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The Real Healthcare Crisis: Retiring Seniors Need $500k To Cover Premiums Even With Obamacare

As Congress spends the next week and a half, if everything goes well, wrestling over how they can screw up healthcare in America even more, perhaps they should take notice of a new study from HealthView Services which highlights the fact that the real source of the healthcare crisis in this country is rising costs.
As Bloomberg notes, healthcare cost inflation is expected eclipse overall inflation and Social Security COLAs over the next decade.
Canary In The Coal Mine: Unfunded Liabilities Have Turned Illinois Into A "Banana Republic"

Authored by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com,
Illinois is the perfect example of what happens when your state is run by fiscally irresponsible dunces for decades.
California Expands Civil Servant Travel Ban To 8 States

As 'The Left' rages about President Trump's so-called "travel ban" from 'mostly-Muslim' nations for its dreadful discrimination, the liberal-ist of liberal states has decided that California civil servants should be banned from traveling to eight US states because "we will not spend taxpayer dollars in states that discriminate."
Caught On Tape: Democratic Party Official Says He's "Glad [Scalise] Got Shot, I Wish He Was F*cking Dead"
'Progressive' democrats in this country are seemingly becoming completely unhinged. A party that is run by the 'peaceful' hippies of the 60's who, at least at the time, considered themselves among the most vocal advocates of free speech, now openly supports the suppression of free speech on college campuses. A party that abhors violence saw one of it's voters last week carry out an attempted assassination of numerous Republican congressmen...not to mention the several violent protests that erupted after November's election that resulted in untold amounts of property destruction. A party