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John Goodman’s Commentaries
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Should Everyone Be Able To Join Medicaid? Why Not?
From the earliest days of Obamacare, a great many Democrats and others on the left have wanted a “public option.”
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How Republicans Think About Health Care: Three Parallel Universes
Here is the one public policy question I am asked more than all others put together: What’s wrong with the Republicans? Today I will give the answer.
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Individual Insurance Buyers Were Better Off Without Obamacare
Obamacare’s destruction of the individual health insurance market has done enormous damage to the lives and finances of millions of people who purchase their own insurance.
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A New Approach To High Deductibles
High deductible health insurance is an irritation for young, healthy families with modest incomes. In fact, health insurance with, say, a $10,000 deductible is almost like not having health insurance at all.
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To Replace Obamacare, Don’t Overlook The Role Of The States
Obamacare envisioned a major role for the state governments, often trying to force them to do what they didn’t want to do and harming their citizens in the process.
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Does Lack Of Health Insurance Kill?
The Republican health plan will kill people,” says Bernie Sanders. “The Republican Party is the party of death,” says the headline at Political dig.
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High Risk Pools Worked Just Fine Before Obamacare
The latest Republican plans for replacing Obamacare are focused on financially separating patients with high health care costs from all the rest.
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Why Republicans Can’t Replace Obamacare
It’s a flawed program. Everybody knows it. Premiums are too high. Deductibles are too high. Doctor and hospital networks are too narrow.
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Getting The Ball Across The Finish Line
Why can’t Republicans be more like Democrats?
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Why Republicans Don’t Agree On How To Replace Obamacare
Many conversations on the right involve people with one priority arguing with people with another priority. The result: folks often talk past each other because they are not talking about the same subject.