Seniors depend more on federal spending than any other group, but that did not deter a majority of them from voting for candidates who deplored “big government” and “socialized medicine.”
Paul Starr
Paul Starr is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Bancroft Prize in American history, he is the author of eight books, including American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now (Yale University Press, October 2025).
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Back to Deadlock
Come next January, the great American impasse will be back in all its toxic splendor.
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La Próxima Campaña de Reforma de Salud
Los partidarios de la reforma sabían que tenían que luchar para lograr su aprobación. Ahora necesitan llevar a cabo otra lucha para cumplir las promesas de la ley.
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The Preventive Turn in Health-Care Reform
Promoting preventive care and public health carries both promise and risk.
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The Next Health-Reform Campaign
Supporters of reform knew they had to battle to get it passed. Now they need to wage another campaign to implement it.
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A 20-Year Tug-of-War
Neither liberals nor conservatives have been able to claim lasting power. But we have an advantage: real solutions.
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Better Than Tea
Let the Republicans drink the Tea Party’s brew. Progressives shouldn’t wish for the equivalent.
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The Opt-Out Compromise
How to let individuals out of the insurance mandate and improve the odds of health-care reform.
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Last Chance for Health Reform
Neither the progressive nor the anti-abortion House Democrats are making any sense in threatening to kill the Senate bill.
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Underrating Reform
Even with its compromises, health reform is the most ambitious effort in decades to reorganize a big part of life around principles of justice and efficiency.
