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2012
Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies:
December 13, 2012 – Beginning in 2014, millions of Americans will discover that they qualify for subsidies designed to help them purchase their own health…
Can businesses really NOT afford ACA?
December 1, 2012 – U.S. workers may think ACA-mandated health benefits from their employers are "priceless," but some business owners believe employees and…
Why Obama succeeded and Clinton failed
November 27, 2012 – Health policy historian Paul Starr, author of Remedy and Reaction, explains why Barack Obama succeeded on health reform while Bill Clinton…
Romney vs. Romney on health reform
September 27, 2012 – Romney's Massachusetts health reform is simply not the health reform he plans to take to the White House. All Romney has promised is higher…
Makers, takers, and health reform
September 3, 2012 – 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 reform: it’s having each other’s back
August 17, 2012 – Alleged Obamacare-related increase in price of Papa John's pizza ? 11 cents. Ensuring working Americans have a health care safety net?…
NAACP boos for Romney only the beginning
July 13, 2012 – Presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears amused during 15 seconds of booing that followed his comment that he would "eliminate every…
Lessons from Health Reform: Then and Now
July 1, 2012 – What the Clinton Administration tried to do with health reform may not have succeeded legislatively, but it taught us a lot of lessons that…
Ah, to be in a red state after health reform!
June 30, 2012 – Supporters of the Affordable Care Act breathed a sigh of relief after Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. Yet many remain worried about the…
Supreme Court upholds individual mandate
June 28, 2012 – We celebrate this decision was a huge win for millions of Americans who have so much at stake. We've said it again and again ... that the…
Health reform and ex-cons
May 9, 2012 – If I'm trying to sell health reform, the smiling waitress with two kids, the laid-off steel worker, and the 7th grader with cancer work…
A family’s health insurance ‘rabbit hole’
April 5, 2012 – Two years from now, when the main pillars of health reform become operative, young families will be able to buy decent coverage through an…