"The shorthand explanation for what’s going on here is that everybody — the insurance companies, members of Congress, and Obama — is bullshitting." -- Jonathan Chait on the "Democratic freak-out" and the consequent plan by President Obama to adjust one of the main provisions of ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

Juan Cole dismisses the idea that Romney has effectively killed people by closing down their companies (and relieving them of their health care benefits), but lists ways in which his policies would literally result in more deaths: Now, all presidents get people killed. They fight ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

With a huge amount of disinformation about President Obama's healthcare plan swirling around the country, it is no wonder Americans are unsure about 'Obamacare' and what it means for them.  As Bob Cesca wrote in a column earlier this week, even Republicans love Obamacare, they ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: Yesterday, I went on Abby Martin's new show on the RT network to talk about the failure of austerity economics in Europe, and why the US must not follow the same route. Check it out below: I discuss Paul Ryan's plan for the economy in the segment, and I urge ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The US supreme court confronted what one justice characterised as a choice between a "wrecking operation" and a "salvage job" as it considered the future of Barack Obama's signature healthcare reforms if a key component is found to be unconstitutional. In a third and final day ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The White House today released a new report highlighting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. The report discusses how the Affordable Care Act has improved the health care system for millions of Americans and includes stories of Americans who have been helped by the law. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

By Cora Currier (ProPublica): A class-action lawsuit in Florida that moved forward this week highlights a little-appreciated aspect of the housing market — the cozy relationship between banks and insurance companies that often results in overpriced home insurance for already ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

It’s not often that you hear the leader of a Fortune 100 company publicly acknowledge the imminent demise of his venerable, profitable business model. Yet, speaking at the HIMSS12 Conference in Las Vegas, Aetna CEO, Chairman and President Mark Bertolini, said a reckoning for ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

James Kwak of the BaselineScenario does an interesting analysis of his quest to purchase long term care insurance on the private market, and concludes the only way to prevent its exorbitant costs and inability to comprehensively cover the elderly is to have the federal ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Image via Wikipedia Paul Krugman slams Joe Lieberman's proposals for Medicare eligibility: Joe Lieberman is proposing that we raise the Medicare eligibility age. That’s a truly cruel idea; as it happens, I know several people who are hanging on, postponing needed medical ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018