Here is a look ahead at what people who purchase insurance on the exchanges can expect in 2018.
Obamacare
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A Next Step Toward Universal Health Care: Medicaid For More
Making Medicaid buy-in the public option on the exchanges is an easy way to further expand coverage.
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Republican Who Wishes to Unseat Warren Declares: I’m Not A Wingnut! Honest!
Oh, what a tangled web Trumpists weave when first they practice to deceive… Apparently, it has dawned upon the far-right Elizabeth-Warren-sucks crowd that taking Breitbart to heart won’t be enough to unseat the Massachusetts Senator in 2018. To that end, her expected Republican opponent, Trump disciple Geoff Diehl, is now trying another time-honored Republican tradition: […]
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Obama’s Lesson for Patrick, Booker, Harris and Cuomo: Running for President Isn’t Worth It
Remember a decade ago, when the right-wingers were complaining about “Rudy McRomney,” i.e., the prospect of the supposedly insufficiently conservative Rudy Giuliani, John McCain or Mitt Romney becoming the 2008 GOP nominee? The “Rudy McRomney” stuff didn’t make a lick of sense–Giuliani, McCain or Romney would have had to answer to the GOP’s right-wing base […]
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Anyone Who Thought Trump Would Stand Up for the LGBT Community is a Fool
None are so blind as those who refuse to see, eh? It’s hard to fathom the mentality of anyone who thought Donald Trump would do anything to benefit members of the LGBT community–and it’s also hard not to react with sarcasm and scorn over the fact that some of the folks who supported Trump are […]
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The Conservative Media’s Role in Trumpcare’s Flameout
Fox News created a electoral base that couldn’t tolerate Obamacare, but also couldn’t tolerate any of the alternatives.
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The Republicans’ Addiction to Their Own Health Care Agony
If the GOP had any sense, they would have cut bait on repeal long before now.
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Republicans Senators Vote to Proceed on Obamacare Repeal
Obamacare repeal advances, but its future is uncertain.
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Why Republicans Are Failing to Repeal Obamacare
Analysis of this failure tends to focus on politicians and ignore the role played by the public.
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Senate Republicans Are Back to Repeal and Delay
Here’s why that is a dangerous and cynical ploy by Mitch McConnell.
