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Category: ACA/Obamacare

What we’ve learned from right wing reaction to Obama, and now Trump

December 15, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Democracy, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

On January 27, 1998, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky revelations, Hillary Clinton appeared on the Today show and said, “The great story

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Screw the poor: Not expanding Medicaid cost red states $2 billion in 2015

October 25, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Politics, Poverty, Republicans, States, Uncategorized Leave a comment

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

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Media does for Bernie Sanders what it never did for Dennis Kucinich

October 16, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Campaigns, Democracy, Democrats, Good government, Health care, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections 4 comments

The first question that Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders was, “A Gallup poll says half the country would not put a socialist in the

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Gutting Medicare: Tea Party legacy?

July 28, 2015 Willy Kessler 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

My introduction to the Tea Party involved a Town Hall meeting where several Tea Party seniors were waving signs inscribed “Save our Medicare.” They

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Some wins for Obama are better than others

July 1, 2015 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Civil liberties, Courts, Democracy, Employment, Gender issues, Health care, Justice, Military, Obama, Violence Leave a comment

June 2015 was a remarkable month for President Obama. In particular. the last week of the month was a real “winner” for the president.

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New rules for Medicaid managed care: What do they mean for Missouri?

June 8, 2015 Mary Clemons ACA/Obamacare, Health care, Missouri region, Social Sec/Medicare Leave a comment

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just released new rules, the first in over a decade, for Medicaid managed programs. These

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No excuses: Expand Medicaid

May 14, 2015 Mary Clemons ACA/Obamacare, Missouri region, Republicans, Social Sec/Medicare, States Leave a comment

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

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He didn’t buy Obamacare. Now he’s sick, and mad at…Obamacare.

May 13, 2015 Steve Sorkin ACA/Obamacare, Republicans Leave a comment

Luis Lang, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, was making quite a comfortable living, and chose not to buy health insurance, because he had always

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Sharyl Attkisson book measures Obama and U.S. against a false standard

January 17, 2015 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Government, Media, Obama Leave a comment

In a recent Occasional Planet post, Susan Cunningham writes: “We can blame the NRA all we want, but the enemy, as Pogo said, is

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Obamacare enrollment, Year 2: Mainstream media outlets ignore success

December 11, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Media Leave a comment

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

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