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  • Obamacare’s tariff on hiring American workers still plagues immigration bill

    By Philip Klein | 06/18/13 09:40 AM

    An unnamed staffer for Sen. Marco Rubio has caused the latest stir over the immigration bill by telling the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza that, “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it…There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star...

  • Obamacare will expand insurance, but what will it do to access?

    By Philip Klein | 06/17/13 08:15 AM

    Health insurance and health care access are two separate concepts. This distinction may seem banal, but it’s often obscured in debates over health care policy. Over the next decade, President Obama’s health care law is projected to expand health insurance to 30 million Americans, but...

  • Iran’s dangerous ‘moderate’

    By Philip Klein | 06/17/13 12:30 AM

    If you followed the news over the weekend, you would have come away with the impression that the Islamic Republic of Iran just elected a reform-minded moderate leader as president. “Iran: Moderate candidate wins presidential vote,” read USA Today’s headline. The New York Times reported,...

  • 7 of 9 key Syrian rebel fighter groups are Islamist

    By Philip Klein | 06/14/13 01:00 PM

    If you’re like me, you’ve gotten increasingly frustrated with the constant mention of “the rebels” in reports about Syria, without much context about who they are. It reminds me of some 1980s action movie in which generic “rebels” serve as some sort of MacGuffin for the hero to blow...

  • Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer rams through Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion

    By Philip Klein | 06/13/13 05:00 PM

    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, working with Democrats against members of her own party, rammed through a vast expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare through the state legislature, putting federal taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars in health care spending. Despite claiming to...

  • Important context in the Obamacare 'rate shock' debate

    By Philip Klein | 06/13/13 12:25 PM

    My Thursday column represents my latest offering in the ongoing debate over the “rate shock” expected next year as President Obama’s health care law goes into effect. But it’s important to keep in mind that comparisons between current insurance rates and rates anticipated under Obamacare...

  • Philip Klein: Obamacare's rate shock hits the Buckeye state

    By Philip Klein | 06/12/13 04:35 PM

    Ohio Department of Insurance officials announced last week that average premiums in the Buckeye state would soar 88 percent once President Obama's health care law kicks in. The news added fuel to an already raging debate over Obamacare's effect on insurance costs. Ohio's insurance department...

  • CBO: Debt limit deadline won’t hit until Oct. or Nov.

    By Philip Klein | 06/11/13 04:10 PM

    Due to a rosier deficit outlook, the Congressional Budget Office now projects that Congress has until October or November to reach an agreement to raise the debt limit. Currently, the debt limit stands at $16.7 trillion. Starting on May 17, the Treasury Department began using “extraordinary...

  • Immigration and Obamacare’s employer mandate

    By Philip Klein | 06/11/13 01:05 PM

    With the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill set for a procedural vote later Tuesday, lawmakers still have not resolved a thorny problem under which the bill would effectively encourage employers to hire newly legalized immigrants over American citizens as a way of avoiding Obamacare’s...

  • Poll: Partisan views of surveillance differ dramatically under Bush & Obama

    By Philip Klein | 06/10/13 05:25 PM

    Republicans were much more likely to find controversial NSA surveillance operations acceptable under President Bush than under President Obama, according to a Pew survey. For Democrats, the opposite is true. A new survey by Pew finds that Americans, by 56 percent to 41 percent, describe it as...


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