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Healthcare Hypocrisy Continues (Healthcare Policy, Conservatives and the American Right)

Republicans attack government healthcare while trying to save Medicare.

The Rachel Maddow Show
The Breakdown: How Would Healthcare Reform Affect the Economy? (US Politics, Healthcare Policy, Economy)

How will healthcare reform affect the economy? This week on The Breakdown, Christopher Hayes talks to Ezra Klein to correct the misperceptions.

Christopher Hayes
Former Obama Adviser: Why Is the Administration So Unassertive? (Healthcare Policy, Environment)

Former Obama adviser Marshall Ganz wonder why has it taken so long for Obama to settle on the most direct route to legislative victory on healthcare.

Ari Melber
The World According to Stupak (Healthcare Policy)

By Representative Bart Stupak's logic, the government is "subsidizing abortion" by building roads, developing medicine and providing childcare.

Jessica Arons
CPR for the Public Option (Healthcare Policy)

There's still a chance it can be resuscitated.

Christopher Hayes
Obama to Push Health Plan at Summit (Healthcare Policy, Health)

Obama is billing the summit as a last-ditch attempt to solicit Republican ideas for healthcare reform.

Lindsay Beyerstein
The Benefits of Long-Term Reform (Healthcare Policy)

Hayes discusses his support of health care reform in the wake of its nation-wide unpopularity in the polls.

MSNBC
Litmus Test: The People, or the Insurance Companies? (Healthcare Policy, Economy)

Since 1945, health insurance companies have been allowed to collude to fix prices. Members of Congress will soon vote on whether to reinstate anti-trust provisions for the industry.

Darcy Burner
Obama Stalls for Time With Healthcare Summit (Healthcare Policy)

Obama's healthcare summit is a delay tactic--it's what happens after, when someone steps up to steer the bill, that counts.

Lindsay Beyerstein
Tell 'The Nation': Voices of the Uninsured (Health and Disease, Healthcare Policy)

Uninsured Americans have arguably the highest stake in the outcome of the healthcare debate--so why are they absent from the national conversation over its fate?

Various Contributors

Blogs

Why Obama Is Right About Change, but Wrong About the Outside Game
Ari Melber

Healthcare reform was not the outside game Obama says it was.

September 20, 2012
Exclusive: Paul Ryan Quietly Requested Obamacare Cash
Lee Fang

In a letter to the Obama administration obtained by the The Nation, Ryan asked that a clinic in his district receive a grant made possible by the Affordable Care Act.

September 5, 2012
Mitt Romney's Hypocrisy on Disability
Ben Adler

A new Romney campaign ad would have you believe healthcare reform was bad for the disabled. Actually, it is Romney’s policies that would put them at risk.

August 23, 2012
Greg Kaufmann: Sweeping up After Billionaires, but No Living Wage
Nation in the News

A successful five-week strike still leaves the Houston janitors below $10 an hour, while Pennsylvania eliminates healthcare for scores of children.

August 21, 2012
Interns’ Favorite Pieces of the Week (8/16/12)
StudentNation

Every week, Nation interns try to look beyond the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.

August 16, 2012
Interns' Favorite Pieces of the Week (8/1/12)
StudentNation

Every week, Nation interns try to look beyond the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.

August 2, 2012
Low-Income Older Women Will Be Worst Hit if States Don’t Expand Medicaid
Bryce Covert

This vulnerable group could be left high and dry just when they should be trying to save for retirement.

July 23, 2012
'We Can’t Afford It': The Big Lie About Medicaid Expansion
Richard Kim

Citing deficit woes, at least six Republican governors say they won’t expand Medicaid. But closing tax breaks and loopholes for the wealthy would more than pay for the expansion.

July 20, 2012
If States Opt Out of Medicaid Expansion, Over 4 Million Women Could Remain Uninsured
Bryce Covert

Low-income women were expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Now that’s at risk.

July 17, 2012
Dear Mr. Romney, I Want More Free Stuff From the Government
Jon Wiener

A reason to “go vote for the other guy.”

July 14, 2012
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