Romneycare

As GOP Backs Away From 'Repeal And Replace,' Media Remains Largely Inattentive

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.15.2012

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Over at Daily Intel, Jonathan Chait notices that after many months of vowing to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act, the GOP has applied Lean...

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Romney and Health Care

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 05.02.2012

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To put it simply: going back to the drawing board in order to pass a better law is a delusion. We need to use this opportunity because we will not have another one soon.

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Obama Campaign Faces Choice: Romney As Goldwater Or As Godfather Of Mandate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 04.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -– One of the first clues that President Barack Obama intended to paint Mitt Romney as a right wing extremist came during his remarks at ...

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Thousands of Poor Hawaiians To Lose Health Benefits As State Seeks Huge Savings

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.16.2012

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Hawaii, one of just two U.S. states with a near-universal health care program, will cut off benefits for about 3,500 working-age adults this summer. ...

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Is the Healthcare Mandate a Tax?

Jonathan Kolstad | Posted 04.13.2012

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The Supreme Court's task is to rule based on the legal questions at hand, but we think the economic ones are also important, given the Massachusetts experience.

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Obama Campaign Celebrates 'Romneycare' Anniversary

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 04.12.2012

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The Obama campaign isn't about to let Mitt Romney forget about his health care law -- or that the president used it as a model for the Affordable Care...

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Hey, Etch A Sketch Conservatives: Time to Resurrect Some Honesty

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.09.2012

A spring awash with Etch A Sketch conservatives, camera-wielding GOP con men and a bogus deficit reduction budget from House Republicans shows that for the right, wrong is justified when it achieves the desired results.

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Ann Romney Wouldn't Find Free-Market Health Care Without Mitt Romney's Millions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.06.2012

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If Ann Romney weren't wealthy, she might have even more in common with Kelly Gaeckle. Both women suffer from multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurolog...

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Mitt Romney Claims President Obama Will 'End Medicare'

The Huffington Post | Zach Carter | Posted 04.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In a speech Wednesday, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney attacked President Barack Obama's signature health care policy by f...

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Defending the Indefensible: Getting Beyond Insurance and Obamacare

Bob Jacobson | Posted 05.29.2012

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I opposed President Obama's health care "reform" bill, because it began life already a slave to the insurance company-spawned ideology of health care as a market commodity and not a basic human right.

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Overturning Obamacare Would Make Roberts Court Most Activist, Partisan in Modern History

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.28.2012

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Time was, not long ago, when the right wing railed against the overreach of unelected judges with lifetime appointments who tried to usurp the power of Congress and impose their own vision of society. That was before the Roberts Court.

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The Court and the Mandate: Let the 'Left' Be Left Again

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.27.2012

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It would be seen as a sign of strength if the President announced that, no matter what the Supreme Court decides, he intends to make sure that health insurance companies don't get a free ride in this country.

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Guess Where 'I Like RomneyCare' Website Sends Readers?

The Huffington Post | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.26.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's campaign won't be amused by what some pranksters have done with a new "I Like Romneycare" website. Anyone who goes to t...

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Romney Op-Ed Trashes Healthcare Reform

Posted 03.22.2012

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is marking the second anniversary of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform legislation Fr...

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Individual Mandate Not Necessary for Universal Coverage

Andrew Pavelyev | Posted 05.22.2012

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It would be much better to acknowledge the reality and replace the individual mandate with explicit direct taxes. New taxes would need to raise a lot of revenue, but for most of the middle class they would be offset by big pay increases.

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Rick Santorum's Health Care Reform In '94: You Pay

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 03.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- As the GOP presidential primary has been essentially winnowed to a two-man race, Rick Santorum has ramped up his rhetoric against Mitt R...

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How Nixon, Obama And Romney Join In The Arc Of History

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 05.19.2012

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WASHINGTON — Now here's a tag team for the ages: Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama. The arc of history joins all three in the cause of u...

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Mitt Romney's Health Care Op-Ed Gives Him A Big Problem

Ryan Grim | Posted 05.04.2012

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The immediate reaction to Mitt Romney's 2009 USA Today op-ed on health care reform has zeroed in on his suggestion that President Obama pursue an individual mandate. But that focus misses a broader problem the op-ed creates for Romney.

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Mitt Romney Pushed RomneyCare As Model For Obama In 2009

Huffington Post | Peter Finocchiaro | Posted 03.03.2012

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Health care reform has been perhaps the biggest policy obstacle to Mitt Romney's presidential hopes since Congress passed the national overhaul early ...

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Romney Urged Obama To Embrace Individual Mandate In 2009

Talking Points Memo | Posted 03.03.2012

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In July 2009, Mitt Romney called on President Obama to require Americans to buy insurance as part of his health care plan, using "tax penalties" as a ...

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New Data Suggests Insurance Premium Growth Slowed in MA After Romney's Reforms

Fred Bauer | Posted 04.25.2012

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One of the banner claims against Romney's Massachusetts health-care reform is that this reform caused premiums to skyrocket. New data shows otherwise.

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Rick Santorum Compares Mitt Romney To Michael Dukakis

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.23.2012

Tired of hearing Mitt Romney crow about his record of balancing the budget while governor of Massachusetts, Rick Santorum delivered what may have been...

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Still Kicking, Santorum Keeps Hammering Away at Romney

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 04.08.2012

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Santorum's attacks could hurt Romney significantly, not just by depressing turnout but by reinforcing the deep divide in today's Republican Party between the pro-Romney establishment and the anti-Romney rest of the party.

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Santorum: Romney 'Absolutely Incapable' Of Making Case Against 'Obamacare'

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 02.06.2012

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Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is down, but not out. After a last-place finish in Saturday's Nevada caucus, the GOP presidential hopeful is upping ...

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America Newtered

Jim Worth | Posted 04.01.2012

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One party has lost its way and has no clue how to get out of the nightmare it's in or which path will take them out of it. What's at stake is control of the most powerful nation in the world.

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