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2012

Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies: photo

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…

Obama wins Round One of budget standoff photo

Obama wins Round One of budget standoff

December 7, 2012 – Now, the president will have to decide where he is willing to compromise on cutting government spending. There are, in fact, places where…

Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion photo

Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion

December 3, 2012 – The governors and the president needs the other. Each side has a (possibly perverse) stake in the other’s success. Each would also be…

Is health care headed for the ‘fiscal cliff?’ photo

Is health care headed for the ‘fiscal cliff?’

December 3, 2012 – It's hard not to think about the movie "Thelma and Louise" with all the dire predictions about the coming"fiscal cliff." House Speaker…

Can businesses really NOT afford ACA? photo

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 photo

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…

Why there is no “Next Big Idea” for reform photo

Why there is no “Next Big Idea” for reform

November 19, 2012 – Bottom line: The President doesn't need to come up with new ideas. He just has to stand firm on implementing what we…

Romneycare, Obamacare, and beyond

November 5, 2012 – Gruber was an architect of both Massachusetts' health reform effort aka Romneycare and also consulted extensively with the Obama…

Future of reform may turn on Senate races photo

Future of reform may turn on Senate races

November 4, 2012 – Even if Mitt Romney were elected, he alone could not overturn major provisions of healthcare reform. Only Congress can pass the legislation…

Forbes blogger, Romney surrogate,  launches 11th-hour assault on Obamacare photo

Forbes blogger, Romney surrogate, launches 11th-hour assault on Obamacare

November 1, 2012 – Blogger Avik Roy, a Romney campaign advisor, has released a last-minute - and misleading - flurry of posts purporting to demonstrate the…

Obamacare: six truths that matter to women photo

Obamacare: six truths that matter to women

October 31, 2012 – Extreme statements of a few Senate candidates have brought the abortion issue center-stage in this electoral campaign. Abortion certainly…

Fears of crowded doctors’ offices wrong

October 22, 2012 – In 2014, 12 million Americans will begin purchasing health insurance in the new marketplaces known as “exchanges.” Some are now…