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Category: ACA/Obamacare

More health insurers offer “Obamacare” plans, shifting the political landscape

October 6, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Business, Corporations, Health care, Politics One comment

Good news for health-insurance shoppers, bad news for Obamacare haters. For the 2015 enrollment period [which begins on November 15, 2014], healthcare shoppers will

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Infographic: Americans don’t go to the doctor very often

September 23, 2014 Bobbi Clemons ACA/Obamacare, Health, Health care 2 comments

Americans go to the doctor far less than their foreign counterparts. The most likely reason? It’s expensive. While the quality of healthcare in the

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Supreme Court on Hobby Lobby: Not funny, but cartoon-worthy

July 4, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Courts, Health care Leave a comment

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case is another step in the wrong direction for the U.S. The old white guys who

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Republican voices, listening to themselves

May 22, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Republican Brain, Republicans Leave a comment

What happens when Republicans get together to talk about current issues? Michael Bersin, of Missouri’s  Show Me Progress blog, recently sat in on a

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Living up to our Mother’s Day values through better maternity-leave policies

May 8, 2014 Renee Shur ACA/Obamacare, Good government, Women Leave a comment

Find a fragrant bouquet of roses. Purchase a gift card from mom’s favorite store. Pick up grandma and take her out for an afternoon

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“I’m a Republican…and Obamacare is the best health care I’ve ever had.”

March 31, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Republicans Leave a comment

In February, Mark D. Beardon, a retired psychologist living in Monroe, North Carolina wrote a letter to President Obama, letting him know how the

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Why insurance companies will undermine the Affordable Care Act

February 20, 2014 Madonna Gauding ACA/Obamacare, Banks, Corporations, Government, Health care, Privatization Leave a comment

In a recent article at Truthdig, “The Public-Private Profiteers,” Barabara Garson is critical of President Obama’s reliance on public-private partnerships to solve major social

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Dear Congresswoman Wagner: Disinformation about Obamacare can’t hide the facts

February 13, 2014 Willy Kessler ACA/Obamacare, Consumer issues, Employment, Health care, Missouri region, Politics, Republicans One comment

Rep. Ann Wagner’s (R-MO) hopping mad — or, more likely, hopping around — trying to get off the liar’s hot seat (remember the refrain “liar,

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Opting out of Medicaid expansion: Here’s how many people it hurts

February 7, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Health, Health care, Missouri region, Politics, Poverty, States, Uncategorized One comment

I live in a state whose Republican-controlled legislature decided to opt-out of Medicaid expansion. As you probably remember, expanding Medicaid was a key provision

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How the media went wrong on the CBO “Obamacare” report

February 6, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2014 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Health care, Language/Words, Media 3 comments

When the Congressional Budget Office released its report on the Affordable Care Act on Feb. 4, 2014, the headline in the next morning’s St.

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