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Harold Pollack
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…