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Showing posts with label Mitch McConnell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitch McConnell. Show all posts

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Obamacare Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments: Their Money or Your Life


Miracle Girl: Obamacare Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments: Their Money or Your Life

With Trump continuing to hold Obamacare cost-sharing reduction payments hostage, will the ransom be paid by bipartisan congressional negotiations?
The foxes now own the henhouse. If Obamacare implodes it will be at the hands of President Trump.

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Skinny Repeal and GOP Moderates: Compromising or Compromised?


Miracle Girl: Skinny Repeal and GOP Moderates: Compromising or Compromised?
Many GOP moderates have osteoporosis of the spine. Will they cave to Mitch McConnell...yet again?
If Skinny Repeal passes, it will be the healthcare of the American people skinned.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Mitch McConnell’s Deadly Game of Obamacare Repeal Darts


Miracle Girl: Mitch McConnell’s Deadly Game of Obamacare Repeal Darts
Mitch McConnell hopes one of his legislative darts will hit the Obamacare repeal mark, but it's the healthcare of millions in his bulls-eye.
The Senate Majority doesn't care about the pain his blind darts "game" will cause.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Pottery Barn Rule: You Break the Healthcare System, You Bought It


Miracle Girl: Pottery Barn Rule: You Break the Healthcare System, You Bought It
Forgetting the Pottery Barn Rule, the president has vowed to smash Obamacare. While Trump will buy the blame, the American people who will pay the price.
Sorry, Donald, the phrase doesn't go, "The buck stops with Dem."

Friday, July 14, 2017

Better Care Recovery Act II: Dean Heller Highwater


Miracle Girl: Better Care Recovery Act II: Dean Heller Highwater

If the BCRA fails, the healthcare coverage of millions will have been saved by senators covering something else, especially the GOP's most endangered senator, Dean Heller.
Will Obamacare be saved by a senator out to save his electoral skin?

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

CBO Report: 22 Million Lost in Trumpcare’s Tangled Thicket


Miracle Girl: CBO Report: 22 Million Lost in Trumpcare’s Tangled Thicket
What a tangled web the GOP weaves when they practice to deceive...about the harms of Trumpcare. You may be wondering what can we do to prevent 22 million from losing their healthcare (according to the CBO report).
Plenty.

Friday, June 23, 2017

BCRA: Senate Trumpcare Bill Starves Medicaid to Feed the Rich


Miracle Girl: BCRA: Senate Trumpcare Bill Starves Medicaid to Feed the Rich
The BCRA puts Medicaid on a starvation diet. To pay for a massive tax cut for the rich, the Senate version of Trumpcare throws Medicaid recipients under the bus...even the disabled.
Like me.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Mitch McConnell’s Trumpcare Legislative Hyperspace Bypass


Miracle Girl: Mitch McConnell’s Trumpcare Legislative Hyperspace Bypass
Thanks to Mitch McConnell, Trumpcare will have no committees, testimony, or deliberation in the Senate. Now that's a bypass demolition worthy of Vogons.
But even the Vogons were more respectful of legal niceties.

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Ryancare: The Dog That Caught the Car…and Was Run Over by It


Miracle Girl: Ryancare: The Dog That Caught the Car…and Was Run Over by It

I’m not shedding any tears over Ryancare's impending demise. Nor are the 24 million Americans who will lose their healthcare if the AHCA is passed. In their reckless rush to pass Ryancare/Trumpcare, the GOP is sealing the AHCA's doom.

Friday, February 17, 2017

The Longview: Why I Hope Trump Isn’t Impeached


Miracle Girl: The Longview: Why I Hope Trump Isn’t Impeached

Liberals will have to take the longview of Donald Trump's disastrous presidency and hope he serves out his entire (and only) term. Even if it means stomaching four years of national embarrassment.

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Coma Girl

Not a miracle recovery, but a miracle of modern medicine

In 2013 I fell into a six-week coma and nearly died after I contracted legionella. The Legionnaire's disease was in turn triggered by immunosuppression caused by the prednisone I was taking for my rare autoimmune disease, dermatomyositis.

I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article "Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience," which appeared in their July/August issue.

But it wasn't a miracle--despite what so many continue to believe--that I recovered so fully. I owe my life not to God, but the miracles of modern medicine, as well as the nature of the watershed-area brain damage I suffered, as I detailed in my article and in this blog.