Ethan Rome

The Republican leaders in Congress have mostly defined themselves by what they're against, but now they've announced what they're for -- the most popular parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

I can only imagine the political identity crisis this is causing within the GOP. Their hallmark is

Fidelity Investments, the gigantic Wall Street mutual fund company, says it will cost a retired couple $20,000 more to buy their medicines if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act.

Driven by extremist partisan politics, the Republicans have been working hard to impoverish seniors with...

The Supreme Court will uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) not only because it's constitutional, but because to do otherwise would impose a massive judicial intervention in one of the economy's most complex sectors and derail a train with millions of individuals and businesses on board.

If the conservative...

During the oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act, Justices Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia expressed concern about how the court's actions might affect the bottom line of health insurance companies. They didn't talk about how striking all or part of the law would hurt the...

First the Supreme Court handed the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush. Then it gave corporations the green light to buy our elections with unlimited secret political spending (Citizens United). Now the Court is considering taking away the very ability of Congress to pass laws that address...

In Tuesday's oral arguments at the Supreme Court about the Affordable Care Act, the attorney representing the 26 states challenging the law called for a new general tax to pay for the costs of ending the private insurance industry's discrimination against women and people with health conditions.

It appears to...

The radical Republicans have been waiting years for this day. They've managed to get the very idea of government argued before the Supreme Court. It's part of their effort to tear down President Obama and the new health care law and take away benefits and consumer protections that...

The Republican budget proposal says our worst days are ahead and the only way to avert a calamity is for working families and seniors to suffer so the rich can get richer. The Republicans say their assault on the middle class is necessary to avoid "debt, doubt and...

When the Republicans release their budget next week, they'll likely say they have a "new" Medicare proposal that will "save" Medicare instead of eliminate it. That's not true. The Republicans still plan to end Medicare as we know it. But this time they'll do so with the support of Democratic...

In case anyone in America didn't know, Mitt Romney is rich. So rich, in fact, that yesterday on his 65th birthday, he announced that he's not planning to sign up for Medicare.

I'm not sure what Romney's trying to prove, but what his action says is clear:...

Now that the Republican candidates have agreed on setting back women's health care to the 1950s, Mitt Romney is breaking out of the pack by announcing he'd raise the eligibility age for Medicare. All the Republican candidates want to eliminate Medicare as we know it and replace it...

Mitt Romney has lied day after day on the campaign trail, but yesterday he topped himself when he pledged to preserve Medicare and Social Security at an event in the Sunshine State. The truth is exactly the opposite: Mitt Romney and the Republicans want to eliminate Medicare and...

In his State of the Union address, President Obama has a compelling story to tell the country about the importance of health security to America's middle class and why we have to stop the Republican assault on Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA is an extraordinary...

In the debates and campaign ads leading up to the New Hampshire primary a new strain of Republican politics has suddenly surfaced -- a brand of compassionate capitalism that, were it to come from President Obama, Newt Gingrich would describe as socialism.

Gingrich has led this emergence with his...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) tried to cheat the families of his state out of $145 million in health insurance rebates, and the Obama administration said no. By rejecting Florida's bogus attempt to be exempted from a consumer protection in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the administration sent...

The Republicans in Congress have allegiance to only two things -- protecting the 1% and waging ideological warfare at the expense of everything else. As a result, we're now witnessing what appears to be the remarkably precipitous decline of our country's ability to govern itself -- something unimaginable only a...

Americans for Prosperity, the right-wing advocacy tool of the infamous Koch Brothers, is hosting a national conference Friday and Saturday cynically called, "Defending the American Dream." Featured speakers include Herman Cain, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. They've got workshops on topics like killing collective bargaining and repealing health care reform.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to cheat the families of his state out of $140 million in health insurance rebates. If Scott gets his way, it could harm consumers across the country.

Ripping off consumers and the health care system isn't new to Florida Gov. Rick Scott. He got rich...

At an Occupy Wall Street event in Minneapolis, last weekend protesters held up a sign that asked, "Had Enough?" A simple question. An expression of outrage. People are rightly and righteously angry, but they're also scared and worried about the future. That's why these protests across the country are

America's families and small businesses are barely hanging on while the Wall Street-run health insurance profit machines have been jacking up rates and providing less care. That's why it makes sense for Occupy Wall Street protesters to occupy them as well.

In an excellent post on Monday, former health insurance...