by Bill Scher | Apr 11, 2014 | Blog, Health, Progressive Vision
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will finish her five-year tenure having implemented the biggest expansion of health insurance in 50 years. What should we learn from her success story? Three key lessons: 1. Don't Panic Yes, HealthCare.gov flopped...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Apr 9, 2014 | Health
To borrow a cute term William Safire penned for Spiro Agnew, the “nattering nabobs of negativism” carrying on about the evils of the Affordable Care Act aren’t going to roll back the health insurance overhaul they like to deride as “Obamacare.” Reality sure isn’t on...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 4, 2014 | Health
Forty-six years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. If he were alive today, Dr. King would be on the march again, demanding that governors stop standing in the way of justice and endangering the lives of the vulnerable by refusing...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 2, 2014 | Conservatism, Health
More than seven million Americans have enrolled in health insurance through Obamacare, meeting the goal set by the Congressional Budget Office. Meanwhile, support for Obamacare has surpassed opposition, with 49 percent supporting, and 48 percent opposing the law in a...
by Digby | Mar 31, 2014 | Health
I had a lot of trepidation about the ACA when it was proposed, mostly because it's a contraption with many moving parts, any one of which, if removed will make the whole thing weak, if not useless. But I supported it because the Medicaid expansions was the biggest...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 25, 2014 | Health
Wendell Potter writes, in a series of posts about the poor state of dental coverage, that millions of Americans — 36 percent, according to a 2013 survey —put off visiting the dentist because of the cost of dental care. Last year, I became one of them. In pain, and in...
