Under the program, insurers and doctors can negotiate to move patients to a private insurance stream. Patients don’t get a say.
Trump Created A Program To Privatize Medicare Without Patients’ Consent. Biden Is Keeping It Going.
Previously:
Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
Biden moves forward with Trump Medicare privatization plan
Buzzfeed is a little behind (I first blogged about it, in November 2021), but here’s a reminder.
The West colonized and enslaved Africa for centuries at the point of a gun, and then sought to continue its colonization through financial weapons. The wealth and power of Europe was created through extraction and colonization. China has no history, need, or desire for colonization. It developed independently and has had amicable and equal relations with Africa for millennia. The CPC has supported African liberation movements, unlike the west, which violently suppressed them.
Justin Podur on Trevor Noah on China in Africa. Why Comparing Chinese Africa Investment to Western Colonialism Is No Joke.
Once upon a time, there was a government so paranoid about its hold on power that it treated everyone and everything as a threat and a reason to expand its powers. Unfortunately, the citizens of this nation believed everything they were told by their government, and they suffered for it.
Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok: Pandemics, Lockdowns & Martial Law
Related:
Report: Military may have to quell domestic violence from economic collapse
Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States.
America’s New Class War
Incarcerated people are banned from reading books with themes of Black liberation or leftist content. Now the profit motive is the rationale for preventing individuals or charitable organizations from donating books. For profit companies make money on people forced to work for little or nothing. The prison industrial complex is alive and well.
The American Prison System’s War on Reading
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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