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  • Philip Klein: Medicaid-expanding GOP governors have egg on their faces

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    A major new study finding that expanding Medicaid does not improve the physical health of the program's beneficiaries is embarrassing for Republican governors who backed Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid. To recap, last year's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court gave states the option of not...

  • Trim Christie would still have problems winning presidency

    Philip Klein

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    News that Gov. Chris Christie underwent stomach surgery as part of an aggressive weight loss program has reignited speculation about his intentions in 2016. I’ve always thought that his girth would make it impossible for him to run for the presidency, not because Americans wouldn’t vote for...

  • Immigration estimates should include long-term costs

    Philip Klein

    Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

    A new estimate by the Heritage Foundation that the Senate’s bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform proposal would cost $6.3 trillion in the long-run is making waves this morning. (See a summary by the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio and the full report here.) Given how...

  • Philip Klein: Conservatives and the politics of immigration

    Philip Klein

    Published: Fri, May 3, 2013

    Over at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent attempts to decipher a strategy by Sen. Marco Rubio to sell comprehensive immigration reform to conservatives by portraying its passage as a defeat for President Obama. According to Sargent, the central question facing GOP backers is, “how can...

  • Actually, fire insurance would be a good model for health insurance

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

    In attempt to mock conservatives’ reaction to the landmark study finding that Medicaid coverage did not improve physical health outcomes, Paul Krugman snarks that “Fire Insurance is Worthless! After all, there’s no evidence that it prevents fires.” Actually, fire insurance would be a...

  • Schumer says Obamacare partly responsible for premium hikes

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

    Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has acknowledged that President Obama’s health care law is partly responsible for the expected rise in health care premiums next year as the law’s major provisions kick in. A local Rochester, NY NBC affiliate did a story about expected premium hikes by health...

  • Medicaid: The $7 trillion anti-depression program

    Philip Klein

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    As I reported on Wednesday, a landmark new study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that an expansion of Medicaid in Oregon did not improve physical health care outcomes among enrollees. This bombshell finding in a scientifically rigorous study (which included Obamacare’s...

  • Landmark study shatters liberal health care claims

    Philip Klein

    Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

    During the health care debate, liberals argued that government had a moral duty to enact legislation that expanded health insurance among lower-income individuals. This was rooted in the assumption that obtaining health insurance translates into improved health. But a landmark study published in...

  • In defense of Ted Cruz

    Philip Klein

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    Sen. Ted Cruz caused an uproar this week after calling some of his Senate Republican colleagues “squishes” for their votes in favor of stricter gun control measures. Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment notwithstanding, it’s hard to see why this created so much controversy. The media has...


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