by MCDC | Nov 23, 2013 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Satire, Video
by Mark Fiore After Obama announced his temporary fix to the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance companies were up in arms about how this would destabilize the market and cause people’s premiums to rise. Um, when was the last time the health...
by MCDC | Nov 22, 2013 | Employment, Minimum Wage
Wal-Mart’s 1.3 million workers won a big victory Monday when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the retail giant had broken the law by firing and harassing employees who spoke out — and in some cases went on strike — to protest the company’s poverty pay...
by MCDC | Nov 21, 2013 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Ethics, Health Care
The Biggest Problem With Obamacare’s Rollout Is Being Caused Intentionally by Republicans by Joshua Holland The media have been buzzing with stories — many of them wildly exaggerated — of people facing higher premiums as a result of Obamacare. But there’s a story...
by MCDC | Nov 20, 2013 | Health Care, Virginia
via Blue Virginia The tragedy involving State Senator Creigh Deeds and his son Gus is horrible enough as it is. But then, we heard the infuriating news that Gus – who apparently had a history of struggling with mental illness – was “evaluated...
by MCDC | Nov 17, 2013 | Virginia, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
By Corey Hutchins CHARLESTON, SC — A week and a half after Election Day, the outcome of Virginia’s race for attorney general remains not quite settled—despite a tug-of-war in the headlines that have declared, at various times, Republican Mark Obenshain and Democrat...
by MCDC | Nov 16, 2013 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Issues
We won’t go back. Republicans are opening new fronts in the war on healthcare, and rewriting their battle plans for the 2014 elections with a focus on opposition to the president’s reforms. But we won’t go back to letting insurance companies deny coverage to people...
