End the Medicaid coverage gap
Sue Dinsdale leads Health Care For America NOW in Iowa. This month Medicare and Medicaid celebrate their 57th Anniversary. These two biggest government health insurance programs in the nation were...
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Iowa Democratic Party’s Disability Caucus endorses Dr. Glenn Hurst
Julie Russell-Steuart is a printmaker and activist who chairs the Iowa Democratic Party’s Disability Caucus. Glenn Hurst is a rural doctor in the small southwestern Iowa town of Minden and a founding...
View ArticleCapping costs no substitute for lowering drug prices
Sue Dinsdale is the director of Iowa Citizen Action Network and leads the Health Care For America and Lower Drug Prices NOW campaigns in Iowa. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley got it right when speaking...
View ArticleIowa CCI Action endorses Glenn Hurst for U.S. Senate
The Hurst for Iowa campaign just received an overwhelming endorsement from Iowa’s leading progressive organization, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund. In the announcement, they...
View ArticleUnderstanding single-payer health care: Medicare for All
Glenn Hurst is a family physician in southwest Iowa and a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. Several years ago, my wife and I had a friend our family called Grandma Ruth. Ruth was special to us....
View ArticleIA-Sen: Medicare for All drives Glenn Hurst’s campaign
A third Democrat joined the race for Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat on July 29. Dr. Glenn Hurst made clear that one issue in particular is driving his campaign. “I went back to school and became a doctor...
View ArticleMost Iowans in Congress supported latest COVID-19 package
The U.S. House and Senate on December 21 approved a $2.3 trillion package to fund the federal government through September 30, 2021 and provide approximately $900 billion in economic stimulus or relief...
View ArticleJoni Ernst turned her back on Iowans
Kay Pence is Vice President of the Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans. -promoted by Laura Belin U.S. Senator Joni Ernst is no longer working for Iowans. She is working at the behest of President...
View ArticleSteve King votes against coronavirus response bill (updated)
The U.S. House has fast-tracked a bill responding to the economic challenges created by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All 223 Democrats present–including Iowa’s Representatives Abby...
View ArticleHealth care according to our needs: Time to consider it a human right
Iowa State University economist Dave Swenson: Of three possible approaches to health policy, only Medicare for All “reduces the damage that the existing system causes and remedies the cumulative policy...
View ArticleAmy Klobuchar: A leader for everyone
State Representative Molly Donahue: “Amy Klobuchar is running to be the president of all the people, not half the people.” -promoted by Laura Belin Amy Klobuchar isn’t just a smart, funny, gritty,...
View ArticleLoretta Sieman on the public option and why she’s in that ad
Industry-funded groups have recently spent more than a million dollars on television and online advertising in Iowa opposing Democratic plans to expand access to health insurance. Some ads primarily...
View ArticleTwelve quick takes on the third Democratic debate
First disclaimer: I don’t agree with the Democratic National Committee’s debate criteria and encourage Iowans to keep listening to all the presidential candidates. Second disclaimer: I doubt anything...
View ArticleWhere things stand in Iowa’s Senate, Congressional races
Labor Day traditionally marks the beginning of the most intense phase of campaigning in election years. This holiday is also a good time to review the state of play in races for federal offices in...
View ArticleAmy Klobuchar’s practical health care plan for seniors
Bill Witt represented part of Black Hawk County in the Iowa House for ten years and is a well-known advocate for improving health care services and environmental causes. -promoted by Laura Belin While...
View ArticleWhat candidates said about health care, reproductive rights at the Hall of Fame
Nineteen presidential candidates had five minutes each to make their case to more than 1,000 activists at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Hall of Fame event in Cedar Rapids on June 9. Most offered at least...
View ArticleWhy I’m running to be the best senator money can’t buy
Kimberly Graham is the first declared Democratic challenger to U.S. Senator Joni Ernst. Her campaign website is kimberlyforiowa.com, and she’s on Facebook and Twitter @KimberlyforIowa. -promoted by...
View ArticleFive things to know about Trump’s sabotage budget
Matt Sinovic is the executive director of Progress Iowa. -promoted by Laura Belin This week, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2020, which revives a call to repeal...
View ArticleAll three Iowa Democrats supported Nancy Pelosi for speaker
Nancy Pelosi won an important U.S. House Democratic caucus vote on November 28, and all three Iowans who will be part of the majority next year backed her for speaker. House Democrats voted by secret...
View ArticleGrassley to chair Senate Finance Committee
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley told reporters today that he will lead the Senate Finance Committee in the new Congress. The current chair, Senator Orrin Hatch, is retiring. Grassley’s official website...
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