Why not single-payer?

HR676 is a publicly financed, privately delivered, improved and expanded Medicare for all. It provides comprehensive health care services, including preventive, dental, vision, mental health, prescription drugs, long term care, among others. No deductibles, no co-pays. Your choice of physicians and hospitals. Comprehensive coverage would certainly “fit all.” Out-of-control increases in premiums fit nobody.

Have you written a letter to your local newspaper explaining Medicare for All? Clearly letters to the editor will be the only way we get this into the larger press.

The Kucinich recount is under way today. Unfortunately, Kucinich is doing a Nader version where he is only going to recount a few large Diebold precincts and then call it a day. Just like Nader before him, the electronic results will match the hand count.

[EDIT] Some Kucinich folks claim they are counting the whole state.

The bigger question that everyone seems to missing is the little matter of who handled these ballots since election night. I have heard rumors that the LHS shady company that is the one-stop shop for New England voting, in addition to programming the machines, tabulating the memory cards, also dropped off and picked up the machines and possibly all of the paper ballots.  Read more 

Hillary wins! [the popular vote] Surprise, the Iowa caucuses aren’t a winner-take-all national primary! And it’s all good, because now we can get all the candidates to pander to us, instead of the Village, and shove the Overton Window left.

But the really good news is that while I was listening to the results on The Young Turks, I heard some astonishing music during a station break, and asked the chat line “Who the hell is that?” “Public Enemy,” came the response.

So, I guess rap must be about to die, since I am a really, really lagging indicator. Herewith, the only YouTube I could find that’s not “embedding disabled by request”; it seems appropriate, somehow:  Read more