| Jul 16, 2014 | Environment / HealthSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised to take action that will counter the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision. Thanks to that ruling, big employers may deny birth control coverage to the female employees whose health insurance they must provide. In...
| Apr 9, 2014 | Environment / HealthTo borrow a cute term William Safire penned for Spiro Agnew, the “nattering nabobs of negativism” carrying on about the evils of the Affordable Care Act aren’t going to roll back the health insurance overhaul they like to deride as...
| Mar 26, 2014 | Environment / HealthSaid Boehner, “What the Hell is this, a joke?” Said Obama, “Oh no, not again with this bloke.” The ACA sign-up deadline’s extended To benefit millions as it was intended. The website snafu caused such delays, “We need the...
| Mar 19, 2014 | Environment / HealthFor me, the fact that Republicans keep using the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – as a political football is a tragedy. Sure, the law has problems, but it is already saving lives and improving the health of millions of Americans. Thankfully, it seems that Republicans...
| Mar 12, 2014 | Environment / HealthThe Republicans give lots of reasons for their opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Only two really matter. One is politics. The other is money. More precisely, big-business money. Like Social Security and Medicare, the expansion of health insurance coverage is...