For Competition Before They Were Against It
Mar 13, 2009 Republicans insist that "competition solves health care," and tell us that government programs are worse than private health insurance So, don't they welcome a private-versus-public competition, believing that the former will trump the latter? Well uh no .A Bad Fix Would Be No Fix
Mar 13, 2009 Advice to solve the financial crisis before even thinking about health care, energy or education is either misguided or disingenuous. Fortunately, Obama seems to be ignoring all the chatter.The ‘Comfy Retirement’ Dream Has Exploded
Mar 12, 2009 No Wall Street rally can obscure the scary historical prospect that most Americans now working can expect to have less income security in retirement than their parents had.Medicare (Dis-)Advantage
Mar 3, 2009 Obama's bid to reduce the taxpayer-funded slush fund that flows to the managed-care insurance industry through Medicare is an emphatic, if overdue, effort to turn Washington around.‘Entitlements’ Take a Bum Rap
Feb 24, 2009 It is time to wipe the term entitlement reform, a monument to the dark art of disinformation, out of the political dictionary. There is no crisis in Social Security, or even in Medicare and Medicaid.
Obama Ponders the Third Rail
Jan 8, 2009 With news of a $1.2 trillion federal budget deficit and continually rising unemployment numbers, President-elect Barack Obama is facing an economy that has the constitution of a sickly cat. A remedy for what ails it may be coming in a restructuring of Medicare and Social Security, which Obama said will be central to efforts in how he will curb spending.
Resuscitating Health Care Reform
Dec 9, 2008 With unemployment soaring, the need grows daily for guaranteed health care. But that may not happen in the coming year because of the desperate need to revive the economy and put people to work.
FactCheck Presents the Biggest Whoppers of Campaign ’08
Nov 4, 2008 Time to relive the magic that was the 2008 presidential campaign -- one big, outrageous prevarication at a time. FactCheck.org delivers the "Whoppers of 2008," courtesy of both Team McCain and Obama HQ.Universal Health Care Makes More Sense Than Ever
Aug 28, 2008 It is worth pausing during these orchestrated partisan celebrations to look afresh at entitlements. There is no more recent evidence of their enduring value than the latest report from the Census Bureau on the number of Americans who are doing without health insurance.
Prescription for a Democratic Win
Aug 26, 2008 As Barack Obama moves into the Democratic National Convention, he should speak out more clearly and forcefully on an issue that clearly distinguishes him from his do-nothing opponent -- national health insurance.
