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Social conservatives are losing the SSM battle (and getting desperate in Kansas)
I’m a little late to this but feel free to file this news under “Things that won’t happen this year;” the state of Indiana won’t put a measure on this year’s midterm election ballot that would...
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The CBO’s clumsy thumbs on minimum wage
Yawn. The most consistently disappointing firework I got during the fourth of July holiday growing up was the commonly termed “black snake.” You know, those little tubes that, when lit, silently unfurl...
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READ: Mike Grunwald on the White House stimulus report
Monday marked the 5th anniversary of the 2009 stimulus package — The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) plus related follow-up legislation. This week the Obama Administration will release...
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A glance at Obamacare’s “Woodwork Effect” so far
The headline number of the new enrollment data released by HHS on Wednesday was that nearly 3.3 million people have selected plans through either the state-based (SBM) or federally-facilitated (FFM)...
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The era of debt ceiling drama ends with a whimper
Now featuring less economy-threatening drama. You may have missed it late Tuesday but the debt ceiling was quietly suspended until March of next year by the Republican-controlled House of...
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Obamacare’s employer mandate (partially) delayed, again
But now with extra delay! Source: Flickr The Obama administration is partially delaying the employer mandate contained in the Affordable Care Act, again. The news dropped late Monday as a part of a...
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One data point for GOP movement on health care reform
I’m old enough to remember when we were discussing the Grand Ole Party taking health care reform seriously with the Patient CARE Act proposal. That was last week. This week the muddled debate over the...
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No, the CBO…
On Tuesday the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a whole heap of reports on various budget and policy projections. While the CBO expects the federal budget deficit to be larger...
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Three great reads from ThinkProgress
I’m normally partial to thinking the people over at ThinkProgress do good work, but even outside of that context this was a fantastic week for the progressive outlet. These three outstanding...
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Read: Austin Frakt on the “the politics of health reform”
Building off of the release of Republican Senators Burr, Coburn, and Hatch’s “Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act” to repeal and replace Obamacare, health...
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Bipartisan Farm Bill To Cut SNAP Benefits by $8 Billion
Congress is finally ready to pass a Farm Bill this week that would spend some $950 billion over the next ten years. Relative to the current baseline for funding on agricultural subsidies and food...
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Utah commits to Medicaid expansion. Are we at a tipping point?
This, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, is undoubtedly good news for thousands of uninsured Utahans. On Wednesday Utah Gov. Gary Herbert told reporters he wants to move forward on the Medicaid...
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Another Obamacare lawsuit bites the dust
You may have missed it but legal opponents of the Affordable Care Act were defeated in a DC District court case yesterday. In the decision Judge Paul L. Friedman rejected an argument that providing...
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Indiana wants to drug test welfare recipients (again)
Last week Republican lawmakers in Indiana signaled a renewed effort to legislate drug testing requirements for welfare recipients. As the Indianapolis Business Journal reported Thursday, the policy...
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Health care sector stumbles, retail soars, in latest jobs report
While the economy added an average of 182,000 jobs per month last year, yesterday’s jobs report underwhelmed. In the month of December we only gained 74,000 jobs, the lowest gain since the beginning...
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These health care reform stories need to be told too
Jonathan Cohn at the New Republic, as a leftward commentator, has consistently struck the best tone and balance on health care reform. One of his recurring frames through which to discuss the...
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Health care reform and ch-ch-ch-changes
Apologies for the title. It’s Friday. More seriously, though, there are two items on health care reform that I think are very instructive from a (mostly) practical point of view on the future of...
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Obamacare still leaves people with plenty of “skin in the game”
The signature health care law still leaves folks with ‘skin’ in the health care game. Earlier this week Jonathan Cohn wrote a piece titled “Two Key Facts That Are Overlooked in the Obamacare Debate.”...
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Kludging it up for their own good
Wikipedia description: “An early morning outside the Opera Tavern in Stockholm, with a gang of beggars waiting for delivery of the scraps from yesterday” Yesterday Dylan Matthews put up an interview...
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Obamacare’s 47 Percent
The Kaiser Family Foundation released their latest heath tracking poll for the month of October. According to the results the headline response is that the public has an unfavorable view of the...
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