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Joan McCarter's Profile
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A lifelong Blue girl in a Red state, I'm now Senior Political Writer for Daily Kos. On any given day, I'd rather be horseback, but there's more demand for political writers than cowgirls.
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Saturday Evening Geek Out, Social Security Defenders, Social Security, Comics, Daily Kos Labor, VirtuallySpeaking, Transcripts and Documents, Daily Kos Economics, Five Questions
Twitter: @joanmccarter
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) began the procedure Wednesday for fast-tracking Trumpcare to get it to the floor with a minimum of transparency and a maximum of pressure.
McConnell began the process under what is...
by Joan McCarter
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Trump meets 'victims of Obamacare' in Ohio, the day after he took insurance away from 13,000 of them Popular vote loser Donald Trump flew to Ohio on Wednesday to meet with "Obamacare victims." No, really—that's what the White House is calling people with health insurance. Here's the screenshot from their press advisory for the day.
Which is kind...
by Joan McCarter
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As of Wednesday morning, a search of The New York Times on "Eric Trump Foundation" shows the latest result being from January 6, 2017. That's when Eric Trump stepped down from the foundation that bore his name. The headline to that story: "Hospital...
by Joan McCarter
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The Nevada state legislature has been working in fits and starts toward an innovative healthcare reform effort, and finally reached the milestone of passing it. The idea seems obvious in its simplicity—the option for everyone to buy in to Medicaid....
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Depending on which Republican senator a reporter talks to, they are either ready to push through a Trumpcare bill that repeals Obamacare and ends insurance for millions, or they're not. After a conference-wide working lunch Tuesday,...
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It seemed like Eric Trump actually started out with the best of intentions when founding his Eric Trump Foundation to support research into children's cancer by raising lots of money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the leading pediatric...
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