On January 27, 1998, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky revelations, Hillary Clinton appeared on the Today show and said, “The great story
Category: ACA/Obamacare
Screw the poor: Not expanding Medicaid cost red states $2 billion in 2015
Squandering $2 billion dollars in essentially free money is not what anyone would call “fiscal conservatism.” But that’s exactly what the phony fiscal conservatives
Media does for Bernie Sanders what it never did for Dennis Kucinich
The first question that Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders was, “A Gallup poll says half the country would not put a socialist in the
Gutting Medicare: Tea Party legacy?
My introduction to the Tea Party involved a Town Hall meeting where several Tea Party seniors were waving signs inscribed “Save our Medicare.” They
Some wins for Obama are better than others
June 2015 was a remarkable month for President Obama. In particular. the last week of the month was a real “winner” for the president.
New rules for Medicaid managed care: What do they mean for Missouri?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just released new rules, the first in over a decade, for Medicaid managed programs. These
No excuses: Expand Medicaid
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch correctly identifies problems with the Missouri Medicaid program (“Medicaid missteps,” May 10). But citing the system as “broken” as a
He didn’t buy Obamacare. Now he’s sick, and mad at…Obamacare.
Luis Lang, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, was making quite a comfortable living, and chose not to buy health insurance, because he had always
Sharyl Attkisson book measures Obama and U.S. against a false standard
In a recent Occasional Planet post, Susan Cunningham writes: “We can blame the NRA all we want, but the enemy, as Pogo said, is
Obamacare enrollment, Year 2: Mainstream media outlets ignore success
The ACA [Obamacare] is alive and growing—and Year 2 of enrollment is going quite well, but you’d never know that if you get your