Category Archives: Health Care

The Tortured Politics of the Health Care Law

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Boehner and Reid

Putting aside per­son­al ani­mos­i­ty for the greater good.

House con­ser­v­a­tives yes­ter­day scut­tled a bill that would have denied the White House mon­ey it urgent­ly needs to imple­ment the new health reform law. But a promi­nent Sen­ate Demo­c­rat, who helped write the law, maneu­vered to deny the Admin­is­tra­tion those des­per­ate­ly need­ed funds. Mean­while, Speak­er Boehn­er and Sen­ate Demo­c­ra­t­ic Major­i­ty Leader Har­ry Reid are locked in qui­et talks to exempt them­selves and their staffs from the new law.

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Young people love President Obama. But will they love Obamacare?

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Young peo­ple love Pres­i­dent Oba­ma. But will they love Obamacare?

The real test will come this Octo­ber, when mil­lions of unin­sured peo­ple will be required to enroll in health insur­ance through health exchanges run by their state or the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

$52 a month for health insurance sounds like a great deal. But maybe not.

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Maybe Kevin Costner should build the new health exchanges.

Maybe Kevin Cost­ner should build the new health exchanges.

Would you pay $52 per month for health insur­ance cov­er­age? 

Palm Beach Coun­ty offi­cials thought peo­ple would.  They were wrong. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

WH Surrenders to Political Reality on Private Medicare Plans

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The Oba­ma Admin­is­tra­tion sur­ren­dered to polit­i­cal real­i­ty yes­ter­day, grant­i­ng a pro­gram that seniors love and that it loathes a reprieve from what would have been dev­as­tat­ing cuts.

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Budget Wars: Can They Bridge the Health Care Gap?

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Bud­get debates make good polit­i­cal the­ater. Each par­ty forces record­ed votes designed to score polit­i­cal points and embar­rass mem­bers of the oppos­ing par­ty. The House had fun yes­ter­day with some amend­ments before adopt­ing the Repub­li­can pro­pos­al writ­ten by Paul Ryan (R‑WI). The Sen­ate began debate on its pro­pos­al last evening and is brac­ing for Friday’s “vote-a-rama” – a day of record­ed votes on dozens of polit­i­cal­ly-barbed amend­ments advanced by mem­bers of both par­ties. Con­tin­ue read­ing →