Tag Archives: Affordable Care Act

CEPR: Dean Baker: ‘Can We Pay For Single Payer?’

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat “Originally Published on TRNN on Oct 27, 2016 Dean Baker of CEPR says if people could buy into a public option, it could seriously mitigate the price hikes Dean Baker BIO: Dean Baker co-founded CEPR (Center for … Continue reading →

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The Washington Monthly: Opinion: Martin Longman: White House Heroin Initiative is a Start

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Derik Schneider

The Washington Monthly: Opinion: Martin Longman: White House Heroin Initiative is a Start This is really something that we should’ve been doing since the so-called War on Drugs started in 1971. But then had we of done that, then maybe … Continue reading →

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The New Republic: The Long March to Medicare

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Republic The fiftieth anniversary of the most successful government health insurance program in the country, if not the most successful health insurance program period. No other health insurer has provided more health insurance to more Americans than Medicare. … Continue reading →

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On The Economy:Jared Bernstein: The Supreme Court and ObamaCare: Somehow Commonsense Prevailed

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Derik Schneider

On The Economy Jared Bernstein, progressive economist from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, has a very good pice about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act today. He talks about Chief Justice John Roberts and why … Continue reading →

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Reason Magazine: Shikha Dalmia: ‘SCOTUS Fuctus on ObamaCare”: Interpreting John Roberts’s King V Burwell Decision

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Ederik Schneider

“So the Supreme Court ruled in favor of handing out subsidies through federal exchanges in King vs. Burwell, once Obamcare rtcosmin / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA again letting the administration snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat. What is … Continue reading →

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James Pethokoukis: Supreme Court Upholds ObamaCare Subsidies: Where Do Republicans Go From Here?

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Rik Schneider

AEI: Ideas: James Pethokoukis: Supreme Court Upholds ObamaCare Subsidies: Where do Republicans go From Here? With the U.S. Supreme Court making the right decision in ruling in favor of the subsidies in the Affordable Care Act’s health care exchanges, (at … Continue reading →

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Associated Press: Mark Sherman- Explaining Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Erik Schneider

What I get from Mark Sherman, is that the challenge to the Affordable Care Act in King V Burwell, is that the challengers were saying that the subsidizes through the health care exchanges in the ACA are unconstitutional, because they … Continue reading →

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Reason Magazine: Why Medicare Will Always Need Fixing

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Ederik Schneider

“Over the last 14 years, Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate formula—the SGR, which was passed in 1997 as a way to keep Medicare spending growing in line with the economy—has scheduled deep cuts to physician reimbursements on 17 different occasions. On … Continue reading →

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The New Republic: Noam Scheiber: ‘What My Book Got Wrong About Obama, Summers, Geithner, Recovery’

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  It is rare at least in the last four years or so that I agree with Noam Scheiber on anything. And four years is most of the time that I’ve been blogging. You see more bipartisan cooperation … Continue reading →

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Reason Magazine: ‘How Medicaid & ObamaCare Hurts The Poor’

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:FreeState Now It’s not that we have a Federal health insurance program for the poor that’s the problem. But how it’s setup and run that is the problem because Medicaid was never setup to be run affordably and efficiently. The … Continue reading →

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