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Friday, August 29, 2014

"We don't have a strategy yet" is a strategy

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Regardless of whether Obama's assertion that "we don't have a strategy yet" for confronting ISIS in Syria and potential...

Gideon Levy, Jeremiah

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I want to stay near silent in paying tribute, via this 2010 profile by Johann Hari, to Gideon Levy, Israel's most hated Jewish Israeli...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Inching toward immortality

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Kaiser Health News reports on medical research -- funded, albeit minisculey, by the ACA -- that taps into longstanding dreams: Imagine i...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Will the ACA reduce the disability rolls?

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Two years ago, I was riveted by TNR reporter Alec MacGillis' chat with a woman on line for a free REM medical clinic in rural Tenness...
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Monday, August 18, 2014

In which Clinton slams Obama by articulating his "organizing principle"

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A typical account of Hillary Clinton's assessment of Obama's foreign policy in the Goldberg interview ran like this one in the N...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

A stealth modernist's divine lamppost

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Lev Grossman, a fantasy writer whose works I have not yet been privileged to read, has a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful tribute to C. S....
Friday, August 15, 2014

"What's a subsidy?" -- It's hard to reach the uninsured

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Back in May, I noted a remarkable finding in a McKinsey survey of those who bought or sought health insurance in the individual market du...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Hillary Clinton was not so hawkish on Iraq

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Jonathan Ladd sensibly questions the premise that  Hillary Clinton would act like a hawk as president, as opposed to talking a little like...

If you're dropping ACA coverage for any reason, I'd like to hear from you

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[moving this forward per request for input at bottom...] Charles Gaba, ACA signups tracker extraordinaire, dives into a scary-sounding cl...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Hedges, lies and pablum: Clinton to Goldberg

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In a prior post, I may have overemphasized the hedge element in Hillary Clinton's interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, published Sunday. He...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Read Goldberg's interview with Hillary Clinton before you read Goldberg's account of that interview

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I've seen more than one tweet this morning to the effect that Hillary Clinton " threw Obama under an ISIS-driven Humvee " in ...
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Barbarians at the gate

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From Robin Wright in the New Yorker, a warning about the Islamic State that concentrates the mind: There is a broader danger. The direct...
Thursday, August 07, 2014

If you like your ACA plan, you very likely won't be renewing anyway

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Sam Baker and  Jonathan Cohn have both spotlighted a Milliman briefing paper warning of an important potential glitch looming as the ACA...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

The ACA preserved state regulation of health insurance

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Yesterday I noted that the state-vs.-federal exchange debate within the Democratic party in early 2010 was focused primarily on which leve...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

No, Ben Nelson didn't scuttle the ACA's federal exchange

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[Update, 1/29/15: As Jonathan Cohn reports , Nelson has just precisely confirmed the reading below of his position re federal and state e...
Friday, August 01, 2014

Michael Cannon gives the game away, cont.*

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The Halbig plaintiffs and their allies would have you believe that the titanic struggle in the Supreme Court in 2012 over the constitution...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Michael Cannon gives the game away

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Cato's Michael Cannon, a mastermind behind Halbig , has made much of video clips in which ACA architect Jonathan Gruber seems to sugge...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

What's the web got to do with it? -- the uninsured need human help

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I have an article forthcoming elsewhere (I hope) that examines why many people who visited healthcare.gov remained unaware that they were e...

Would you kill the Boys from Brazil?

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Professing himself a lifelong Zionist, Roger Cohen proclaimed a kind of apostasy yesterday: Jews, above all people, know what oppression...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

The ACA provision that should have killed Halbig

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Ever since a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court found in Halbig v. Burwell that the ACA only authorizes subsidies to be paid for ...
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