by LeeAnn Hall | Mar 23, 2017 | Health
The House of Representatives is slated to vote Thursday on a health care repeal bill that will gut the Affordable Care Act and end Medicaid as we know it. In legislative and human terms, passage of the bill would set us back not to 2009 but to 1964. But even if the...
by LeeAnn Hall | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog
The following was originally published in OtherWords.org For most people, prescription drugs are a lifeline. For Representative Tom Price, Donald Trump’s health secretary nominee, they’re a source of profits. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug and health...
by LeeAnn Hall | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog
This week I had the honor of joining my friend Pramila Jayapal as she made history. Along with her family and other close friends, I accompanied Pramila as she was sworn in as the U.S. Representative for Washington's 7th congressional district. She is the first...
by LeeAnn Hall | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
The right-wing assault on the advances our country has made in the more than 70 years since the presidency of FDR isn’t waiting for Donald Trump’s inauguration. The battle to take away our health care, retirement benefits, and even food aid has already begun, with the...
by LeeAnn Hall | Nov 17, 2016 | Conservatism, Democracy, Progressive Vision, The Trump Swamp
We’re already starting to see how America’s gamble on Donald Trump will pay off: with gifts to the corporations and billionaires he swore he’d put us above. One of Trump’s first priorities is to repeal one of the only federal laws standing between us and Wall Street....
