The Affordable Care Act: Obamasnare
Print section Print Rubric: The Republican Congress scrambles to find an alternative to Obamacare Print Headline: Obamasnare Print Fly Title: The Affordable Care Act UK...
View ArticleFat tails: Inequality or middle incomes: which matters more?
Print section Print Rubric: America’s government spends a lot on middle earners and little on the poor Print Headline: Fat tails Print Fly Title: Inequality UK Only...
View ArticleHigh risk by name: The pitfalls of replacing Obamacare
Print section Print Rubric: The Republican alternative to a key part of Obamacare could work—but only if it is well funded Print Headline: High risk by name Print Fly...
View ArticleMedicine or poison?: Amending Obamacare could break parts of the...
Print section Print Rubric: The House proposal to amend Obamacare may break parts of America’s health-insurance market Print Headline: Medicine or poison? Print Fly Title: ...
View ArticleObamacare’s squeezed middle: Admit it: Republicans’ proposed Obamacare...
Main image: WHAT is the best part of House Republicans’ proposed reform of Obamacare? There isn’t one, if you believe much of this week’s commentary. The bill will benefit the young and...
View ArticleThe Economist explains: How Republicans want to change Medicaid
Main image: ONE of the crucial ingredients of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, was an expansion of Medicaid, health insurance for the poor. In compliant states, Obamacare...
View ArticleLexington: Donald Trump has not faced a challenge like fixing American health...
Print section Print Rubric: Why fixing American health care is a challenge like no other Donald Trump has faced Print Headline: Deal breaker Print Fly Title: Lexington UK...
View ArticleAmerican exceptionalism: Warfare helps explain why American welfare is different
Print section Print Rubric: Warfare helps explain why American health care is different Print Headline: Wagner vs Wagner Print Fly Title: Exceptionalism UK Only...
View ArticleFree exchange: Economic shocks are more likely to be lethal in America
Print section Print Rubric: Economic shocks are more likely to be lethal in America Print Headline: Deaths of despair Print Fly Title: Free exchange UK Only...
View ArticleNo deal Donald: Republicans pull their health-care bill
Main image: “WE are going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.” With those words the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, admitted that Republicans in...
View ArticleHealth-care reform: Republicans sign up for political pain
Print section Print Rubric: In trying to revive health-care reform, Republicans are causing themselves great political pain Print Headline: Political self-amputation Print Fly...
View ArticleDaily chart: Donald Trump releases his full budget proposal
Main image: ONE way Donald Trump distinguished himself from a crowded Republican primary field was by promising to maintain spending on the federal government’s “entitlement” programmes in...
View ArticleFirst, do some harm: Before Republicans replace Obamacare, the White House is...
Print section Print Rubric: Before Republicans replace Obamacare, the White House is killing it Print Headline: First, do some harm Print Fly Title: Reforming health care...
View ArticleZero sums: The White House’s budget goes from unrealistic to innumerate
Print section Print Rubric: The White House’s budget goes from unrealistic to innumerate Print Headline: Zero sums Print Fly Title: The budget UK Only Article: ...
View ArticleSunlight needed: Rushing health care in America would be reckless and...
Print section Print Rubric: Rushing through sweeping health-care reform without scrutiny would be reckless and undemocratic Print Headline: Sunlight needed Print Fly...
View ArticleThe Senate’s health–care bill: Deep cuts to Medicaid remain the centerpiece...
Main image: WHEN the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act in early May, it was widely thought that the Senate would rewrite it. The House’s bill, among its many...
View ArticleThe Senate’s health bill: Trumpcare, version three
Main image: IS THE Senate’s revised health-care proposal a good bill? And will it pass? Ideally these two questions would be related. But this is sausage-making, so they are not. Let’s take...
View ArticleRe-redistribute: The ideology behind Republicans’ health-care bill
Print section Print Rubric: The ideology behind the Republicans’ health-care bill Print Headline: Re-redistribute Print Fly Title: Republican ideas UK Only...
View ArticleRevive, don’t repeal: Three steps to fix Obamacare
Print section Print Rubric: With health-care reform stalled, Republicans must now make the Affordable Care Act work Print Headline: Revive, don’t repeal Print Fly Title: ...
View ArticleGetting thinner: To pass health-care reform, Republicans may strip it down
Print section Print Rubric: To pass health-care reform, Republicans may strip it down Print Headline: Getting thinner Print Fly Title: Health reform UK Only...
View ArticleThe expanding universal: The fix for American health care can be found in Europe
Print section Print Rubric: The fix for American health care has already been tried somewhere in Europe Print Headline: The expanding universal Print Fly Title: Health...
View ArticleObamacare repeal: Republicans seek to turn health reform over to the states
Print section Print Rubric: Republicans seek to turn health reform over to the states Print Headline: Not dead yet Print Fly Title: Obamacare repeal UK Only...
View ArticleHigh-stakes health care: Chipped away
Print section Print Rubric: Congressional inaction threatens health insurance for poor children Print Headline: Chipped away Print Fly Title: High-stakes health care UK...
View ArticleThe right dose?: A merger between CVS Health and Aetna could be what the...
Print section Print Rubric: A merger between CVS Health and Aetna might help curb the unsustainable rise in American health-care costs Print Headline: The right dose? Print Fly...
View ArticleFor richer, for poorer: American taxes are unusually progressive. Government...
Print section Print Rubric: How America does, and does not, redistribute income Print Headline: For richer, for poorer Print Fly Title: Redistribution UK Only...
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