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Harold Pollack
Will health reform still be a ‘BFD’ in 2014?
January 28, 2014 – In the final segment of our interview, Jon provides a short list of indicators he expects to use in the coming year to determine whether…
Obamacare pitfalls and protections
January 27, 2014 – In Part 1 of my interview with Jonathan Cohn, we talked about what’s working with the Affordable Care Act (and what’s not) – and also…
The State of Obamacare
January 26, 2014 – This week, we have a return appearance by Jonathan Cohn, senior editor at The New Republic. He's one of the nation's most widely read and…
Medicaid – and what having it means to ERs
January 2, 2014 – Although the dollars at stake are small, this finding will probably generate much partisan sniping related to health reform. Liberals will…
‘Pajama Boy’: Id of the anti-ACA machine
December 23, 2013 – Critics can joke all they want about 'Pajama Boy,' but the campaign's message is no joke: We owe it to our kids to have this conversation…
FDR’s lesson for skittish Democrats
December 17, 2013 – " ... We certainly can draw lessons from [FDR] ... that you cannot leave the field. And what I've seen over and over again ... the…
Identifying Obamacare’s victims
December 12, 2013 – Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times talks with Harold Pollack about his interviews with the subjects of two high-profile Obamacare…
How the media gets social insurance wrong
December 10, 2013 – In Part 2 of my interview with Michael Hiltzik, Michael notes that there are parallels between the media's coverage of the rollout Social…
FDR’s New Deal and Obama’s newer deal
December 8, 2013 – My guest this week is Michael Hiltzik, a columnist with the Los Angeles Times and the author of The New Deal: A Modern History, now out in…
‘There will be some bugs …’
November 26, 2013 – 'There will be some bugs. People will emerge with some bug bites on them, but you know the health system before ACA was one in which 50…
Getting the scoop on Obamacare
November 22, 2013 – In Part 3, Joanne Kenen and Harold Pollack talk about how media’s been covering the rollout of Obamacare – and what reporters are…
ACA’s winners far outnumber its losers
November 20, 2013 – "OK, people with cancelled insurance policies have a grievance. So does the much larger group of uninsured people with serious diagnosed…