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Check your health insurance card Tuesday at noon

by Karoli on March 22, 2010 · 10 comments

That is, if you have one. The President will sign the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka health care reform), finally establishing a level playing field for every American when it comes to access to affordable health care. Finally. Equal access at last. Amid all the rhetorical thunder, it seems to me it comes [...]

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Stop. Breathe. Read.

by Karoli on January 24, 2010 · 8 comments

David Plouffe is back with a big editorial in today’s Washington Post arguing for why Democrats must pass health care reform, and soon. As part of his argument, he enumerates the immediate benefits of passing the bill: If we do pass it, dozens of protections and benefits take effect this year. Parents won’t have to [...]

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Here’s why the Senate bill has to pass AS IS

by Karoli on January 22, 2010 · 11 comments

Simply put: It is the only way to get the consumer protections into place. That’s it. Period. There is no other way. I’ve seen some interesting ideas about pulling out consumer protections and passing those separately. Let’s see how that works: Scenario 1 – Isolate consumer protections in new bill House crafts a bill with [...]

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