Obamacare: Behind-the-scenes benefits you’ve never heard of
A funny thing happened on the way to Obamacare: It started working, as intended–but in behind-the-scenes ways that most people haven’t heard about. Drowned out by Republican intransigence, hatred for...
View ArticleMore Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] deception, courtesy of Fox News
When AlterNet reporter Eric Stern saw Sean Hannity’s report on Obamacare horror stories, he decided to check it out. Hannity presented three married couples who claimed to have been harmed by the new...
View ArticleObamacare shopping made easy: Click here
Want to know how affordable your health insurance might be under the Affordable Care Act, without actually having to sign up for a policy? You can do that. First, go to healthcare.gov to window shop...
View ArticleRepublicans will punt on economic recovery
The first significant economic figure that came out in the wake of the government shutdown and near collision with the debt limit was the September, 2013 unemployment figures. The economy added...
View ArticleACA [Obamacare]: Doing well–and doing good–in states that expanded Medicaid
At the same time that private-insurance enrollment via healthcare.gov is experiencing technical difficulties, the other side of the Affordable Care Act—the side that makes it possible for more people...
View ArticleProgressive Blog Digest: “The fix is in”
This daily blog is composed of clips and links from other progressive blog and news sites, accompanied by my own observations. It documents the failure and decline of the Republican party and the...
View ArticleThe Obamacare numbers game: Progressive Blog Digest
How successful or unsuccessful is Obamacare signup so far? Let us count the ways. Today’s roundup features the differing ways that this news is being reported and spun by progressive sources: Sloppy,...
View ArticleDear Senator Warren, we need you to be president
The title of Noam Scheiber’s November cover story in the New Republic is: “Hillary’s Nightmare: A Democratic Party That Realizes Its Soul Lies with Elizabeth Warren.” The Democratic Party lost its soul...
View ArticleSatire: Finding truth in a land of lies
Would you like to visit a far away place called the Land of Truth? If the answer is yes, you may discover it’s not easy to find. In truth, it’s a place shrouded in mystery—so distant and unfamiliar...
View ArticleDems: Stop being “disappointed” and defensive
This is Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s response to Republican state legislators who tried to trap him into a public embarrassment regarding Medicaid expansion. …That is why I was disappointed to learn...
View ArticleObamacare has a second chance to get it right: Progressive Blog Digest
A roundup of what progressive blogs are saying about today’s issues: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/30/obama-health-care-reform_n_4361679.html More:...
View ArticleSouthern ministers lose their Christianity when it comes to Obamacare
I’m always interested in what the mainstream press has to say. If there’s anything that progressives and conservatives can agree on, it’s that the mainstream media is not fair. I recently saw a post on...
View ArticleObama talks about inequality: Progressive Blog Digest
The best speech Obama has given on the economy, plus other items posted on progressive blogs today....
View ArticleFinding a voice for single-payer healthcare in an unlikely place–CNN
I must confess; I’m a semi-secret fan of the mainstream press. This is not because I admire its approach to the news. Rather, I think that the mainstream accepts the conservative mantra that all is...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act: a taxpayer subsidy for the health insurance industry
Although many of my friends have praised the Affordable Care Act and Obama for working to get it passed, I have a different view. When, to appease the health insurance industry, Obama bargained away...
View ArticleA Republican Congresswoman’s district survey, annotated by a “Democrat”...
My Congressional representative wants my input for her annual district survey. I just received it in the mail, and I’m glad she asked. But as I started to fill in the checkboxes, I realized that “yes,”...
View ArticleMy Obamacare insurance will cost $1.98 a month. You have a problem with that?
At the risk of offending my readership, I have a great deal of difficulty understanding the almost rabid opposition some people have to the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. When I...
View ArticleNew nullification twist in the war on Obamacare: MO edition
My very own Missouri State Senator, Republican John Lamping, has introduced a bill into the 2014 Missouri legislature that would, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “take away insurance...
View ArticleCutting cable and MSNBC along with it
I’m not alone in being burned out on MSNBC. The complaints vary from “there’s too much opinion and not enough news,” to “I’m tired of the shrill, manic delivery of MSNBC hosts like Rachel Maddow,...
View ArticleThe worst health insurance companies in America
Until we have single-payer, Medicare for All healthcare in America, insurance companies will continue to screw their customers in as many ways as possible. For now, though, the Affordable Care Act, aka...
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