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Overnight Health Care: Trump says he hopes Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare | FDA approves remdesivir as COVID-19 treatment | Dems threaten to subpoena HHS over allegations of political interference at CDC

We'll be watching for plenty of back-and-forth on the coronavirus response at tonight's presidential debate, but first, President Trump gave Democrats some fodder for attacks with his comments on ObamaCare to "60 Minutes," and a new study points to thousands of avoidable COVID-19 deaths in the United States.

We'll start with the ObamaCare comments:

Trump says he hopes Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare

President Trump says in a new interview with "60 Minutes" that he would like to see the Supreme Court "end" the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and that he would announce his own health care plan after the case is ruled on.

"It is developed. It is fully developed. It is going to be announced very soon when we see what happens with ObamaCare, which is not good," Trump said when questioned by CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl on why he hasn't released the health care plan that he has long promised.

Trump would not elaborate on how the plan would protect those with preexisting conditions. He claimed that "pieces" of his plan had been released before, saying later that it "will" be developed and suggesting that despite his assurances it has not been fully formed.

I hope that they end it. It will be so good if they end it because we will come up with a plan," Trump said.
The lawsuit: Trump's own Justice Department signed on to the lawsuit seeking to strike the ACA, which was brought by a group of GOP state attorneys general, so it's not exactly a surprise that he wants the law gone. But the landmark health care reform law has proved popular with voters.

Contrast with Senate GOP: In Congress, on the other hand, Republicans are downplaying the chances of the ObamaCare lawsuit, which has become a political headache. "No one believes the Supreme Court is going to strike down the Affordable Care Act," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said last week during a debate with his Democratic challenger.

FDA grants full approval to remdesivir as COVID-19 treatment

The Food and ******* Administration (FDA) has granted full approval to the antiviral ******* remdesivir to treat COVID-19, manufacturer Gilead announced Thursday.

FDA initially granted emergency use authorization for remdesivir in May, which allowed doctors and hospitals to use the ******* to treat hospitalized patients without a full approval.

Remdesivir, which is administered in a hospital setting through an IV, showed modest results in reducing the hospitalizations of patients with severe cases of COVID-19.

It is now the only FDA-approved treatment for COVID-19.

The approval is based on three randomized controlled trials, including one sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.

In an open letter to the public, Gilead's chief medical officer Merdad Parsey acknowledged the results from a global World Health Organization trial, which found remsdesivir had no substantial impact on the survival of COVID-19 patients or the length of their hospital stays. But he took issue with the trial design and its implementation, and said the ones conducted in the U.S. result in high quality scientific evidence.

House Democrats threaten to subpoena HHS over allegations of political interference at CDC

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), chairman of the Oversight and Reform Select subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, threatened Thursday to issue subpoenas in the panel's investigation of alleged political interference by the Trump administration in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports on the COVID-19 pandemic.

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blkdlaur said:
America needs to WAKE up to the fact that the media is no longer believable and WAY beyond biased - NOT carrying or reporting on the Tony Bobulinski story is unconscionable - the media is now openly protecting Joe Biden from the scrutiny of the American population - time to WAKE up to that !!!!!!!
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About 50 million people have voted.
After 47 years, we know Joe.
After 4 years of Trump's presidency, we know what we don't want.

The irony is, after all of his rallies, we'll have to lock up the traitorous SOB (Trump) because he can't be trusted to leave this country and keep his mouth shut about the highest level national security data that his Russian and Chinese buddies would give up a third of their economy for. Or forgive a $400 million debt.
 
Well that’s 50 million uninformed people that voted.

After 47 years - obviously you don’t know Joe - or don’t care to KNOW Joe.

Yeah - better to turn the country over to a sell out :|

The media is in the Dems pocket - hopefully not in China’s - but the news seems to be only what the Dems want reported now.
 
