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Cadillac Plans, Mandates, and the Proletariat

Matt Osborne | Posted 01.03.2010 | Politics

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.

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Candidate Obama Opposed Senate's Health Care Mandates (VIDEO)

Posted 12.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Mandates, Health Care Bill, Senate, Mandates, Health Care Reform, Obama, Health Care Mandates, Health Care, Senate Health Care, Politics News

Candidate Obama might not be too pleased with one aspect of health care reform emerging under president Obama's watch. "If a mandate was the soluti...

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Health Care Without Bankruptcy, Please

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Mandates, Politics News

A mandate for health insurance would, if signed into law, would take the already flawed business model of health insurance and turn it into a perfect storm of financial and then physical ruin.

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Ignore Lieberman to Win Real Health Care Reform

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Rahm Emanuel, Mandates, Lieberman, Politics News

If we play by the 60 votes are needed rule, coupled with a weak White House that only threatens progressives, then the 60th Senator -- that is, the most unprincipled paid off Senator -- gets to write health care reform.

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Senators, Thanks For Reminding Us Why We Don't Like You

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Senate, Public Option, Medicare Buy In, Health Care Public Option, Mandates, Politics News

The fact that Lieberman retains his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee in the name of a political party he loathes illustrates the rot and decay of the Senate.

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A Public Option Tree in the Health Care Reform Forest

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Public Option, Medicare Buy In, Health Insurance Exchange, Cbo, Employer Mandate, Mandates, Individual Mandate, Excise Tax, Subsidies, Politics News

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.

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Democratic Party Out of Bounds

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marcia Angell, House Health Reform Bill, Public Option, Stupak Amendment, Dennis Kucinich, Mandates, Kucinich Amendment, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

To the House Dems who reportedly chanted "Fired up! Ready to go!": This isn't a pep rally. This situation calls for a little less partying and a little more party leadership, a few less amendments and a lot more amends.

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Health Reform: Look How Far We've Come. Now Where the Heck Are We?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wyden Amendment, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Health Reform, Opt Out, Mandates, Politics News

Putting Sen. Lieberman aside for a moment (and who wouldn't want to?), what can we expect to see if the final health reform bill conforms to Sen. Reid's outline?

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State Lawmakers Move To Ban Health Insurance Mandates

The New York Times | Monica Davey | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: State-Constitution-Amendments, American Legislative Exchange Council, Mandates, Health Care Reform, State-Laws, Health Care, Mandate, State Legislature, Politics News

ST. PAUL -- In more than a dozen statehouses across the country, a small but growing group of lawmakers is pressing for state constitutional amendment...

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Max Baucus Releases Health Care Bill With Bi-Industry Support

Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: 23/6: Comedy News, Individual Mandate Plan, Public Option, Mandates, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Health Insurance, Max Baucus Health Care, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Comedy News

Baucus was hiding in his office behind a large pile of money and not available for an interview but issued the following written statement...

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Admit It: A Robust Public Option Is Dead

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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With a robust public option dead, the only way to prevent a massive Democratic-sponsored bailout of the health care industry is to regulate insurance premiums and put a trigger on individual mandates.

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Why Americans Are Miseducated About Health Care Reform

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Abc, Public Option, Trudy Lieberman, Triggers, Rick Klein, Mandates, Health-Insurance-Exchange, Subsidies, Media, Health Care, Co-Ops, Journalism, Healthcare, Media News

A media consumed with tracking Obama's popularity has failed to educate the American citizenry about the key elements of the health care debate. Many so-called journalists are guilty, like ABC's Rick Klein.

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Veteran Health Care Journalist Grades Obama's Speech

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama, Public Option, Trudy Lieberman, Triggers, Insurance Exchanges, Healthcare, Mandates, Media News

Death panels with a pinch of Socialism. Either the president has failed to get his message to average citizens, or the media has distorted the message.

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President Obama Promises Major Speech "Every Few Hours"

Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy

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President Obama was contrite about possibly admitting to theoretical failures about maybe showing vague leadership about stuff and things lately.

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How Progressive Groupthink Hindered Health Reform

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ezra Klein, Rahm Emanuel, Max Baucus, Paul Krugman, Josh Marshall, Health Reform, Barack Obama, Joan Walsh, Mandates, Politics News

How could the president get the idea that an individual mandate, especially without a public option, was a "goody" for progressives?

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform, Part 2: What Is the Size Glove of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand?

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, Joe the Nerd, Conservative, Single Payer, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Mandates, Politics News

We need the government to create the environment where small business can make a buck, just like Adam Smith would have wanted it.

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Conservative Argument for Healthcare Reform: Part 1:Get Rid of Unsightly Unfunded Mandates

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adam Smith, Joe the Nerd, Conservative, Single Payer, Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, Mandates, Politics News

I just don't get it. You get a guy in the White House who is offering business the biggest tax break of our lifetimes, and he gets snubbed by every right-winger.

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The Incredible Shrinking Health Care Reform

Norman Solomon | Posted 09.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Time Magazine, Mandates, President Obama, Single Payer, Drug Lobby Insurance Companies, Organizing for America, Cokie Roberts, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Karen Ignagni, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Medicaid, Healthcare Reform, Physicians for a National Health Program, Home News

Notions of universal health care are fading in the power centers of politics -- while more and more attention focuses on the care and feeding of the insurance industry.

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

Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Illegal Aliens, Public Health Insurance Plan, Physician-Reimbursement, End of Life Consultations, Acorn, Private Health Insurance, Mandates, Health Reform Attacks, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Individual Mandate, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Reform, Health Benefits, Advance Directives, Politics News

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.

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Paging Team America: Who Will Save Laura & Euna?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Stephen Colbert, Public Plan Trigger, Congress, US Soldiers, Blaise Nutter, Public Option, Iraq War, Wilshire and Washington, Mandates, Ted Johnson, Teresa Valdez Klein, Maegan Carberry, Health Care, Politics News

When two American journalists are sent to prison in a foreign country, shouldn't the news organization at least support them and assuage public outrage by acknowledging and covering the situation on its own site?

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How to Follow the Health Reform Debate

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ezra Klein, Karen Tumulty, Massachusetts Health Reform, Mandates, Max Baucus, Public Plan Option, Health Care, Health Reform, Healthcare, Politics News

With Kathleen Sebelius's nomination beginning this week, the topic of health reform is about to heat up even more. Here's a handy guide to the action.

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Bob Novak Just Doesn't Get It

Brian Normoyle | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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The President-Elect flipped eight Bush states to the blue column and managed to get two states to elect a Democrat for President for the first time in nearly half a century.

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The Power in a Genuine Obama Mandate

Fred Goldring | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Mandates, Obama Mandate, 2008 Presidential Election, Senate Races, Politics News

A clear mandate would give President Obama and the Democrats a refreshing opportunity to demonstrate to the American people that such power can be transformative and healing, rather than divisive.

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New Jersey To Require Mandatory Kidney Donation

Kim Stagliano | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

The Garden State has passed a law that requires all healthy citizens to donate one kidney by age 45. Yes, the Garden State plans to reap your kidney. The law is called "Kidney2Me."

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