“Health Reform Lives!”: The Reality Is That Obamacare Is An Imperfect System,...
To the right’s dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage. Still, Obamacare’s opponents...
View Article“The Urgency Of Six Years Later”: Ryan Sees ‘Urgent’ Need For GOP Alternative...
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivered a fairly long speech at the Library of Congress yesterday, fleshing out his vision for making America “confident again” through a far-right approach to...
View Article“The Problem Is The Politics”: Sanders’ Single-Payer Plan Is A Distraction
If you’ve successfully landed on the beaches, but your forces are still taking heavy fire, what do you do? Do you concentrate on trying to hold the line and make further advances or do you sit in a...
View Article“Health Reform Realities”: A Simple, Straightforward Single-Payer System Just...
Health reform is the signature achievement of the Obama presidency. It was the biggest expansion of the social safety net since Medicare was established in the 1960s. It more or less achieves a goal —...
View Article“37 Pages Of Talking Points”: The Republican Healthcare Plan Isn’t Actually A...
Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) boasted on Twitter yesterday, “You’ve asked for it and tomorrow, House Republicans will release our plan to replace Obamacare.” Whether or not this actually constitutes a...
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