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blkdlaur said:
Well that’s 50 million uninformed people that voted.
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And that's another reason you're losing. Either people vote your way, or they are uninformed.
Do yourself a favor, look at how many people voted in the last Presidential Election total, the one where Trump lost the popular vote. And ask yourself, 11 days to go, over a third of the voters have already made up their minds, Democrats are leading 2 to 1 in turnout.
Where are you going to make up that deficit? Why are people so convinced already about the Trump presidency?
blkdlaur said:
After 47 years - obviously you don’t know Joe - or don’t care to KNOW Joe.
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Joe has never been investigated or in a scandal and never a hint of corruption. McCain/Palin campaign manager spent hundreds of thousands on research of Biden's background- all those years in DC, there must be something. Nope. Said he was clean as a whistle. He said this yesterday. YOU don't know Biden. I'm sure during those Obama years you were complaining about how Joe is so racist and corrupt. Weren't you? No?
blkdlaur said:
Yeah - better to turn the country over to a sell out :|
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You mean a guy who has not only has personal, but family business interest in adversarial countries but also unknown foreign accounts and pay taxes to a foreign adversary? Oh, and owes almost half a billion dollars to yet another enemy of America.
blkdlaur said:
The media is in the Dems pocket - hopefully not in China’s - but the news seems to be only what the Dems wasn’t reported now.
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Doesn't matter about the media. We have seen who Donald Trump is and what kind of country we have under him. No thanks.
 
The media is supposed to report the news - they don’t anymore unless it supports your side.

A former Naval officer and former partner of Hunter Biden’s, who is a Dem by the way, has come forward - with evidence - and is willing to testify - that the Biden’s have sold us out to China. A true American Patriot.

In what fantasy world is this NOT news ???
 
blkdlaur said:
The media is supposed to report the news - they don’t anymore unless it supports your side.

A former Naval officer and former partner of Hunter Biden’s, who is a Dem by the way, has come forward - with evidence - and is willing to testify - that the Biden’s have sold us out to China. A true American Patriot.

In what fantasy world is this NOT news ???
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Ours. Its hearsay with no evidence. I'm not sure what his naval background has to do with his credibility on who should be president.
 
blkdlaur said:
Yes - you Dems do live in a fantasy world of your own creation.
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Sure. Like you pointing to a guy, who wanted to get in on Hunter Biden's deal, and was rejected, so suddenly he has damning information on Joe Biden? Sour grapes?

You want to point to military credentials and say this guy is a patriot. Well, what about these patriots?
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22 Retired 4-Stars Join Nearly 500 NatSec Leaders in Letter Endorsing Joe Biden

The open letter, published Thursday morning by National Security Leaders for Biden, contains 489 names.
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List of Former Senior Military Leaders Backing Biden Now Outnumbers Trump's

A group released a second list of endorsements for the former vice president.
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And don't forget about this one individual:
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Special Ops commander who oversaw bin Laden raid endorses Biden

The Special Operations Commander who led the mission to assassinate Osama Bin Laden says he is a conservative but voted for Joe Biden.
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I guess they live in a fantasy world too? One that protects your right to be this stupid. Or, are they not 'patriots'?
 

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How many people are unemployed in US?​

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Reference: www.deptofnumbers.com/unemployment/us/

An Unprecedented 14 Million Children Are Going Hungry Due ...​

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Study Sheds Light on Broadening U.S. Hunger Problem​

About one in seven Americans—more than 46 million people—rely on such programs to get by, according to the study, which involved confidential surveys of more than 60,000 recipients of food aid from groups affiliated with Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks that distribute donated food to programs in all 50 states.

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Americans without health insurance U.S. 2010-2019 | Statista​

In the first half of 2019, approximately 30.9 million people in the United States had no health insurance.

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137 million Americans are struggling with medical debt.​

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America's poor becoming more destitute under Trump: U.N. expert




By Stephanie Nebehay,Reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - Poverty in the United States is extensive and deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor people, while rewarding the rich, a U.N. human rights investigator has found.
Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty, called on U.S. authorities to provide solid social protection and address underlying problems, rather than "punishing and imprisoning the poor".

