Obamacare Helping Folks in Spite of Themselves

Heart-warming?  Tragic?  Amusing?  Aggravating?  I guess in the end, the point is that people are getting the health care they...

Video Primer: Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?

Here’s a useful and amusing video primer on the question of why American health care costs are so much higher...

More Sequester Damage: America’s Scientific Preeminence Threatened

More evidence today from Jonathan Cohn on the damage being done by the GOP’s reckless use of the sequester to...

Cohn: Anatomy of a Bogus Obamacare Argument

Obamacare exchange premiums in California were published a few weeks ago, and the news was good.  Premiums are significantly lower...

Wonkbook: The GOP’s Dangerous Obamacare Strategy

Wonkblog describes the Republican strategy on Obamacare (emphasis added): Republicans who’re unable to repeal it also refuse to permit any tweaks...

ObamaCare Exchanges Already Lowering Health Care Premiums

…from Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog this morning: Wonkbook: Some very good news for Obamacare Obamacare got some very good news on...

Intellectual Floor Falls Out From Under GOP on Austerity, Opposition to ObamaCare

Solid analysis today from Jonathan Chait.  The stubborn facts about austerity and about ObamaCare’s effect on health care cost inflation...

Medicaid Cruelty

Medicaid Cruelty

A nation that can’t summon a natural compassion for the poor—that can’t understand that many Americans face hardship in circumstances...

Return of the Death Panels

Return of the Death Panels

…from the Bill Foster campaign just now: Dear Steve, During the healthcare debate, Congresswoman Judy Biggert was forced to apologize for circulating...

This is What “Repealing Obamacare” Would Destroy

This is What “Repealing Obamacare” Would Destroy

House Republicans like Judy Biggert and Peter Roskam have voted 33 times to repeal Health Care Reform. Let’s remember that in...