Topic: Health Care Reform

How to Use the Oregon Medicaid Study to Your Ideological Advantage

Dr. Ora Botwinick examines Dahlia Arbella, 5, at the Multnomah County's North Portland Health Center Monday, June 18, 2012, in Portland, Ore.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

A once-in-a-generation new health insurance study has health care wonks lining up to declare it an indictment or defense of the future of Obamacare. Who should you believe?

By Max Fisher

Oct 8, 2009

Who Won the Day?

Ezra Klein on the CBO's Report's Hidden Provision

A health care reform advocate says Baucus's won't be as cheap as we think

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By Heather Horn

Oct 8, 2009

Screed

Get Mad At Your Greedy Neighbors

Keli Goff says paying for others' personal choices stinks, so down with AIG and obesity

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By Max Fisher

Oct 8, 2009

The Bad News from the CBO Report

Enthusiasm for the Congressional Budget Office report obscures some pitfalls

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By Max Fisher

Oct 8, 2009

The Good News from the CBO Report

Could this be the moment to secure health care reform?

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By Max Fisher

Oct 7, 2009

What We Should Learn From State-Run Health Care Disasters

Plans in Tennessee, Texas, and Massachusetts offer lessons and warnings

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By Mara Gay

Oct 7, 2009

Is Health Care Reform a Done Deal?

Signs of growing confidence among liberals that an end is in sight

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By John Hudson

Oct 6, 2009

Skeptics Scrutinize Republican Motives for Endorsing Health Care Reform

Why have major conservative figures started speaking out in support of health care reform?

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By Max Fisher

Oct 6, 2009

Obama Eases the Way for a Public Option

Behind the scenes, the president is quietly trying to win over moderate Democrats to push the reform

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By Heather Horn

Oct 5, 2009

Republican Ideas for Health Care Reform

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal pushes a Republican plan for health care reform, but the reviews are mixed

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By Max Fisher

Oct 2, 2009

Harry Reid Promises a Public Option, But Can He Deliver?

The Senate Majority Leader inspires confidence and skepticism

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By Max Fisher

Sep 30, 2009

The Silver Lining in the Public Option's Defeat

Reform-minded liberals find a new hero, and cause for hope

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By Max Fisher

Sep 30, 2009

Liberals Hit Moderate Dems After Public Option Fails

Michael Moore, Howard Dean and others attack Democrats who voted down the public option

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By Heather Horn

Sep 29, 2009

First Reactions to Public Option Failure

Bloggers break down the Senate Finance Committee's votes

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By Max Fisher

Sep 29, 2009

Who Won the Day?

Jonathan Cohn on Life Without a Public Option

A liberal thought leader on health care cites the Dutch model

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By Joshua Green

Sep 29, 2009

Senate Finance Committee "Poised to Explode" as it Takes up Public Option

After a summer of furious political fighting over health care reform, the Senate finally tackles the "public option" today

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By Max Fisher

Sep 24, 2009

Should Liberals Accept Flawed Health Care Reform?

Embracing imperfection or pushing too hard could both mean political catastrophe for Democrats in 2010

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By Heather Horn

Sep 22, 2009

Is Mandatory Health Insurance a Tax?

Obama's Sunday skirmish with George Stephanopoulos sets off a debate over constitutionality, health care policy, and taxes

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By Max Fisher

Sep 18, 2009

Strange Bedfellows

Bill O'Reilly Loves the Public Option?!

He may just want exchanges, but either way he joins progressive Dems, briefly

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By Mara Gay

Sep 18, 2009

What to Do With the Baucus Plan

It's deeply flawed, columnists say, but it's a start. Three takes on what to do with Max Baucus's health care bill.

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By Heather Horn

Sep 17, 2009

The 5 Must-Read Takes of Health Care Bill From Baucus

Amid the sea of reactions, we've identified the biggest opinions shaping debate

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By Max Fisher

Sep 17, 2009

The 5 Best Parts of Health Care Bill From Baucus

Finding the good news in Baucus's proposed health care reform

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By Mara Gay

Sep 17, 2009

Baucus Who? 3 Leaders Unveil Their Own Health Care Plans

They have little in common, other than a distaste for the Baucus bill as it has been written

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By Max Fisher

Sep 17, 2009

The 5 Worst Parts of Health Care Bill From Baucus

About 24 hours later, experts and columnists have digested the 220 page document

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By Benjamin F. Carlson

Sep 16, 2009

Who Won the Day?