While welfare benefits and access to health insurance are being slashed, President Donald Trump's tax reform has awarded "financial windfalls" to the mega-rich and large companies, further increasing inequality, he said in a report.
U.S. policies since President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty in the 1960s have been "neglectful at best," he said.
"But the policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship," Alston said.

Almost 41 million people or 12.7 percent live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and children account for one in three poor, he said. The United States has the highest youth poverty rate among industrialized countries, he added.

Its citizens live shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other rich democracies, eradicable tropical diseases are increasingly prevalent and it has the world's highest incarceration rate ... and the highest obesity levels in the developed world," Alston said.
However, the data from the U.S. Census Bureau he cited covers only the period through 2016, and he gave no comparative figures on the extent of poverty before and after Trump came into office in January 2017.

The Australian, a veteran U.N. rights expert and New York University law professor, will present his report to the United Nations Human Rights Council later this month.

It is based on his mission in December to several U.S. states, including rural Alabama, a slum in downtown Los Angeles, California, and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

A U.S. official in Geneva, asked for comment, told Reuters: "The Trump Administration has made it a priority to provide economic opportunity for all Americans."
"SHAMEFUL STATISTICS"

Citing "shameful statistics" linked to entrenched racial discrimination, Alston said that African Americans are 2.5 times more likely than whites to live in poverty and their unemployment rate is more than double. Women, Hispanics, immigrants, and indigenous people also suffer high rates.
At least 550,000 people are homeless in America, he said.

"The tax reform will worsen this situation and ensure that the United States remains the most unequal society in the developed world," Alston said. "The planned dramatic cuts in welfare will essentially shred crucial dimensions of a safety net that is already full of holes."

The tax overhaul, which sailed through the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress in December, permanently cut the top corporate rate to 21 percent from 35 percent. Tax cuts for individuals, however, are temporary and expire after 2025.
Trump has said they will lead to more take-home pay for workers and has touted bonuses some workers received from their employers as evidence the law is working.

Alston dismissed allegations of widespread fraud in the welfare system and criticized the U.S. criminal justice system. It sets large bail bonds for a defendant seeking to go free pending trial, meaning wealthy suspects can afford bail while the poor remain in custody, often losing their jobs, he said.

"There is no magic recipe for eliminating extreme poverty and each level of government must make its own good-faith decisions. At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power," he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/americas-poor-becoming-more-destitute-under-trump-u-110313048.html
 
7 facts that show the American Dream is dead


A recent poll showed that more than half of all people in this country don’t believe that the American dream is real. Fifty-nine percent of those polled in June agreed that “the American dream has become impossible for most people to achieve.” More and more Americans believe there is “not much opportunity” to get ahead.

The public has reached this conclusion for a very simple reason: It’s true. The key elements of the American dream—a living wage, retirement security, the opportunity for one’s children to get ahead in life—are now unreachable for all but the wealthiest among us. And it’s getting worse. As inequality increases, the fundamental elements of the American dream are becoming increasingly unaffordable for the majority.


1. Most people can’t get ahead financially.


If the American dream means a reasonable rate of income growth for working people, most people can’t expect to achieve it.

As Ben Casselman observes at fivethirtyeight.com, the middle class hasn’t seen its wage rise in 15 years. In fact, the percentage of middle-class households in this nation is actually falling. Median household income has fallen since the financial crisis of 2008, while income for the wealthiest of Americans has actually risen.

Thomas Edsall wrote in the New York Times that “Not only has the wealth of the very rich doubled since 2000, but corporate revenues are at record levels.” Edsall also observed that, “In 2013, according to Goldman Sachs, corporate profits rose five times faster than wages.”

