Steve Kane
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Post-career IT professional. Concerned about the world my children and grandchildren will inherit. Doing everything I can to limit further damage and begin to heal.
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Insurance companies have defrauded the government of hundreds of millions, while denying claims and lying to patients. Their schemes have helped triple the cost of subsidizing the ACA. From Maureen Tkacik: trib.al/uKmG5lP
The Obamacare Boiler Room - The American Prospect
Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Insurance companies have defrauded the government of hundreds of millions, while denying claims and lying to patients. Their schemes have helped triple the cost of subsidizing the ACA. From Maureen Tkacik: trib.al/uKmG5lP
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Democrats caved on the shutdown this week, but Harold Meyerson writes their surrender was inevitable. When confronted by Trump, “business-as-usual Democratic leadership, as personified by Chuck Schumer, is the wrong kind of leadership.”
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The Shutdown’s End as a Republican Victory? No Way. - The American Prospect
The shutdown enabled the Democrats to highlight the Republicans’ withdrawal of health coverage from millions of Americans, and Trump’s withholding food stamps—while he was praising himself for building a ballroom and rebuilding the Lincoln bathroom—only accelerated his descent in the polls.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Democrats caved on the shutdown this week, but Harold Meyerson writes their surrender was inevitable. When confronted by Trump, “business-as-usual Democratic leadership, as personified by Chuck Schumer, is the wrong kind of leadership.”
trib.al/6fsUhrO
trib.al/6fsUhrO
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The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Democrats’ Shutdown Challenge: How Long Must the Hurt Continue? prospect.org/2025/10/28/d...
The Democrats’ Shutdown Challenge: How Long Must the Hurt Continue? - The American Prospect
The problem the Democrats face in the current standoff is how to weigh these distinct forms of pain: immediate to a known universe of political allies; or long-term to a broader universe of, most impo...
prospect.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Democrats’ Shutdown Challenge: How Long Must the Hurt Continue? prospect.org/2025/10/28/d...