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“Inside The Anti-Obamacare Resistance”: A Facinating Glimpse Into Warped...
The two largest states that have so far failed to join in the Medicaid expansion provided for in the Affordable Care Act are Florida and Texas, where Republicans control the legislature and the...
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“Insurance And Freedom”: How Many Americans Will Be Denied Essential Health...
President Obama will soon release a new budget, and the commentary is already flowing fast and furious. Progressives are angry (with good reason) over proposed cuts to Social Security; conservatives...
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“Republicans Are Out Of Excuses”: President Obama’s Budget And The...
As promised, President Obama sent Congress his budget for the 2014 fiscal year this morning, and there’s just enough in it to make everyone unhappy from a variety of directions. Republicans won’t like...
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“Bullet Backdrops”: Arkansas Republican “Most Likely Won’t Try To Kill”...
Arkansas may become the first red state to accept the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which the Supreme Court made optional in its decision last year, if the Department of Health and Human Services...
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“A Very Sweet Deal”: Prescription Drug Price-Gouging Enabled By Congress
Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much. But one thing they would agree on if they knew the facts is that because of the cozy relationship big drug companies have with our lawmakers in...
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“Obamacare Is For Republicans, Too”: If GOP Governors Think Stonewalling...
Three months from now, Americans will get their first look at whether Obamacare works. The answer will depend a lot on Republican governors and legislatures — and they should want the law’s exchanges...
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“Practicing Without A License”: Iowa Governor Must Personally Decide Whether...
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) has approved a measure to expand his state’s Medicaid program under Obamacare, which will extend health coverage to tens of thousands of his poor residents. But there’s a...
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“Petulant Little Children”: Why The Republican Obamacare “No Strategy At All”...
After President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, conservative writer David Frum, who had been a speechwriter for George W. Bush, chided his compatriots for the strategy they had employed in...
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“An Important Milestone”: In Michigan, A Defeat For The Tea Party And Victory...
Obamacare took a big step forward on Tuesday night, when the Michigan Senate approved an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. The state House is likely to back the same measure, as early as next...
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“Love For Labor Is Lost”: Politicians Today Can’t Even Bring Themselves To...
It wasn’t always about the hot dogs. Originally, believe it or not, Labor Day actually had something to do with showing respect for labor. Here’s how it happened: In 1894 Pullman workers, facing wage...
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“The Rejection Of Reality”: Conservative Claims About Low-Income Excess Are...
Are people better off than they were before the recession? By most headline figures they’re not: Poverty and inequality have risen to record levels, median incomes declined. Unemployment has improved...
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“Happiness Today, Bankruptcy Tomorrow”: Why Letting Everyone Keep Their...
The current furor over President Obama’s broken “keep your plan” promise confusingly melds together two very different claims. The first is a simple question of accuracy and honesty: Obama made a...
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“More Than Just A Message”: The Origins Of “If You Like Your Health...
There are good reasons why President Obama’s leading message on health care during the 2008 campaign, often repeated since, was “if you like your health insurance, you can keep it.” That message was...
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“A Range Of Options And A Very Good Deal”: Under The Affordable Care Act,...
Millions of people could qualify for federal subsidies that will pay the entire monthly cost of some health care plans being offered in the online marketplaces set up under President Obama’s health...
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“What A Terrible Thing To Do To People”: Republican Attacks On Obamacare Are...
If health insurance isn’t important, why would receiving a letter telling you that you need to change your plan be a tragedy that can get you on Fox News nearly immediately? Republicans have seized on...
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“Things Are Neither Perfect Nor Disastrous”: Obamacare Panic To Enter Even...
No, Democrats are not abandoning it en masse, and no, it isn’t going to be repealed. I want to follow up on what I wrote Friday about those who are deciding that because of a) web site problems and b)...
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“When Ideology Collides With Reality”: Irrational Republican Exuberance Over...
In these days of hyper-polarization, some readers may wonder why I always treat with great respect the findings and analysis of conservative number-cruncher Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics. I don’t...
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“Obamacare’s Secret Success”: Health Reform Is Starting To Look Like A Bigger...
The law establishing Obamacare was officially titled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. And the “affordable” bit wasn’t just about subsidizing premiums. It was also supposed to be about...
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“The First Step Of A Long Journey”: Now’s Not The Time For Liberals To Say “I...
It has been a rough two months for the Affordable Care Act and its defenders. Having spent years fighting ridiculous allegations about socialized medicine and “death panels,” supporters of...
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“A Sobering Reminder”: The Number Of Uninsured Americans Increased By 7.9...
The week President Obama took office, initial jobless claims, the statistic that immediately gauges layoffs, hit a 26-year high with 637,000 applying for unemployment insurance in one week. It was...
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