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Affordable Care Act
early and often
May 7, 2023
Bring Back the Public Option! Biden’s “battle for the soul of America” rerun won’t be enough against Trump in 2024. He needs to give voters something real.
early and often
Mar. 23, 2023
North Carolina Finally Takes the Money, Expands Medicaid Thirteen years after passage of the Affordable Care Act, GOP fiscal arguments against accepting a sweet deal from Washington are looking ridiculous.
Obama Reminds Biden Who’s Boss As the ex-president teased his former veep at the White House on Tuesday, it felt like 2010 all over again.
build back better
Nov. 19, 2021
Democrats Must Hope That Build Back Better Adds to the Deficit Biden’s social policy bill is fully paid for — if the bulk of it expires before the decade’s end.
american rescue plan
May 5, 2021
Ideology Is Still at Heart of the Red-State Refusal to Expand Medicaid Twelve states still refuse generous Medicaid expansion incentives. The excuse that it’s about money no longer applies, thanks to the latest stimulus.
covid-19 stimulus
Mar. 23, 2021
Stimulus Spurs New Push for Red-State Medicaid Expansion With Medicaid expansion really becoming a fiscal no-brainer, even states like Alabama and Wyoming are considering it.
budget reconciliation
Feb. 2, 2021
What Is Budget Reconciliation and Why Does It Matter for Biden’s Agenda? For 40 years, reconciliation has provided a way to bypass the Senate filibuster. It may be crucial for passing Biden’s stimulus plan.
Why Big Mo Matters to Biden Past presidents — including Barack Obama — who got off to a slow or clumsy start often paid dearly for it. Biden wants to avoid that fate.
supreme court
Nov. 10, 2020
Roberts and Kavanaugh Signal They May Save Obamacare Two members of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc indicate even if part of Obamacare is declared unconstitutional, the bulk of it will survive.
Amy Coney Barrett’s First Case Could Decimate The ACA In two weeks, she and the other conservative Supreme Court justices could rule to gut the ACA — leaving millions of people uninsured in a pandemic.
amy coney barrett
Oct. 21, 2020
Judiciary Committee Democrats Won’t Show Up for Final Vote on Barrett After Dianne Feinstein’s lovefest with Graham last week, Dems feel the need to demonstrate their opposition more forcefully.
It’ll Have to Be Completely Destroyed Maybe American health care will burn to the ground before it can be rebuilt.
supreme court
Sept. 21, 2020
How a New Conservative Justice Could Affect the Supreme Court A conservative Court would move to the right even more than arithmetic suggests on key issues like abortion as Roberts abandons his balancing role.
2020 elections
Aug. 5, 2020
Another Deep-Red State Votes to Expand Medicaid In a fairly close vote, Missouri became the 38th state to sign on, even as Republicans try to cripple the Affordable Care Act.
Deep-Red Oklahoma Narrowly Passes Medicaid Expansion More health care is popular, even in heavily Republican states.
If He Wants to Save the Country, Biden Needs to Understand Obama’s Failures If he wins, Biden will face challenges more daunting than those Obama faced, and failed to vanquish, in 2009. He’ll need to aim higher.
vision 2020
Apr. 15, 2020
As Coronavirus Rages, Republicans Still Don’t Have a Health-Care Plan In a pandemic, Republican fecklessness on health care is likely to be a bigger advantage for Democrats than it was in the 2018 midterms.
Supreme Court Will Hear Obamacare Case Shortly Before the 2020 Election When the Court takes up this case, voters will get a reminder shortly before Election Day that Republicans want to take away health-care coverage.
The Workers Who Sign Us Up For Obamacare Can’t Afford Health Care A federal contractor helps people sign up for Obamacare. But it pays poor wages, discourages unionization, and offers expensive health insurance.
medicare for all
Dec. 7, 2019
Do Americans Want Choice, Or Do They Just Want Health Care? There’s not much reason to think that Americans value consumer choice over affordability, or a guarantee of care.
health care
Sept. 10, 2019
Uninsured Rate Goes Up for First Time Since Obamacare The Trump administration’s campaign to undermine Obamacare seems to be working to an extent.
health care
Aug. 27, 2019
If Democrats Flip Senate, They Plan to Fix Obamacare, Not Pass Medicare for All If Democrats win the Senate and take on the filibuster, their health-care agenda will involve an Obamacare fix and some strengthening of Medicare.
vision 2020
Aug. 10, 2019
Is Beating Trump the Best Democrats Can Hope to Achieve in 2020? Maybe electability is the only candidate quality that matters if Democrats can’t figure out a way to enact their agenda.
health care
June 24, 2019
Trump Claims He Saved Obamacare, Despite His Multiple Attempts to Kill It The latest in a series of breathtaking presidential lies denies his entire first-term health-care policy record.
dan lipinski
May 22, 2019
House Democratic Campaign Committee Cancels Fundraiser for Anti-Abortion Dem Progressive and pro-choice groups refused to back off support for Lipinski primary opponent Marie Newman, and the DCCC threw in the towel.
