by Richard Eskow | Oct 24, 2013 | Health
Republicans who are trying to exploit the difficulties with Obamacare’s rollout for political gain are, as usual, getting it all wrong. Those problems with “healthcare.gov” don’t prove what conservatives think they prove. They're an indictment of the Right’s visions...
by Bill Scher | Oct 24, 2013 | Health
Over at Salon.com, a debate flared up this week between Joan Walsh and Brian Beutler on how liberal opinion journalists should handle coverage of the Obamacare website's initial rollout. Walsh argued "yes, it’s important for Democrats to acknowledge when government...
by Digby | Oct 23, 2013 | Economy, Health, Progressive Vision
Mike Konczal has written a provocative post that is getting quite a bit of play today and is well worth reading. He posits that the rough Obamacare rollout is a direct consequence of misplaced faith in neo-liberal solutions, which he defines in this instance as a...
by Bill Scher | Oct 23, 2013 | Health, Retirement Security
Over at The Week I offered up 5 Other Botched Rollouts of Government Programs" in order to bring a little historical perspective to the current pile-on over the HealthCare.gov bugs. The common thread of all the programs I covered is: stuff gets fixed, people move on....
by Terrance Heath | Oct 23, 2013 | Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
Republicans are still targeting the Affordable Care Act, but their answer to the problems health care reform is already solving for many Americans hasn’t changed much from that infamous audience response at the September 2011 GOP presidential debate....
by Digby | Oct 22, 2013 | Health, Retirement Security, This Is The GOP
Ruth Marcus fills us in on what constitutes "reasonable" now that the Republicans have proven themselves asses with their government shutdown. And, you guessed it, it's time for Democrats to compromise and agree to cut "entitlements" in exchange for sequestration...
