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May 05 2014
Opinion
Massachusetts ditches RomneyCare health exchange
RomneyCarersquos pioneering health insurance exchange is headed for the scrap heap. Bay State officials are taking steps this week to junk central parts of their dysfunctional health insurance exchange mdash the model for President Barack Obamarsquos health care law mdash and merge with the federal enrollment site HealthCare.gov. The decision...
Politico
Nov 07 2019
News
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Raise Taxes by $26 Trillion
What she and Bernie Sanders are proposing is nothing short of a wholesale transformation of the size and scope of government.
One of the challenges presented by the leftward turn in the Democratic presidential primary race is effectively capturing the scale of the tax and spending proposals the leading candidates have put forth. The numbers regularly stretch into the trillions, or even
Reason
Mar 15 2013
Opinion
Employers Blast Fees From New Health Law
Employers are bracing for a little-noticed fee in the federal health-care law that will charge them 63 for each person they insure next year bringing into focus one of the clearest cost increases companies face when the law takes full effect.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Aug 05 2014
News
In States Where It's Wanted, Obamacare Is Working Well
Obamacare is already making a big difference in the states that actually embraced it.
States that expanded Medicaid and created their own health insurance exchanges, or worked closely with the federal government to cover more people, have shown the largest drops in their uninsured rates this year, according to a new poll released by Gallup and Healthways on Tuesday.
HuffPost
May 03 2021
Perspectives Blog
How Joe Biden Can Renew America’s National Dialogue
Reweaving the fabric of civil dialogue must be a national priority, and mediation is the way to do it right. “Too many Americans see our public life, not as an arena for mediation of our differences,” Joe Biden has observed, but “as an occasion for total, unrelenting, partisan warfare.” Mediation can be defined as the convening of people across differences in service of responsible problem-
Eugene B. Kogan
Sep 16 2013
News
U.S. releases illegal immigrants who are sex offenders
The news last week that federal authorities had to release 2,837 convicted sex offenders back onto the streets has renewed focus on a Supreme Court case that requires the government to release immigrants whose home countries wont take them back.
Washington Times
Mar 11 2017
News
Sessions’s Firing of 46 Obama-Appointed U.S. Attorneys Isn’t Scandalous
In March 1993, Janet Reno began her tenure as President Bill Clinton’s attorney general by summarily firing United States attorneys for 93 of the 94 federal districts (one, Michael Chertoff, was retained in New Jersey, at the request of Democratic Senator Bill Bradley). That is more than twice as many as Trump attorney general Jeff Sessions fired on Friday. Indeed, there were only 46 Obama-
National Review (News)
Jan 23 2015
News
House passes extreme ban on abortion coverage
House Republicans managed to pass an extraordinarily restrictive law to drop federal funding for abortion on Thursday, after deciding to pull the plug on a vote to ban abortions after 20 weeks scheduled for the same day. The vote ever-so-dramatically coincides with the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, as well as antiabortion activists’ annual March for Life in Washington.
Salon
Sep 13 2019
News
Democratic debate: Biden, Warren and Sanders spar over healthcare
Three frontrunners in the race to become Democratic Party candidate for US president have clashed over healthcare at the party's third debate.
The debate in Houston, Texas, was the first time Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders faced off on stage.
Former Texas lawmaker Beto O'Rourke drew some of the biggest applause with an impassioned plea for gun control.
The
BBC News
Nov 11 2013
News
Feds stiff Arizona border town for ambulance costs for immigrants
Many communities across the U.S. have problems getting reimbursed for sending ambulances to pick up patients, but for one community along the U.S.-Mexico border, the delinquent party is the federal government, which the city of Nogales says owes it hundreds of thousands of dollars for picking up immigrants.
Washington Times