As the battle for the future of American health care rages in Washington, I find myself eager to understand what the Jewish tradition has to say on the subject. Does our ancient tradition offer any wisdom that might shed some light on this complicated subject? Do Jewish values point us in one direction or the…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described House Republicans’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare as a plan that would make health insurance worse and drag women back to medieval times. “Trumpcare will make health insurance in America measurably worse in just about every way and likely leave more Americans uninsured,” the New York senator said,…
Jason Chaffetz will not be winning an award for his bedside manner, after the Utah Republican said that low-income people would have to choose between electronics and medical attention under his party’s replacement for Obamacare. The GOP’s proposed replacement swap Obamacare’s mandate that individuals buy insurance with a penalty for letting insurance lapse. “Maybe rather…
After President Trump lamented that replacing Obamacare would be difficult because “nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated,” Senator Bernie Sanders that many people already understood the issue’s complexity. “Some of us who were sitting on the health education committee, who went to meeting after meeting after meeting, who heard from dozens of people,…
Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro invited a wave of rebuke by comparing needing health care to wanting a nice piece of furniture. Shapiro was responding to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who has called healthcare a right and denounced President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans’ plan to repeal Obamacare. You heard it here first folks—health is an accessory…
Bernie Sanders had a giant poster of a Trump tweet printed up and lugged to the Senate floor, where he used it to defend Obamacare Wednesday. “I think it is interesting that we listen to what Donald Trump said during the campaign,” the independent Vermont senator said in an incendiary speech. In May 2015 Trump…
I often wondered how Jewish youth from nurturing families in close knit communities become substance abusers. Do we not provide our children economic stability, values and educational opportunity? Are we not role models of accomplishment and positive social involvement? Our children have every reason to feel good about themselves. And yet, more and more young…
The new Republican administration is expected to tackle health care as one of its main domestic priorities after the new year. “The President-elect’s made it very clear. He wants the Congress when they convene in early January to take up the task of repealing and replacing ObamaCare first,” Vice-president elect Mike Pence told FoxNews on…
אין די בערלינער קאַפֿע־הײַזער האָט די אינטעליגענץ געשמועסט, געלײענט צײַטונגען און געשפּילן שאַך.
די שאַפֿער פֿון דער אָפּערע שטעלן זיך פֿאָר די ווירקונג פֿון שפּרינצעס טויט אויף אירע שוועסטער און צייטלס אייניקל.
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