Political Journalists Should Follow the Lead of Insurance Industry CEOs and...
Meanwhile, health insurers warned that Rubio’s legislation [to kill the insurance risk-corridors provision in the ACA] would lead to the government-run health-care system that most alarms...
View ArticleMichigan Republican Senate Candidate Terri Lynn Land Comes Out For...
As far as Julie Boonstra being taken advantage of, I don’t think it’s just AFP that’s involved. She owns a home in Dexter with the former chair of the Washtenaw County Republican Party Mark Boonstra. —...
View ArticleKrugman: If you don’t like the mandate, why not support single payer?
Bill Gardner at The Incidental Economist offers a rather decorous, mild reply to the people making [the argument that guaranteed health insurance is an assault on America’s freedom]. I’d put it more...
View ArticleThe mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to...
No one would ever accuse Bernie Sanders of thinking small. The senator from Vermont and Democratic presidential candidate wants to transform one of the world’s most boisterous free-market economies...
View ArticleClinton Campaign Spokesman Brian Fallon Says Healthcare Insurance Premiums...
“Bernie Sanders has called for a roughly 9-percent tax hike on middle-class families just to cover his health-care plan,” said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon, referring to legislation Sanders...
View ArticleThe REALLY ANNOYING Don’t-Wanna-Subsidize-Wealthy-Kids’-College-Tuition...
Hillary Clinton’s performance wasn’t as clean or as crisp as her last one. Among other things, she invoked 9/11 in order to dodge a question about her campaign donors. But she effectively made the case...
View ArticlePre-Debate Contest: Guess which one of Sanders’ past or present policy...
UPDATE: To see the winning Clinton claim, read my my comment to Robert Waldmann’s post above. —- Last week when Chelsea Clinton made he now-infamous statements about Sanders’ single-payer healthcare...
View ArticleWhy Do So Many Wealthy Democrats Think The Only Money That Matters To The Hoi...
Second, single-payer would require a lot of additional tax revenue — and we would be talking about taxes on the middle class, not just the wealthy. It’s true that higher taxes would be offset by a...
View ArticleThe critical point that Paul Waldman highlights, perhaps unwittingly, about...
Back when I was in college, a professor in one of the science courses I took in order to fulfill the Liberal Arts Science requirement made the point—maybe specifically in refutation of Creationists,...
View ArticleFOLLOW-UP TO: The critical point that Paul Waldman highlights, perhaps...
FOLLOW-UP TO: The critical point that Paul Waldman highlights, perhaps unwittingly, about the healthcare debate between Clinton and Sanders I exchanged the following comments with reader Lyle in the...
View ArticleThe little problem with Clinton’s message that Krugman doesn’t mention in his...
[T]there are serious questions about how we’re going to pay for what we want to see our country do. And, I’m the only candidate standing here tonight who has said I will not raise taxes on the middle...
View ArticleSighhhh. [Addendum added.]
Sarah Kliff has a very helpful account of Vermont’s attempt to create a state-level single-payer health care system, and why it failed. It’s a bit like the old joke about the farmer, asked for...
View ArticleClinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement...
Paul Krugman has been incessantly complaining about some Sanders supporters who accuse him and other high-profile Sanders critics, especially academics, of conflict of interest. The Sanders supporters...
View ArticleHarry and Louise Now Support Sanders’ Medicare-for-All Plan. With Good Reason.
In the Comments thread today to my post yesterday titled “Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll announce it just as soon as the Republican...
View ArticleMillennials like socialism — until they get jobs. Or until a pollster tells...
Okay, so the title of a Washington Post op-ed piece today by research fellow and director of polling at the Cato Institute Emily Ekins is “Millennials like socialism — until they get jobs.” She knows...
View ArticleI’ve diagnosed the problem (with Clinton’s campaign; one of the problems,...
I’m getting really good at recognizing instantly the latest vapid or ridiculous soundbite that Clinton has settled on and will be repeating again and again. So I detected her latest one the moment she...
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