health care reform
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Universal health care and the medium chill
Is U.S. economic policy currently biased against medium chillers? Or is it biased against killers? Or both? The big problem is health care.
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Free birth control? We're getting closer … [UPDATE: We're there!]
Women will no longer have to make co-pays on birth control, the Obama administration announced on Aug. 1.
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Is environmentalism progressive?
Rather than building up a progressive movement and progressive America, President Barack Obama has demoralized his friends and emboldened his enemies.
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Needed: A 50-state strategy on climate
Low-population states often play host to one-issue activists hired by national campaigns. Local grassroots groups could yield much better results.
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Lessons from Senate climate fail
Here are some lessons learned from the perspective of someone who spent the last few years trying to push a real bill through the real Congress.
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Why did the climate bill fail?
With the climate bill officially dead, there's already a trickle of "who's to blame and what they should have done differently" pieces. Most of these pieces will focus in the wrong places. Were I doing an autopsy on the death of the bill, here are the causal factors I'd single out.
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The health-care act requires calorie labeling at fast-food joints
From Marion Nestle: The impossibly impenetrable health care bill that just passed the House has one little piece of good news buried in it: national calorie labeling. The provision covers chains with 20 outlets throughout the country and is supposed to go into effect in a year or so. It also covers vending machines! […]
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Permission to take a worry break, enjoy the health-care victory
Without getting all pundit-y, can I suggest that it wouldn’t hurt progressives to celebrate more? Others have done a better job than I can explaining what a big deal health-care reform is. I’ll just add: if you need a break from fretting about climate change, or ocean acidification, or agribusiness and school lunches, or the […]
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The inevitable ‘What Does Health Care Reform Mean for Climate Legislation’ post
Health care reform has passed and Obama will sign it into law Tuesday. By the end of the week, most experts forecast at least twelve katrillion thumbsucking “what does health care reform mean for X” pieces. This is one of them. Barack Obama and Joe Biden react to health care voteWhite House First, politics aside, […]