The Health-Care Crisis Has Spread to Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance No wonder people want Medicare for All: Those deductibles, co-pays, and premiums are making insurance nearly useless for many.
trump administration
Mar. 26, 2019
The Trump DOJ Just Put Killing Obamacare Above the Rule of Law The Trump DOJ’s quest to kill the ACA by judicial fiat is an expression of contempt for democracy, rule of law, and competent governance.
Pelosi Returns to Speakership With a Far More Cohesive Democratic Majority Pelosi’s last House majority had significant divisions and bore the burden of Obama’s agenda. Today’s Democrats must only fight and investigate Trump.
health care
Dec. 17, 2018
Some Conservatives Aren’t Celebrating This Texas Ruling Against the ACA As much as conservatives hate the ACA, they know they can’t get rid of it without an alternative. And they still don’t have one.
Judge Strikes Down Obamacare, but the GOP Should Hold Its Applause Whether the decision holds up or not, Republicans won’t like what comes next.
2018 midterms
Oct. 29, 2018
Kemp Lies About Abrams Lying About Kemp’s Lies on Health Care Brian Kemp thinks the best defense against a damaging charge is an offensive myth about his opponent’s position.
2018 midterms
Oct. 17, 2018
McConnell Thinks Talking About Repealing Obamacare Helps the GOP in the Midterms If Republicans make Senate gains and hang onto the House, it’s remotely possible. That’s apparently what the GOP thinks its base wants to hear.
2018 midterms
Oct. 16, 2018
Even The GOP’s ‘Popular’ Health Care Ideas Are Politically Toxic Scott Walker is refusing to impose work requirements on Medicaid until after voters go to the polls.
2018 midterms
Sept. 6, 2018
Republicans: Trump Is a Mad King — Vote for Us to Give Him Unchecked Power As the midterm campaign enters the homestretch, the GOP is delivering the Democrats’ message for them.
health care
Aug. 23, 2018
Top Maine Court Orders GOP Governor to Stop Ignoring Voters and Expand Medicaid Maine’s fiery right-wing governor has vowed to go to jail before allowing a Medicaid expansion. He may get his wish.
White House Will Ask Judge to Scrap Obamacare’s Protections This September Democrats want to brand Brett Kavanaugh and House Republicans as threats to Americans’ health care. The White House is about to make their job easier.
brett kavanaugh
Aug. 11, 2018
Kavanaugh Is Encountering Little Resistance on His Way to the Supreme Court The likely unwinnable battle to derail his nomination lacks the energy of last year’s health care fight.
Virginia Is Giving Obamacare a Huge — If Belated — Win Democrats were able to wrangle a few GOP votes to expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of needy Virginians.
Conservatives Plan One More Obamacare Repeal Effort Before the Midterm Wave GOP congressional leaders have mostly packed it in for 2018. But conservatives, with White House support, may try one last time to repeal Obamacare.
Maine’s Governor Defies the Law and Voters on Medicaid Expansion Republican Paul LePage plans to block a voter-sanctioned measure via stubborn defiance of the law.
Incremental Health Reform Can Still (Slowly) Work While single-payer is a giant leap to universal health coverage, smaller steps have been and probably will continue to be necessary.
Obama Aides Strike Back at Chicago Democrat Who Didn’t Stand With POTUS They spoke out against Dan Lipinski, who’s facing a tough primary, after a mailer tried to link him to the 44th president.
House Democratic Leaders Rally to Defend Their Illinois Heretic Does a Democratic “big tent” really require that deep blue districts continue to elect congressmen like the right-of-center Dan Lipinski?
White House Tells Idaho to Sabotage Obamacare More Subtly Idaho wanted to nullify the law’s protections for people with preexisting conditions. Trump wants the state to quietly circumvent them.
Trump Administration Proposes Obamacare-Flouting Health Plans The administration is attempting to kill the law by a thousand cuts.
HHS Secretary Calls Blatant Violation of Health Care Law a ‘Cry for Help’ In what’s supposed to be a law-and-order administration, HHS’s tolerance for Idaho’s efforts to nullify the Affordable Care Act is astonishing.
Idaho Tries Bold Gambit: Ignoring Obamacare Rules It’s unclear whether the Trump administration and insurers will go along with this blatant effort to sabotage Obamacare by state executive order.
Busy Open-Enrollment Period Shows That Obamacare Is a Hard Target The Trump administration keeps trying to kill the law, but Americans won’t let it die.
Obamacare Is Off Life Support — for Now Despite Trump’s sabotage, sign-ups are surging and the law is more popular than ever.
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