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This is incredibly sad, outrageous or corrupt, depending on where you sit, but it is being reported that Kathleen Sebelius has been asking health insurers to help fund the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. Rand Paul’s “news flash” for Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss tells a reporter that “I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.”
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Rep. Paul Ryan has figured out a way to balance the budget: Give corporations and wealthy people tax breaks they don’t need while aggressively cutting health and social programs that middle and lower-income Americans do.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a major reversal by Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Obamacare and the NRA is already working to influence the 2014 election.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — Mindful of the bewildering complexity of the issues they report, the best journalists are also teachers who patiently explain the deep meanings and consequences of their findings in language literate audiences can understand. With the Affordable Care Act going into full effect in less than a year, a detailed lesson on how it will impact many Americans’ finances is urgent.
Posted on Feb 9, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The human capacity to put passion and intense feeling over cool rationality does not surprise us when it comes to love, sex, family, friendship, certain kinds of religious commitment and even devotion to sports teams.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By failing to submit their Obamacare plans before the deadline, several Republican-dominated states handed control of their health insurance programs to the federal government by default.
Posted on Dec 15, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Throughout the country, health professionals, politicians and health care activists are meeting about how to implement the Affordable Care Act now that it has been upheld by the Supreme Court and President Barack Obama’s re-election.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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A policy set to be enacted by the nation’s largest private employer would deny health insurance to new employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, effectively shifting costs from the company to you.
Posted on Dec 2, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including another legal challenge to President Obama’s health care law and billionaire Warren Buffet discusses what Congress should do about taxing the wealthy.
Posted on Nov 26, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Democratic congressman’s resignation and why Joe Scarborough is apologizing to Nate Silver.
Posted on Nov 21, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest governor to put a foot down on Obamacare and Chris Christie appears on “Saturday Night Live.”
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
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John Metz is hitting his customers with a 5 percent surcharge to offset the cost of paying for the health care program.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By Clancy Sigal, Reader Supported News —
I’m critical of Obama’s presidency, but my medical emergency convinced me that for Obamacare alone we must re-elect him.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — My family survived the Great Recession because of the policies of the Obama administration. I suspect we were not alone in benefiting from one or another of the various relief programs.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is a difference between Obama saying that Romney and Ryan want to alter Medicare fundamentally, which is true, and the GOP saying that Obama wants to undercut Medicare, which is not.
Posted on Aug 19, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Here’s a chance for all who think Obamacare is a socialist Big Government scheme to put their money where their ideology is: If you truly hate the Affordable Care Act, you must send back any of those rebate checks you receive from your insurance companies thanks to the new law.
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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Parker Michael Knight (CC BY 2.0)
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President Obama’s new health care law cuts money used to pay for emergency care for undocumented immigrants, a service that some of the nation’s most hard-pressed hospitals have long been required to provide.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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By Joe Conason — The political salience of the Aurora tragedy extends beyond the usually sterile argument over gun control.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jul 15, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
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By Bill Blum — With the “salvation” of the Affordable Care Act, the Roberts court has pushed constitutional authority toward a form of federalism that advances the interests of corporations above the rest of society.
Posted on Jul 7, 2012
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Trying to sort out the status of Obamacare can be tricky thanks to our dysfunctional leadership class; Republican state Sen. Marty Golden wants to teach Brooklyn’s women “the art of feminine presence”; meanwhile, a group of Mormons quits the church in a mass ceremony in Utah. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jul 4, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Now that the Supreme Court has reprieved the Affordable Care Act and Mitt Romney has renewed his pledge to dismantle it, let’s try again to pierce the Republican presidential candidate’s protective coat of vagueness and think about where he would take the country.
Posted on Jul 4, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch —
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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Multiple unnamed sources confirmed that Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the conservative bloc of the court before switching his vote on health care reform, says CBS News’ Jan Crawford.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer, Lisa Bloom, ACLU Arizona Executive Director Alessandra Soler and Move to Amend’s David Cobb on the Supreme Court. Also: A big city goes bust.
Posted on Jul 1, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer, Lisa Bloom, ACLU Arizona Executive Director Alessandra Soler and Move to Amend’s David Cobb on the Surpeme Court. Also: A big city goes bust.
Posted on Jul 1, 2012
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The Supreme Court retained President Obama’s health care overhaul. Congressional opponents of the law plan a House vote on repeal as early as two weeks from now. And the House voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal and civil contempt of Congress over the refusal to disclose documents related to a bungled firearms sting.
Posted on Jun 30, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today —
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including congressional action on student loan rates and Glenn Beck trying to profit off of the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling.
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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Dr. Oliver Fein of Physicians for a National Healthcare Program, Wendell Potter, a whistle-blower and former executive at Cigna and Humana, and Jodi Jacobson, editor in chief of RH Reality Check, discuss the consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The political impact of Thursday’s stunning Supreme Court decision on health care reform is clear. Much more important is what the ruling means in the long term for the physical and moral health of the nation.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Supreme Court’s decision upholding the health care law is not only a huge victory for President Obama but also a moment of leadership for Chief Justice John Roberts. The court’s mixed verdict could create problems, notably in its weakening of the law’s Medicaid provisions in the name of states’ rights.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Supreme Court decisions, the U.S. attorney general being held in contempt and why Bill O’Reilly should apologize.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Mitt Romney and his advisers have not yet grasped that the health care decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts has changed the terms of the debate.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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AP/J. Scott Applewhite
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The central provision of President Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — “Obamacare” isn’t about President Obama. It’s about beginning to bring an end to the scandal of a very rich nation leaving so many of its citizens without basic health coverage. However the court rules, we need to remember why this whole fight started in the first place.
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Middle East expert Juan Cole says Egypt’s military rulers have “begun acting stupidly.” Also: 5.6 million new jobs (with a catch), the problem with Obama’s immigration policy, and Robert Scheer on health care.
Posted on Jun 22, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Middle East expert Juan Cole says Egypt’s military rulers have “begun acting stupidly.” Also: 5.6 million new jobs (with a catch), the problem with Obama’s immigration policy, and Robert Scheer on health care.
Posted on Jun 22, 2012
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