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We found some death panels. They didn’t come from health reform.
Archive for the ‘Affordable Care Act’ Category
November 5th, 2010
Category: 2011 Democratic Agenda, Affordable Care Act
McConnell’s speech at Heritage contains and astonishing admission: as long as Obama’s in the White House, the GOP agenda will go nowhere.
October 11th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Campaign 2012, Republican Party, US healthcare reform, Watching Conservatives
America’s health insurance companies seem to believe, along with Republicans, that they can screw up health care reform and get the voters to blame the Democrats for it. Maybe they’re right.
September 23rd, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, US healthcare reform
Humanity and social change, expressed through a boring form letter.
September 16th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act
The latest health insurance coverage figures are out. Fifty million Americans are uninsured. New figures underscore the necessity, and the maddening back-loading, of health reform.
September 1st, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Uncategorized
Last October, Jonathan Chait described GOP arguments against health reform as logically inconsistent, but for that very reason especially politically effective. If anything, this strategy will be even more hypocritical and potent in the midterm elections.
July 17th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Public management
The National HIV/AIDS strategy was released on Tuesday. The plan deserved greater appreciation and scrutiny than it got.
July 8th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Policy Analysis
My latest Kaiser Health News piece about Lebron James—I mean about Republican criticisms of the new high-risk health insurance pools. I have been concerned about this issue for a long time. Given the venue (KHN, not ESPN) and some final edits, the piece reads a little more naively bipartisan than I had intended. I don’t [...]
July 6th, 2010
The Berwick recess appointment will be evaluated through a partisan lens. It’s deeper than that. Too many obviously qualified people are caught in the confirmation process. I hope Democratic and Republican presidents do recess appointments more often.
