Tag: Medicare

Medicare-Medicaid’s Mercury ‘eclipsed’ in August 2017

Republicans Again Target Medicare-Medicaid as the Heavens Blink

by Jude Cowell

The LBJ Library website has details on the signing of the 1965 Medicare Amendment to the Social Security Act on July 30, 1965 in Independence, Missouri at the Truman Library. The Amendment also established Medicaid and in January 1966, President Johnson returned to the Truman Library and presented Harry and Bess

The GOP Has No Alternative to Obamacare Because the ACA WAS The Republican Plan – video

In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Obama while transit Neptune sat upon America’s natal Moon in Aquarius, aka, We the People, and the Great Conjunction/s of the inflationary/speculator/wastrel pair, Jupiter and Neptune, had sprinkled dreamy fairy dust over our Moon and hearts all through 2009, Mr. Obama’s first year in office. Little sense of reality prevailed

For my Republican Friends: Thomas Jefferson on Religion and Conscience – and John Kasich

Perhaps you’ll join me in my current mood for considering a revealing quote from Thomas Jefferson on the topic of religion which Republican politicians seem to compulsively use for burnishing their political status among Evangelicals and other Americans of a religious persuasion (conservative or liberal) who may be tempted to vote in November 2016 for intolerant, austerity-promoting,

An Astro-Peek at Rep. Paul Ryan

An Astro-Peek at Rep. Paul Ryan, Social Darwinist and Rep of the 1%by Jude CowellBorn on January 29, 1970 in Janesville, Wisconsin, Mr. Ryan’s Sun is in the range of 8AQ55 to 9AQ56. His natal Moon ranges from 22Lib49 to 5Sco36, making him either a Sun AQ-Moon Lib, or a Sun AQ-Moon Sco. Both personality combos are detailed below.Using a noon chart for reference, there’s a compulsive-obsessive

Sign Deficit Super Committee Petition: No Safety Net Cuts!

This ‘just in’ to my inbox–if you care about our social safety net programs and know someone who depends on them, perhaps you’ll add your John Hancock, too:Dear Friend, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are in danger. But the biggest threat isn’t driven by economics, it’s driven by politics. Twelve members of Congress from the House and Senate have been newly empowered to force both