by Henry Schmidt
Some may argue that when you go to a doctor, you can pay out of your own pocket and that you don’t need insurance. This is true. But what happens if you contract a serious disease that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat? What then?
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Mercury News editorial: Speak up if you support health care reformHouse Republicans' vote to repeal health care reform next week will be symbolic. With a Democratic majority in the Senate and a president with a veto at the ready, wholesale repeal will not happen. It's what follows the symbolic vote that could cause harm: gradual attempts to chip away at reform by, for example, refusing to fund provisions.
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Buckle Up for Round 2
by David Brooks
The health care reform law was signed 10 months ago, and what’s striking now is how vulnerable it looks. Several threats have emerged — some of them scarcely discussed before passage — that together or alone could seriously endanger the new system.
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by Greg Sargent
The push suggests again that Dems expect this fight to drag on for months, and even years, and are hoping to use it as an opportunity to once again educate the public about what's actually in the law.
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BREAKING: CBO Paints Grim Picture of Repeal
by Jonathan Cohn
So there you have it: According to one of our most reliable and nonpartisan authorities, repealing the Affordable Care Act would mean higher deficits plus insurance that is less comprehensive, less available, and in many cases more expensive.
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The CATO Institute: Obamacare, An Unacquired Taste
by Michael D. Tanner
"History repeats itself — first as tragedy, then as farce," noted Karl Marx. With the new Republican majority in the House planning to vote next Wednesday on repeal of Obamare, Democrats appear well into farce.
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