Kudos not to Republican Senators John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. All heroes of last summer's vote barring repeal of Obamacare, all seemingly concerned about normative Senate procedures, all at least minimally sensitive to protecting against societal inequities, all caved early this morning to the first step in a GOP strategy to undo The …
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Mend it, don’t end it, and call it Trumpcare
Was it 50 or 60 times the GOP has voted to end Obamacare? With an incoming President who has called the law "a disaster," the oft-repeated move can now become reality, and the Republicans own it. But their move to repeal and, over several years, replace the Affordable Care Act is a recipe for chaos. …
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Health care – the end of the beginning and the beginning of hard work
Thanks to CNN and Fox, Thursday's SCOTUS announcement was an emotional roller coaster. Like the Dewey-beats-Truman headlines, they both were so eager to be first that they were wrong. Shame on them. This time, print media at least made a stab at reading the Supreme Court decision before pronouncing the individual mandate dead. And, of course, it wasn't. …
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Marjorie Arons-Barron 