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I'm not sure whether it was in response to my earlier item or not, but Andrew Sprung tweets : So constructive to have all hands in a m...

Kevin Drum notes that everyone is blaming Obamacare for things that would happen anyway, and that the incentive structure calls for this to...

Same question, plus a bit more. What's the general consensus of neutral experts going to be by, oh, the end of March on how the ACA is w...

What's the general consensus of neutral experts going to be by, oh, the end of March on how the ACA is working? Series of disasters? Sur...

Right to it: 1. Ross Douthat mentioned this one today : as far as we know, it turns out that employers are not dumping their employees on ...

Jonathan Chait : The problem here is that their definition of who would “benefit” is exceedingly narrow. You “benefit,” by his way of thin...

The "Millenials" poll out earlier this week showing (among other things) younger people unenthusiastic about the ACA has sparked ...

I made the point yesterday that what we're starting to see is the re-emergence of health care as a normal political issue , along with t...

Happy Birthday to Jerome Williams , 32. I was a big fan, and I'm really glad he got to have a career. Belongs on some sort of team with ...

To Scott Lemieux for (once again) shooting down liberal fantasies that the only thing preventing Congress from passing single-payer health ...

Happy Birthday to Damon Berryhill , 50. I mentioned Jamie Moyer recently. Moyer is a big deal for my larger cohort; Berryhill was a big deal...

Three topics I'd love to know more about: 1. How many people know that Healthcare.gov is Obamacare? Especially the people who actually...

A few bullet points on health care reform at the start of December... *The brutal truth of "repeal" is that whatever the politic...

Happy Birthday to Lucy Liu , 45. The hardest thing about getting Holmes right has to be the precise gradation of just how smart he is. Too s...

I tweeted about this last night, but why not make a post out of it: I've been stuck at the same place at Healthcare.gov since mid or lat...

Not much up on a Thanksgiving week. Plus with travel and all I'm sure I missed plenty. I'm sort of tempted to go with "blue sli...

My TAP column this week argues that Republicans could have tried out some of the ideas that conservatives have been pushing if only they ha...

Happy Birthday to Ming-Na Wen , 50. Good stuff: 1. Sean Trende is right about ACA and the future of liberalism . 2. Adam Serwer on clo...

Oy, Kraushaar. Oy, Galston. Oy, half the damn press corps. It's ugly out there, folks. The two that set me off in particular today are...

When, if ever, do you think a significant number of (elected) Democrats will turn against the ACA? Between now and 2014? After the 2014 elec...