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

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

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

“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?

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

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

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

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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CATO Institute: Ilya Shapiro: ‘ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion Violates Federalism’

Source:FreeState Now I would’ve gone farther to bring down healthcare costs with things like preventive care, taxing junk food and drink, getting junk food and drink out of public schools, encouraging people to eat healthy and exercise, mandatory physical education … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Times: Report: David G. Savage & Noam N. Levey: Medicaid Could be in U.S. Supreme Court’s Sights

This post was originally posted at FRS FreeStateNow on WordPress, March, 2012 As part of trying to expand health insurance to uninsured Americans in 2010, when President Obama and Congressional Democrats created the Affordable Care Act in 2010, They put … Continue reading

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TruthOut: A.W. Gaffney: ‘The Problem With The Private Option’

Source:The New Democrat  You can get on right-wing governors for not expanding Medicaid in their state all you want. But the fact is if Medicaid wasn’t an unfunded mandate to begin with which is a Federal program that is forced … Continue reading

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