Health Care

Healthcare.gov Sucks, but That’s Not the Real Threat to Obamacare

Healthcare.gov Sucks, but That’s Not the Real Threat to Obamacare Healthcare.gov Sucks, but That’s Not the Real Threat to Obamacare

Ideological resistance to the Medicaid expansion—the heart of the healthcare law—is. 

Oct 23, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

The Senate’s Obamacare Tweak Is Unlikely to Damage the Law

The Senate’s Obamacare Tweak Is Unlikely to Damage the Law The Senate’s Obamacare Tweak Is Unlikely to Damage the Law

The Senate’s deal to reopen the government and extend the debt limit reportedly contains a small change to the health law—but it’s not a win for the GOP. 

Oct 16, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

What Democrats Should Demand

What Democrats Should Demand What Democrats Should Demand

If Republicans are playing hardball, Democrats should too.

Oct 16, 2013 / Bryce Covert

This Week in Poverty: What ‘Defunding Obamacare’ Really Means

This Week in Poverty: What ‘Defunding Obamacare’ Really Means This Week in Poverty: What ‘Defunding Obamacare’ Really Means

GOP proposals to defund Obamacare are the equivalent of a death sentence for thousands of Americans.

Oct 11, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann

Like Jon Stewart, Joe Lhota Aids the Tea Party ‘Crazies’ on Obamacare

Like Jon Stewart, Joe Lhota Aids the Tea Party ‘Crazies’ on Obamacare Like Jon Stewart, Joe Lhota Aids the Tea Party ‘Crazies’ on Obamacare

Stewart and Lohota both find the individual mandate so confusing, they're willing to forestall some of the ACA’s most potent policy.

Oct 8, 2013 / Leslie Savan

Racism and Cruelty: What’s Behind the GOP’s Healthcare Agenda?

Racism and Cruelty: What’s Behind the GOP’s Healthcare Agenda? Racism and Cruelty: What’s Behind the GOP’s Healthcare Agenda?

Republicans replay their Southern Strategy in an attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act.

Oct 8, 2013 / Robert Scheer

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eighty Years of Opposition to Universal and Affordable Healthcare

This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eighty Years of Opposition to Universal and Affordable Healthcare This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eighty Years of Opposition to Universal and Affordable Healthcare

Opposition to affordable healthcare has always been backed by untold sums of corporate money and marked by a notably consistent streak of red-baiting rhetoric and doom-saying predi...

Oct 5, 2013 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Shutdown Continues, but Obamacare Is Up and (Mostly) Running

Shutdown Continues, but Obamacare Is Up and (Mostly) Running Shutdown Continues, but Obamacare Is Up and (Mostly) Running

The future of the GOP, not the Affordable Care Act, is what's at stake now in Congress. 

Oct 2, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act

Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act Americans Hate Obamacare, Love Affordable Care Act

Jimmy Kimmel shows they don’t get that O’care=ACA.

Oct 2, 2013 / Leslie Savan

The Hidden Costs of the American Way of Healthcare

The Hidden Costs of the American Way of Healthcare The Hidden Costs of the American Way of Healthcare

Is our employer-based healthcare system hurting our economy and culture by keeping too many creatives and entrepreneurs tied to their jobs?

Oct 2, 2013 / Marie Myung-Ok Lee

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