Nate Silver on the Baucus Plan

Republicans and Democrats can agree on one thing: the only one who loves the Baucus plan is Baucus

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By Heather Horn and Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Health Care Bill

Max Baucus's 200 pages, dropped this morning, draws criticism, praise and shock

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By Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

Lightning Rod

Hurry Up and Wait on Health Care

Max Baucus contradicts his own calls for patience and bipartisanship

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By Max Fisher

Sep 16, 2009

Can Health Care Reform Survive Without GOP?

Sen. Olympia Snowe backs out, leaving zero Republican support, but Democrats continue to hope

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By Mara Gay

Sep 15, 2009

Good Question!

Is Diversity Killing Health Care Reform?

Michael Lind says it's no coincidence that ethnically homogeneous countries have the most generous health care

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By Heather Horn

Sep 14, 2009

Four Things You Thought You Knew About Health Care

There's nothing new to be said about the health care debate, right? Wrong!

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By Carl Franzen

Sep 11, 2009

Census Figures Strengthen Calls for Reform

Writers from around the country see the new census data as more reason to pass a bill, any bill

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By Mara Gay

Sep 10, 2009

My Ears Rang With the Joy of a Small Child on Christmas Morning

A brief round up of strange reactions to the President's health care speech

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By Benjamin F. Carlson

Sep 10, 2009

Who Won the Day?

John Hinderaker on Obama's Speech

Reacting point by point, he rebuilds the intelligent case for dissent

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By John Hudson

Sep 10, 2009

Good Question!

Can You Blame the Poor for Being Fat?

Many of the country's poor are obese—is it fair to guilt them?

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By Benjamin F. Carlson

Sep 10, 2009

Whom Did Obama Call Out?

Obama descends into the fray to pick a fight with health care foes. How have they responded?

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By Benjamin F. Carlson

Sep 10, 2009

The Comprehensive Guide to Reactions to Obama's Speech

The Atlantic Wire sorted through scores of columns and blog posts to find the sharpest observations and assess the landscape of opinion after this all-important moment

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By Max Fisher

Sep 9, 2009

Health Reform Without G.O.P.: Is It Worth It?

Max Baucus, a crucial Democratic senator, urges his party to sacrifice Republican support as well as the public option

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By Benjamin F. Carlson

Sep 9, 2009

Screed

'Myopic Apparatchiks and Feather-Preening Bourgeois Liberals'

Camille Paglia opens fire on health care, mows down Dems, drugs, Ivy Leaguers

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By Max Fisher

Sep 9, 2009

Who Won the Day?

Steve Coll on the Hidden Reform

Obama may have already secured health care's biggest change for the better

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By Heather Horn

Sep 9, 2009

Good Question!

Why Not Include Illegal Immigrants in Health-Care Plan?

Joe Weisenthal takes a step back to poke an elephant in the room

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By Benjamin F. Carlson

Sep 9, 2009

Do's and Dont's for Obama's Health Care Speech

Columnists pile on with advice on how Obama can nail or fail his bottom-of-the-ninth speech to Congress tonight

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By Max Fisher

Sep 8, 2009

Who Won the Day?

Ezra Klein Dissects BaucusCare

He finds the good and fixes the bad from this liberal bogeyman

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By Mara Gay

Sep 8, 2009

Liberals Bring Heat on Health Care

The day before Obama delivers a make-or-break speech on health care reform, liberals tell the president to go for broke

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By Max Fisher

Sep 8, 2009

Spatwatch

Health Care Bill: Progress or Disaster?

Marcy Wheeler and Ezra Klein throw down on Sen. Baucus's new health care bill

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By Max Fisher

Sep 4, 2009

On Health Care Debate, Stepping Back to Laugh

Ze Frank, usually a jokester, takes a semi-serious look at health care in this video

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By Max Fisher

Sep 4, 2009

The Health Care Reform Conservatives Love

David Goldhill's proposed reform has got conservatives and economists rallying for change, but liberals protest

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By Mara Gay

Sep 3, 2009

The Biggest Moment of His Presidency

First takes on Obama's plan to take back the health care debate with a speech to a joint session of Congress

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By Max Fisher

Sep 2, 2009

Mike Huckabee's Health Care Reform

HuckabeeCare is so crazy it might just work, says one liberal. Another calls him too socialist.

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By Max Fisher

Sep 1, 2009

Starting Over on Health Care Reform

Conservatives are calling for Obama to finally lay out a specific plan

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By Heather Horn

Aug 27, 2009

Michael Steele vs. the Liberals

Steele inarticulately attempts to repair his image after an op-ed, and liberals move in for the kill

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By Max Fisher

Aug 26, 2009

Will Kennedy's Death Affect Health Care Reform?

Should it? Some are pushing for it, others push back.

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