear down statues of our Founding Fathers, burn small businesses to the ground, and attack law enforcement officers daily—all with barely a peep from Democrat politicians—it is clear we are witnessing the results of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools, universities, and news media.
“We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny,” President Trump told those gathered at the National Archives today.
“We will reclaim our history and our country for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed.”
Trump supporters are saying that the tests are inaccurate [raising the numbers falsely] and that deaths by other diseases are counted as COVID-19 deaths. We all know that Trump has done marvelous things to keep the numbers down. /s He kept people from China coming to the U.S. Thousands came from China and from Europe to the U.S. after that but they don’t count.
Trump doesn’t want to shake hands with his supporters. “I don’t like shaking hands with people, I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people.”
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Total U.S. coronavirus deaths reported each morning this week: Monday, 194,081; Tuesday, 194,536; Wednesday, 195,942; Thursday, 196,802; Friday, 197,643.
Global cases of COVID-19 now exceed 30 million.
Worldometer says US has passed 200,000 deaths.
Diane, I got the statistics and sent it to ONE of my known Trump supporters. I chickened out on sending it to others that I know. She doesn’t quit corresponding to me when I send facts. She just knows they are lying.
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National News
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
US Death Toll Reaches 200,000
The United States, long the epicenter for the novel coronavirus, has hit another grim milestone. There are over 200,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the US, according to Worldometer. The US has over 6.7 million confirmed infections, which also leads the world.
The US states with the most confirmed cases are:
California: 768,601 confirmed cases; 14,615 deaths.
Texas: 704,813 confirmed cases; 14,730 deaths.
Florida: 668,846 confirmed cases; 12,788 deaths.
New York: 479,184 confirmed cases; 33,141 deaths.
Georgia: 296,833 confirmed cases; 6,398 deaths.
COVID-19 May Have Circulated in US as Early as December, UCLA Study Finds
The SARS-CoV-2 virus may have arrived and spread in the US as early as December, according to researchers from UCLA – about a month early than previously believed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, which appeared last week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, found a statistically significant spike in clinic and hospital visits from patients who reported respiratory illness as early as the week of December 22.
https://www.docwirenews.com/docwire-pick/hem-onc-picks/covid-19-update-us-death-toll-hits-200000-virus-may-have-circulated-in-us-as-early-as-december-and-more/
Here is a church pastor who knows that wearing masks isn’t necessary…a true follower of the “Chosen One”.
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North Idaho pastor who balked at masks contracts COVID-19. So do some church staffers
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 12:09 PM
Candlelight Christian Fellowship’s Paul Van Noy, who is both the senior and founding pastor at the church, opens a May morning service at Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. LIBBY KAMROWSKITHE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
Read more here: https://www.idahostatesman.com/article245806315.html#storylink=cpy
A North Idaho pastor who opened his large church in early May for in-person services that allowed and even encouraged unmasked congregants to gather has been recovering from COVID-19 at a Coeur d’Alene hospital.
Paul Van Noy, the senior pastor at Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene, has spent the past two weeks in the Kootenai Health intensive care unit while his wife, Brenda Van Noy, recovered from her own bout with COVID-19 at home.
Five other church staff members have been infected, said Eric Reade, body ministry coordinator the church…
While masks are mandated in Kootenai County, Van Noy has expressed doubts about the efficacy of mask-wearing to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. He is known to bring his political views to the pulpit.
‘VIRUS REAL,’ BUT ‘PANIC IS CAUSING PROBLEMS’…
Read more here: https://www.idahostatesman.com/article245806315.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/coronavirus/article245806315.html
WaPo:
China worries what a desperate Trump might do: “With the U.S. election approaching and Trump’s prospects hanging in the balance, China is increasingly worried that its adversary in the White House will try to provoke a confrontation — perhaps through military action — to boost his chances of reelection,” Anna Fifield reports.
“Influential academics in Beijing fear he will turbocharge his attacks to generate support and distract from domestic problems, such as unemployment and the devastating coronavirus death toll that has highlighted Trump’s slow response to the pandemic. When Trump took office, many here thought that he was looking for a tweetable victory in his trade war with Beijing … Now, advisers to the ruling Communist Party concede they may have been wrong to think there would be limits to what Trump would do against China.”