Tag Archives: Health care law

Why It’s a Bad Time to Hold on to Holder

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AG Eric Holder may have to help POTUS dig out from under mounting scandals. Credit: theatlantic.com

AG Eric Hold­er may have to go to help POTUS dig out from under mount­ing scan­dals.
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May 10 was sup­posed to be about health care and moms.  The White House mes­sage of the day was that the health care law is pro-moth­er­hood. The law’s detrac­tors, with their “polit­i­cal bick­er­ing,” “tall tales,” and “polit­i­cal games,” are, by impli­ca­tion, against motherhood.

The Pres­i­dent deliv­ered this mes­sage two days before Moth­ers Day at a White House event. But his mes­sage nev­er did get out. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Italian Lesson: What the President and Speaker Can Learn about Power from Giulio Andreotti

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Giulio Andreotti (credit: Corriere della Sera)

Giulio Andreot­ti (cred­it: Cor­riere del­la Sera)

“Pow­er only bur­dens those who don’t pos­sess it.”

– Giulio Andreot­ti, for­mer Ital­ian Prime Minister

What would Giulio Andreot­ti make of John Boehn­er and Barack Oba­ma? Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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 →

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 →