Expirations around Medicaid and food stamps reinforce how Democrats failed to live up to professed ambitions on the welfare state.
Affordable Care Act
Posted inPolitics
Why Progressive Groups Struggled With the Biden Agenda
The way Build Back Better unfolded made it an insider’s game, wasting serious effort and hundreds of millions of dollars from outside organizations.
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How Policy Got Done in 2022
To understand the Democrats’ big climate and health care bill, you must go back decades.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Hospitals Undermine Reproductive Rights
Fears of controversy and squeamishness about the procedure lead many hospitals in blue states to ban abortions. Biden has the power to change this.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How the Texas Legislature Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ACA Marketplace
It’s all about pretending a boatload of federal cash helps the free market.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Corporate Past of Jeffrey Zients
The administration’s highest-ranking COVID official built his wealth through billing practices that have been alleged as fraud, triggering hundreds of millions in fines.
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Democrats Creating Their Own October Surprise
Imminent congressional inaction on Affordable Care Act subsidies will doom 14 million people, the party’s midterm chances, and health care reform for a decade.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Dark History of Medicare Privatization
Medicare Advantage was supposed to be a money-saver. It’s now become a costly, unaccountable cash cow for private insurance companies that is swallowing traditional Medicare.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Dooming Blue States to Health Care Limbo
The Build Back Better Act will create enough uncertainty in health care to make it impossible for states to improve their systems.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Democrats, Be Careful With the Medicaid Expansion
The Medicaid expansion provisions of the reconciliation bill risk being overturned by the Supreme Court.