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Tag: Obamacare

Health · Politics

In denying health care for the vulnerable, why are we smiling?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 23, 2017, 7:08 AM Mar 23, 2017
128

Maybe cutting health care for the mentally ill, the elderly, and the disabled is simply the price of freedom, a price someone else will bear so that we may enjoy its benefits. Read more →

Health · Politics

Kentucky town reveals the lack of logic in health insurance debate

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 13, 2016, 8:45 AM Dec 13, 2016
80

You’ll have to work hard to find any significant logic in the interviews Vox’s Sarah Kliff did with residents in Kentucky, who apparently voted for Donald Trump because they didn’t think he and the Republicans would really take away their health insurance coverage.

He was, you may recall, the candidate promising to repeal Obamacare. Read more →

Health · Politics

Even Bill Murray can’t save health care

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 12, 2016, 10:27 AM Dec 12, 2016
20

The White House’s video touting the website where people can shop for health insurance is a little like John Belushi’s last attempt to rally his beaten frat brothers in Animal House.

But as a “bit”, it’s got legs. Read more →

Politics

Poll: Four years later, many people still ignorant about health care law

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 26, 2014, 11:48 AM Mar 26, 2014
16

The survey, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, finds found that only 39 percent of uninsured people 18-64 know that Monday is the deadline to sign up for individual health insurance this year or risk a penalty. Read more →

‘Obamacare’ or ‘Affordable Care Act’?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 17, 2013, 3:23 PM Sep 17, 2013
6

What’s in a name? Everything when it comes to polling about the health care law, officially known as the Affordable Care Act.
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