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Guest AuthorMay 4, 2014

There are 2,700 pages of the Affordable Care Act that can be condensed into one word:   Obamacare. To insure the uninsured, we first make some of the insured uninsured and then make them pay more to be insured again. In some cases, people have had to buy a policy they can’t afford despite the subsidies […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 4, 2014

If there’s one rule that really matters in politics, it’s this: Don’t let best be the enemy of good. Otherwise, both are likely to lose. For people who favor universal health insurance — as I do — Obamacare was a hard swallow. It falls far short of covering everybody. It’s too complex, guaranteeing that there […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 8, 2014

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of The United States, must be spinning in his grave and cursing up a storm this week. You see, to mark the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s landmark ‘War On Poverty’, congressional conservatives like Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are taking turns trying to discredit it. First came […]

Marc YachtJanuary 1, 2014

Opponents of Obamacare (The Affordable Health Care for America Act, 2010) have relentlessly attacked the legislation, including dozens of attempts to kill the bill or thwart funding. In spite of such efforts, 2.1 million Americans who could not afford coverage in the past have signed up thus far. Opponents of the “New Deal” used […]

Darryl PaulsonOctober 28, 2013

Second of two parts. Almost everyone, except the most hardened progressive ideologues, believes that the Obamacare rollout is a mess. After three years and $300 million spent on preparing the website, few people have been able to log on, let alone register for health care. The exact number who have successfully signed up for a […]

Guest AuthorOctober 8, 2013

“Throw my brain in a hurricane, and the blind can have my eyes, the deaf can take both of my ears, if they don’t mind the size.” — John Prine in “Please Don’t Bury Me” Nearly 90 percent of Americans say they would refuse aggressive medical treatment if it left them in an incompetent condition, […]

Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2013

The central tenet of the Affordable Care Act — health insurance for almost all — kicked in at the same instant that the government shutdown began last week. It was one of those conjunctions of American history that bleed with irony, like the waning days of the Civil War when Jefferson Davis drafted slaves to […]

Guest AuthorOctober 7, 2013

Being a white guy of a certain age, I guess I’m supposed to be angry. The media are full of white grandpas who seem constantly angry about something or other. Somehow, I don’t feel the rage. Maybe I’m out of step with my peers, but I’m happy. Maybe it’s because I am a grandpa. There’s […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 16, 2013

When I first moved to Florida in 2007, I took to writing my representative in Congress when I had a concern, just as I did in Ohio. I may not have agreed with Congressman Steve Chabot (R) any more than 20 percent of the time, but he always responded with an educated answer that actually […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 12, 2013

Policy textbooks say that when considering alternatives, all equal, invest in the one that will have the greatest reach. But the political process has an appetite for eating good ideas, leaving just piecemeal chunks on the bone. No shock there, particularly for contentious issues. But what’s more confounding is when policies of uncontested merit fall […]

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John Grant: Obamacare is ineffective and needs to be repealed

Martin Dyckman: Compromise appears possible on immigration reform

Daniel Tilson: The GOP’s impoverished anti-poverty platform

Marc Yacht: Obamacare is alive and recovering

Darryl Paulson: The problem with Obamacare: the substance

Karen Cyphers: Talking about death saves heartache, money

Pierre Tristam: The Medicare generation’s immoral war on Obamacare

Mark O’Brien: This old white guy is happy

Gary Stein: Obamacare opponents need to get their talking points straight

Karen Cyphers: What do Steve Southerland’s daughter’s friends have to do with Alzheimer’s funding?