2. The stay-at-home parent is a thing of the past.

There was a time when middle-class families could lead a comfortable lifestyle on one person’s earnings. One parent could work while the other stayed home with the *******.

Those days are gone. As Elizabeth Warren and co-author Amelia Warren Tyagi documented in their 2003 book, The Two-Income Trap, the increasing number of two-earner families was matched by rising costs in a number of areas such as education, home costs and transportation.

These cost increases, combined with wage stagnation, mean that families are struggling to make ends meet—and that neither parent has the luxury of staying home any longer. In fact, parenthood has become a financial risk. Warren and Tyagi write that “Having a baby is now the single best predictor that a woman will end up in financial collapse.” This book was written over a decade ago; things are even worse today.

3. The rich are more debt-free. Others have no choice.

Most Americans are falling behind anyway, as their salary fails to keep up with their expenses. No wonder debt is on the rise. As Joshua Freedman and Sherle R. Schwenninger observe in a paper for the New America Foundation, “American households… have become dependent on debt to maintain their standard of living in the face of stagnant wages.”

This “debt-dependent economy,” as Freedman and Schwenninger call it, has negative implications for the nation as a whole. But individual families are suffering too.

Rani Molla of the Wall Street Journal notes that “Over the past 20 years the average increase in spending on some items has exceeded the growth of incomes. The gap is especially poignant for those under 25 years old.”

There are increasingly two classes of Americans: Those who are taking on additional debt, and the rich.

4. Student debt is crushing a generation of non-wealthy Americans.

Education for every American who wants to get ahead? Forget about it. Nowadays you have to be rich to get a college education; that is, unless you want to begin your career with a mountain of debt. Once you get out of college, you’ll quickly discover that the gap between spending and income is greatest for people under 25 years of age.

Education, as Forbes columnist Steve Odland put it in 2012, is “the great equalizer… the facilitator of the American dream.” But at that point college costs had risen 500 percent since 1985, while the overall consumer price index rose by 115 percent. As of 2013, tuition at a private university was projected to cost nearly $130,000 on average over four years, and that’s not counting food, lodging, books, or other expenses.

Public colleges and universities have long been viewed as the get-ahead option for all Americans, including the poorest among us. Not anymore. The University of California was once considered a national model for free, high-quality public education, but today tuition at UC Berkeley is $12,972 per year. (It was tuition-free until Ronald Reagan became governor.) Room and board is $14,414. The total cost of on-campus attendance at Berkeley, including books and other items, is estimated to be $32,168.

The California story has been repeated across the country, as state cutbacks in the wake of the financial crisis caused the cost of public higher education to soar by 15 percent in a two-year period. With a median national household income of $51,000, even public colleges are quickly becoming unaffordable

Sure, there are still some scholarships and grants available. But even as college costs rise, the availability of those programs is falling, leaving middle-class and lower-income students further in debt as out-of-pocket costs rise.

5. Vacations aren’t for the likes of you anymore.

Think you’d like to have a nice vacation? Think again. According to a 2012 American Express survey, Americans who were planning vacations expected to spend an average of $1,180 per person. That’s $4,720 for a family of four. But then, why worry about paying for that vacation? If you’re unemployed, you can’t afford it. And even if you have a job, there’s a good chance you won’t get the time off anyway.

As the Center for Economic and Policy Research found in 2013, the United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not require employers to offer paid vacations to their workers. The number of paid holidays and vacation days received by the average worker in this country (16) would not meet the statutory minimum requirements in 19 other developed countries, according to the CEPR. Thirty-one percent of workers in smaller businesses had no paid vacation days at all.

The CEPR also found that 14 percent of employees at larger corporations also received no paid vacation days. Overall, roughly one in four working Americans gets no vacation time at all.

Rep. Alan Grayson, who has introduced the Paid Vacation Act, correctly notes that the average working American now spends 176 hours more per year on the job than was the case in 1976.

