Medicare for All Backers Argue It’s a Better Solution Than Whatever President Trump Is Cooking Up

CommonDreams.org:

As President Donald Trump postpones unveiling his supposed plan to tackle soaring US healthcare costs—reportedly after pushback from congressional Republicans—Medicare for All advocates have renewed calls for shifting to a single-payer system. “Republicans have a million ideas regarding healthcare. Except one,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who caucuses with Democrats, said on social media Monday afternoon. “They will never acknowledge that healthcare is a human right—to be guaranteed to ALL.” 

 

The union National Nurses United also called for Medicare for All on Monday, pointing to a recent West Health/Gallup poll that found 47% of US adults are worried they won’t be able to afford healthcare next year, the highest level since they began tracking in 2021. 

 

“The urgency around this is real,” West Health president Timothy Lash told NBC News. “When you look at the economic strain that is on families right now, even if healthcare prices didn’t rise, the costs are rising elsewhere, which only exacerbates the problem.”

Of course, when it comes to messaging, Republicans face a major problem on healthcare: despite years spent trying to dismantle Obamacare, the GOP still doesn’t have a replacement plan. And with premiums expected to skyrocket once Obamacare expires at the end of the year, the lack of any viable alternative leaves the GOP in a politically disastrous position as well as a bleak outlook for them as they head into next year’s midterms.

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Trump Adminostration Sued Over Food Stamp Freeze

CBSNews.com:

A coalition of officials from half of the states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over the suspension of food stamp benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown, as millions of Americans brace for a disruption in federal food aid in the coming days.

The states, which include California, New York and Pennsylvania, are asking a federal judge in Massachusetts to order the Department of Agriculture to provide benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for November, including by tapping into a contingency fund to ensure the assistance continues to flow to more than 25 million people living within their borders.

They argue that the administration's decision to cut off food stamp payments, which are provided to roughly 42 million people nationwide, is unlawful and threatens to deprive millions of Americans of essential food benefits that help protect against food insecurity and hunger.

Of course, both sides are to blame for this food stamp situation. What with Democrats openly admitting that they're using this shutdown for 'leverage', while Republicans could end the shutdown by doing what Democrat Senator John Fetterman recently suggested: 'nuke' the filibuster to end it. Nonetheless, I'm guessing that the Democrat states using will be be able to find some judge out there to side with the,, putting the GOP in a very awkward spot if they try to appeal.

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