Jon Cohn answers John Goodman’s column: Comparing Medicaid cutbacks to private insurer’s dropping costly patients “is grossly misleading,” Cohn writes.
Jon Cohn argues that news stories about businesses dropping insurance and insurers limiting doctor choice isn’t bad: they highlight health reform’s benefits.
Add it all up and the budget deficit actually gets a little smaller. The emphasis is on “little,” since the net reduction is actually pretty small.
“Will most people’s health insurance still change? Absolutely. But change was coming no matter what. With reform, it’s likely to be change for the better,” writes Jon Cohn.
The question isn’t so much whether the waste exists. The question, rather, is whether reform can pinpoint and excise that waste — whether it can cut out the bad medical care without removing the good.
A lot of people laughed when Sue Lowden, the Nevada Republican running for the U.S. Senate, suggested last month that people start paying for their medical care with chickens. I didn’t.
Michigan’s attorney general wants the new health reform law overturned. Jon Cohn reviews what the state’s residents will lose should their attorney general succeed.
There are two ways for societies to decide how to allocate resources: collectively, through government, or individually, through the market.
The evolution of Blue Cross is a case study in the need for health care reform.
The key is finding a fix that helps both doctors and the patients, rather than one at the expense of the other.
A bill could have been passed, if Democrats tried to reach out to Republicans
The Senate bill will make people’s lives significantly better.
What’s important isn’t what the government spends but what individuals and families must spend.
When conservatives scream about socialized medicine and death panels, tune them out. But lately they’ve been making an argument you should hear.
Insurance exchanges are regulated marketplaces, where you get to choose from among plans.
At the end of the day, the challenge remains: Coming up with money to pay for health reform.
Had Obama spent more time reminding voters that health reform would provide them with security they now lack he probably would have been better off, writes columnist Jonathan Cohn.
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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