Between the pressure to work more hours and the cost of vacation, even people who do get vacation time—at least on paper—are hard-pressed to take any time off. That’s why 175 million vacation days go unclaimed each year.

6. Even with health insurance, medical care is increasingly unaffordable for most people.

Medical care when you need it? That’s for the wealthy.

The Affordable Care Act was designed to increase the number of Americans who are covered by health insurance. But health coverage in this country is the worst of any highly developed nation—and that’s for people who have health insurance.

Every year the Milliman actuarial firm analyzes the average costs of medical care, including the household’s share of insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs, for a family of four with the kind of insurance that is considered higher quality coverage in this country: a PPO plan which allows them to use a wider range of healthcare providers.

Even as overall wealth in this country has shifted upward, away from middle-class families, the cost of medical care is increasingly being borne by the families themselves. As the Milliman study shows, the employer-funded portion of healthcare costs has risen 52 percent since 2007, the first year of the recession. But household costs have risen by a staggering 73 percent, or 8 percent per year, and now average $9,144. In the same time period, Census Bureau figures show that median household income has fallen 8 percent.

That means that household healthcare costs are skyrocketing even as income falls dramatically.

The recent claims of “lowered healthcare costs” are misleading. While the rate of increase is slowing down, healthcare costs are continuing to increase. And the actual cost to working Americans is increasing even faster, as corporations continue to maximize their record profits by shifting healthcare costs onto consumers. This shift is expected to accelerate as the result of a misguided provision in the Affordable Care Act which will tax higher-cost plans.

According to an OECD survey, the number of Americans who report going without needed healthcare in the past year because of cost was higher than in 10 comparable countries. This was true for both lower-income and higher-income Americans, suggesting that insured Americans are also feeling the pinch when it comes to getting medical treatment.

As inequality worsens, wages continue to stagnate, and more healthcare costs are placed on the backs of working families, more and more Americans will find medical care unaffordable.

7. Americans can no longer look forward to a secure retirement.

Want to retire when you get older, as earlier generations did, and enjoy a secure life after a lifetime of hard work? You’ll get to… if you’re rich.

There was a time when most middle-class Americans could work until they were 65 and then look forward to a financially secure retirement. Corporate pensions guaranteed a minimum income for the remainder of their life. Those pensions, coupled with Social Security income and a lifetime’s savings, assured that these ordinary Americans could spend their senior years in modest comfort.

No longer. As we have already seen, rising expenses means most Americans are buried in debt rather than able to accumulate modest savings. That’s the main reason why 20 percent of Americans who are nearing retirement age haven’t saved for their post-working years.

Meanwhile, corporations are gutting these pension plans in favor of far less general programs. The financial crisis of 2008, driven by the greed of Wall Street one percenters, robbed most American household of their primary assets. And right-wing “centrists” of both parties, not satisfied with the rising retirement age which has already cut the program’s benefits, continue to press for even deeper cuts to the program.

One group, Natixis Global Asset Management, ranks the United States 19th among developed countries when it comes to retirement security. The principal reasons the US ranks so poorly are 1) the weakness of our pension programs; and 2) the stinginess of our healthcare system, which even with Medicare for the elderly, is far weaker than that of nations such as Austria.

Economists used to speak of retirement security as a three-legged stool. Pensions were one leg of the stool, savings were another and Social Security was the third. Today two legs of the stool have been shattered, and anti-Social Security advocates are sawing away at the third.

Conclusion


Vacations; an education; staying home to raise your *******; a life without crushing debt; seeing the doctor when you don’t feel well; a chance to retire: one by one, these mainstays of middle-class life are disappearing for most Americans. Until we demand political leadership that will do something about it, they’re not coming back.

Can the American dream be restored? Yes, but it will take concerted effort to address two underlying problems. First, we must end the domination of our electoral process by wealthy and powerful elites.

At the same time, we must begin to address the problem of growing economic inequality. Without a national movement to call for change, change simply isn’t going to happen.
 
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