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“Promoting Untrue Choice”: Paul Ryan’s Health Care Proposal Would Shrink The...
The federal budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, extols the benefits of “promoting true choice” for Medicare beneficiaries. In truth, though, the Ryan...
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“Beating The Odds”: Health Care, Guns And The Will To Win
For supporters of the urgent push for sensible gun laws, the fierce national battle over health care is a good example of how folks can beat the odds. One of the most extraordinary things about the...
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“Setting The Stage”: What The Health Law Will Bring In 2013
Most of the really big changes made by the 2010 health law don’t start for another year. That includes things like a ban on restricting pre-existing conditions, and required insurance coverage for most...
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“Warmed Over Pablum”: Marco Rubio’s Lies About Healthcare Reform
Marco Rubio’s rebuttal to the State of the Union address was remarkable for being unremarkable—it contained much of the same warmed-over pablum we heard from the stage in Tampa Bay at the Republican...
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“Victory For The Middle Class”: On Obamacare’s Third Birthday, There Are...
On March 23, 2010, Obamacare — formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — was signed into law by President Obama. Three years later, the bulk of the first serious attempt at...
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“Political Skullduggery”: Indiana Fudges Truth On Health Exchange Rates To...
Sometimes, the political urge simply overwhelms anything resembling common sense and appropriate behavior. Witness the latest example of political skullduggery playing out in the great State of Indiana...
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“Fostering Public Ignorance”: Health Care Reform Drives Republicans Stark...
If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, it’s tempting to observe that congressional Republicans have gone stark, raving mad. My own GOP...
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“Weight Loss, No Exercise”: Four Years Later, The Second Half Of The...
At his press conference late last week, President Obama chided congressional Republicans for voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act several dozen times without offering a credible alternative. “They...
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“Health Reform Turns Real”: Even The “Bad News” On Obamacare Start-Up Is...
At this point, the crisis in American governance has taken on a life of its own. Some Republicans are now saying openly that they want concessions in return for reopening the government and avoiding...
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“The Myth Of Obamacare’s Bad Sales Job”: The Complexity Makes It Easy For...
When they went forward with their plan to shut down the government in order to undo, defund, or otherwise undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA), conservatives convinced themselves that their plan was...
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“Intentionally Obscuring The Obvious”: Five Things Every American Needs To...
“Discover the obvious,” Jonathan Cohn said on Monday. Cohn is one of the nation’s foremost health care journalists and the keynote speaker of the journalism portion of “Hearsay or Fact: A Symposium on...
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“Revisionist History”: Chris Christie Shows Why The GOP Is Hopeless On Health...
With the rollout of the health care exchanges created by Obamacare hitting some bumps, to put it mildly, and President Obama’s approval rating falling to new lows, it seems like now would be the...
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“Obscuring The Bigger Picture”: The Republican Tempest Over The Affordable...
Having failed to defeat the Affordable Care Act in Congress, to beat it back in the last election, to repeal it despite more than eighty votes in the House, to stop it in the federal courts, to get...
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“Ending Medicare As We Know It”: Here’s Why There Won’t Be A Republican...
Republicans are sick of people saying they don’t have an alternative to Obamacare. They have plenty! And not just, “Don’t get sick! And if you do get sick, die quickly,” as Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)...
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“An Ideological Hurdle They Can’t Clear”: Why There’s No Republican Health...
Where’s the Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act? The question is generally best suited for milk cartons – it’s pretty clear GOP officials would love to “repeal” the federal health care...
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“No Way Out”: GOP Eyes “Obamacare Trap” Warily
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R) held an event in his Indiana district this week, at which health care was a major topic of conversation. According to a local press account, not everyone in this Republican...
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“What Obamacare Death Spiral?”: So Sorry Republicans, The Rumors Have Been...
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act have been terrified for months now that a combination of a botched online enrollment system, terrible press, and Republican sabotage could send the individual...
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“We Invent, Experiment, And Fix What Has To Be Fixed”: Why You Shouldn’t...
Whatever happened to American can-do optimism? Even before the Affordable Care Act covers its first beneficiary, the nattering nabobs of negativism are out in full force. “Tens of millions more...
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“Republican Alternative To Obamacare”: Pay More, Get Less, Put The Insurance...
Boy, can Democrats have fun with the new Republican alternative to Obamacare. It puts the health insurance companies back in charge and raises costs for almost all Americans. In particular, it...
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“When Conservatives Cry Wolf”: It’s More Like A Howl For Attention And A...
There were two important developments in the Republican Party last week. Let’s take stock. First, after years of saying that yes, they would develop and introduce an alternative to Obamacare, three GOP...
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