Critics use reform as new excuse to attack Medicaid - Politically driven...
“Repeal and replace” efforts to kill health reform especially focus on repealing the Medicaid expansion that would extend coverage in 2014 to millions of low-income adults and kids. Ironically, these...
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A clarifying choice - Selection of Paul Ryan brings into focus Mitt Romney's...
Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate brings into focus Romney's willingness to weaken the government’s core commitments to the elderly and disabled, and to senior citizens.
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Health reform, Medicare and Romney’s running mate - The August 15 edition of...
The latest edition of Health Wonk Review is hosted by the kind folks over at the Disease Management Care Blog t's chock full of health reform blog posts, from "obscure legal theorizing over the...
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Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan would ‘pave Paradise’ - Americans should get...
It's not particularly helpful to either demonize or lionize Paul Ryan. Medicare needs to change and he has certainly made it a major point of debate. But it's important for people of all ages to...
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Convention rhetoric about Obamacare inflammatory, but mostly because...
Perhaps conventions are not where you expect truth to be told. But should they at least be places where lies are not so blatant?
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It’s a floor wax. No, it’s a dessert topping. - The Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are peddling a magical Medicare concoction that's appetizing to seniors – promised protection from $716 in purported ObamaCare cuts to Medicare – but also mouth watering to...
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Makers, takers, and health reform - Alleged 'takers' often go unnoticed in...
Romney running mate Paul Ryan's speech last week criticized President Obama for enacting "a new entitlement we didn't even ask for." But health policy writer Harold Pollack says the WE Ryan embraced...
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‘Are we better off because President Obama fought for health care reform? You...
Harold Pollack: Clinton delivered the best speech of the 2012 campaign. "No one in American politics can rival Clinton's ability to weave history and policy detail into a stem-winding performance that...
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Ryan and Romney’s fuzzy math catches up to them - Wonks note there's a world...
"For 30 years, Republicans have been getting away, politically, with providing fuzzy numbers about so many things. The Romney campaign has rather explicitly decided that it's better to offer vague...
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Is health care headed for the ‘fiscal cliff?’ - Sacrifices on health care...
It's hard not to think about the movie "Thelma and Louise" with all the dire predictions about the coming"fiscal cliff." House Speaker Boehner and President Obama may be our modern day Thelma and...
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The 37th vote to repeal health care reform: Why? - Does 'face time' for...
I like economist Jared Bernstein's paraphrase of CBO's response: "You guys go ahead and keep gettin' your crazy on ... over here we're kinda busy doin' actual work, so can't help you right now."
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