Conservatives had the chance to test their favorite health-care ideas in state-run exchanges. They decided bullying Obama was a better use of their time than ideological consistency instead.
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Obamacare Panic to Enter Even Stupider New Phase
No, Democrats are not abandoning it en masse, and no, it isn’t going to be repealed.
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20-Week Abortion Bans: Coming to a City Near You?
On Tuesday, Albuquerque residents will vote on the first local ban on abortion after 20 weeks.
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Memo to Democratic Chicken Littles: The Sky Is Not Falling
Yes, this is a politically difficult moment for President Obama. But everyone needs to chill out.
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Judging Obama’s ACA Fix
It’s too bad we got to this point, but it seems designed to minimize the damage.
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A Song of Support for the ACA from the Mississippi Delta
“We care about each other and we need a healthy a future. We know the ACA can help us get there.” In a laundromat, on the bleachers of a football field, and in a church, a group of young people dance, sing, and tell stories of friends and family in Shelby, Mississippi who need access […]
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Obamacare’s Critical Moment
The controversy over those who want to keep their junk insurance plans has given Republicans their best chance yet to sabotage the law. Democrats would be crazy to help them.
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Changing Primary Care’s Colors
There’s a cheap, easy solution to the shortage of doctors in the field—nurse practitioners. But two-thirds of the states are standing in the way.
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Shocker: Health-Exchange Websites Can Be Done Right
An outside site tries to do what Healthcare.gov can’t, but at least one state has gotten it right.
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The Supply-Side Economics of Abortion
Hundreds of restrictions couldn’t reduce women’s demand for the procedure—so now anti-choice laws are cutting them off at the source.
