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Have you called your Senator today? Tell them NO on Trumpcare!

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by Gregg Chadwick On June 27th , I posted a criticism of the GOP led Senate's horrific proposed healthcare legislation. Their bill is back with a few revisions and it is just as awful as before. The New York Times reports that, "The revised bill is broadly similar to the earlier measure that Senate leaders hoped to vote on before the Fourth of July recess, though the new version includes some additional provisions meant to entice reluctant Republican senators with varying policy concerns.  Like the previous bill , it would end the requirement that most Americans have health coverage, and it would make deep cuts to Medicaid , capping payments to states and rolling back its expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Though some Republican senators expressed concern about how the previous bill would affect Medicaid, Senate leaders stuck with the same approach in the new version." Also, the proposed new bill would allow insurers to offer substandard insurance packages tha...

Primum Non Nocere - First Do No Harm

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by Gregg Chadwick As the husband of a cancer survivor I ask those who support Trumpcare- "How can you help pass legislation that you know will kill people? Where is your compassion? Where is your humanity?" Yesterday, the American Medical Association released a letter  expressing fierce opposition to the GOP Senate's current proposed healthcare legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act passed during President Obama's first term. The AMA writes,"Medicine has long operated under the precept of Primum non nocere , or “first, do no harm.” The draft legislation violates that standard on many levels." Written in a series of secret closed meetings, the GOP cabal's Better Care Reconciliation Act , or more accurately Trumpcare , is worse than imagined. According to the latest Congressional Budget Office estimations the bill will strip millions of Americans of their health insurance  - increasing the number of people without health insurance by...

You Are Invited- Jan 28, 2017 1-3pm - Panel Discussion Moderated by Gregg Chadwick - Art In the Time of Trump

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Gregg Chadwick The Future Is Woke 40”x30” oil on linen  2017 With millions of others, I marched this weekend in the #WomensMarch. Our crowd in Los Angeles numbered around 750,000.  The Future Is Woke  is the first in a series of paintings exploring this time of change. Artists often use their creations as a sort of reflecting device that mirrors and focuses the viewers attention on social and political change.  As Marvin Gaye sang so poignantly- “What’s going on.” As we carry the spirit of the Women's March forward: On Saturday, January 28th 2017, from 1-3pm at the Santa Monica Art Studios, a vibrant panel discussion on Art in the Time of Trump will be held.  Santa Monica Art Studios, 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica CA 90405 Confirmed Panelists: Yareli Arizmendi - Actress/Screenwriter  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0034976/ Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn - Senior Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books...

Ashley Judd: "I am a nasty woman"

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I WANT THIS ENTIRE SPEECH ON A SHIRT https://t.co/jt85sAGs14 — tina (@biebersarcher) January 21, 2017