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Medicare
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…
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…
Romney on style, Obama on substance
October 4, 2012 – During Wednesday's first Presidential Debate, President Barack Obama faced a confident Mitt Romney, who continued to play "rope-a-dope" on…
“A clear choice on election day”
October 3, 2012 – Boston University health economist and researcher Austin Frakt discusses the implications of the November elections with Harold Pollack in…
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…
‘It’s a floor wax. No, it’s a dessert topping.’
August 31, 2012 – Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are peddling a magical Medicare concoction that's appetizing to seniors – promised protection from $716 in…
Convention’s pants on fire over Obamacare
August 30, 2012 – Perhaps conventions are not where you expect truth to be told. But should they at least be places where lies are not so…
Ryan’s Medicare plan would ‘pave Paradise’
August 16, 2012 – It's not particularly helpful to either demonize or lionize Paul Ryan. Medicare needs to change and he has certainly made it a major point…
2012 elections aren’t just about health reform
June 15, 2012 – This legislative program is why the 2012 elections are the most important in living memory. Conservatives could achieve goals long in…
Despite reform, age rating still hits seniors
May 21, 2012 – Under reform legislation, insurers selling policies in the individual or small-group markets can charge older boomers up to three times…
Using reform as excuse to attack Medicaid
April 18, 2012 – “Repeal and replace” efforts to kill health reform especially focus on repealing the Medicaid expansion that would extend coverage in…
Ryan plan: crushing blow to Medicare
April 15, 2012 – Robert Greenstein, President of the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities (CBPP) dubbed Ryan’s proposal “Robin Hood in reverse – on…