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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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