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Harry Hopkins’ presumptuous dream

January 17, 2018by David Phillippe Leave a comment

Writing Medicaid Pauperism reminded me of a quote from Harry Hopkins, who significantly administrated some of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, written in 1936: Communities now find themselves in […]

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Medicaid Pauperism

January 10, 2018by David Phillippe 1 Comment

It’s a peculiar feeling, as you age and perhaps gain a brief sense of the place in which you reside through this particular point in human history. Like paddling in […]

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high-risk pools are a joke and this one tweet is proof the GOP knows it

April 5, 2017by David Phillippe 1 Comment

As the Republican party continues it’s internal discussions about how best to renew the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (after they stopped playing political hot potato with the […]

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still catastrophically insufficient

April 3, 2017by David Phillippe Leave a comment

Via Andy Orin on Lifehacker, Facebook is jumping on the ‘earn a bit of side profit by mediating folk’s desperate pleas for money to help cover emergency expenses in the […]

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AHCA is Paul Ryan’s dystopian vision for American health care

March 15, 2017by David Phillippe 1 Comment

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the House plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would, if passed, dis-insure 14 million Americans next year. By 2016, relative to current […]

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Obamacare’s slow demise

February 16, 2017by David Phillippe Leave a comment

To get a good sense of what direction the perpetually around-the-corner Republican replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act will look like, read Jonathan Cohn’s piece on new regulations proposed […]

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On health care coverage and skin in the game

January 22, 2017by David Phillippe Leave a comment

Given how often various Republicans et. al. have stated that their health care reform process won’t deprive people of their current coverage, I imagine one consequence will be a wide-ranging […]

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