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The Bill Includes Health Insurance for Slackers!

Richard Grenell | Posted 03.14.2010 | Politics


Richard Grenell

While ski bums everywhere are cheering the news that the federal government will be forcing parents to pay for their health insurance through age 26, parents are questioning why this is in the bill.

Why Courts Matter - A 2010 Lesson for Progressives

Doug Kendall | Posted 01.11.2010 | Politics


Doug Kendall

The Supreme Court could change electoral politics as we know it in America today by perverting the Constitution to bar the people and their elected representatives from limiting corporate political spending.

Cadillac Plans, Mandates, and the Proletariat

Matt Osborne | Posted 01.03.2010 | Politics


Matt Osborne

I'm happy for union workers who've earned "better" plans through collective bargaining. But I'm somewhat unsympathetic on the subject when most of us working stiffs can't afford any plan at all.

Ride the Populist Wave: Restore Glass-Steagall!

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Populism is not so much a political stance (as "conservatism" is, for instance) as it is a political tactic. Meaning it can be used equally well by either side of our current American political divide.

Jason Linkins

Expanded Health Care Coverage? Rumors Are Greatly Exaggerated, Unless Paying Fines Is Now 'Health Care'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics


Well, for my next trick, I was going to demonstrate that the contention that the watered-down Senate health care compromise will nevertheless lead to ...

A Public Option Tree in the Health Care Reform Forest

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics


Aaron E. Carroll

However it started, the public option is now a shell of its former self. At best it's opt-out or triggered. You can only get it if you're in the insurance exchange.

An Individual Mandate to Purchase Health Care Insurance Is Constitutional

David Orentlicher | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics


David Orentlicher

Some experts say that the federal government does not have the power to require people to buy an insurance policy. But the proposals in the current legislation actually fall well within the demands of our Constitution.

The Big Fights and the Big Benefits in the Bill

Mike Lux | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Mike Lux

The good news is that under all the hullabaloo of the public option fight and the horrendous Stupak amendment, there is actually a lot of good things that are pretty well-settled assuming a bill gets passed.

Sam Stein

Massachusetts Official Refutes Latest GOP Health Care Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics


The hot new Republican hit on health care reform legislation came in the form of a press release from Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich). Under Democratic-aut...

Health Insurance Companies Want Severe Penalties For People Who Do Not Buy Coverage

The Associated Press | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON (AP)-- The health insurance industry doesn't want Congress to let you off easy if you decide to ignore a proposed requirement that all Amer...

Sam Stein

Conservatives Turn Their Sights On Health Care Reform's Most Obvious Provision

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics


Democrats are bracing themselves for a new line of conservative attack against a provision in the health care legislation once considered so non-contr...

President Obama: Make Sure Families Can Afford the Insurance They Are Forced to Buy

Roger Hickey | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics


Roger Hickey

Obama has done the easy part: agreeing to a windfall for the insurance companies. How does he make sure people are happy with the quality and cost of the insurance they're going to be forced to buy?

The "Insurance Companies Support Health Care Reform" Gambit

David Dayen | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


David Dayen

Private industry has begged off completely from limiting health care costs through any means other than denying coverage to their customers and rationing.

So it Begins -- the August Attack on Health Care Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics


Linda Bergthold

I received a mass email that exhorted the recipients to pray because of the disaster to befall on us if health care reform is passed. I went through every charge and answered it.

No Recovery in Sight -- Unless We Pass Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics


Linda Bergthold

A new study came out today that claims that half a million people in California have lost their health insurance coverage during the recession.