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  • Trustees say long-run Medicare, Social Security deficit is $66 trillion

    By Philip Klein | 05/31/13 03:10 PM

    Social Security and Medicare – the two largest federal programs – are on track to generate $66 trillion in deficits over time, according to the latest analysis from the programs’ trustees. Taken together, the reports underscore the fact that whatever modest improvement there has been in...

  • Obamacare’s challenge: Luring young Americans

    By Philip Klein | 05/30/13 05:50 PM

    In my column Thursday, I look at how President Obama’s health care law will affect the hipster generation. Starting next year, all Americans will be forced to choose between spending thousands of dollars per year on health insurance they may not want or  paying a penalty. I didn’t...

  • Philip Klein: The irony behind Obamacare's hipster tax

    By Philip Klein | 05/29/13 02:35 PM

    Earlier this month, Public Policy Polling released a survey on Americans' attitudes toward hipsters -- the subculture of young, urban-creative types who characteristically don jeans, faded T-shirts and thick black-rimmed glasses, worship iPhones, and sip artisan coffee. According to the...

  • Obamacare poll is even worse than it looks

    By Philip Klein | 05/24/13 10:00 AM

    Guy Benson points to a new Fox poll with findings that he describes as “brutal” for President Obama’s health care law. Specifically, Benson highlights this question: 22. Do you think it would be better to leave the new health care law in place, or would it be better to go back to the...

  • Don’t be fooled by California’s premium claims

    By Philip Klein | 05/23/13 03:45 PM

    As I wrote earlier, California is going to be a major test case for the implementation of President Obama’s health care law. Though major insurers have decided to opt out of the state’s subsidized insurance exchange, the authority tasked with managing the program is now touting number of...

  • Obamacare’s California test

    By Philip Klein | 05/23/13 12:05 PM

    If you want to know how the implementation of President Obama’s health care law will go next year, California is a good place to watch. Anticipating problems with the national implementation of the law, some liberals have preemptively tried to do pin the blame on recalcitrant Republican...

  • Oklahoma’s Obamacare challenge set for June 20 hearing

    By Philip Klein | 05/22/13 05:15 PM

    A federal judge has set a June 20 hearing date for a lawsuit filed by the state of Oklahoma challenging an IRS ruling related to President Obama’s health care law. As I described the suit in March: Under the law, if states choose not to set up their own insurance exchanges, then the...

  • Philip Klein: Obama era scandals discredit big government

    By Philip Klein | 05/22/13 02:45 PM

    It's an open question whether President Obama's approval rating will remain unaffected by the scandals currently engulfing his administration. But no matter how Obama himself makes out, the scandals are setbacks for the central goal of his presidency -- to restore Americans' faith in the ability...

  • Five reasons why focus on scandals is unlikely to backfire on GOP as in 1998

    By Philip Klein | 05/21/13 06:20 PM

    As multiple scandals have simultaneously engulfed the Obama administration, a number of political observers have cautioned Republicans against overreaching. Liberal blogger Greg Sargent writes over at the Washington Post that, “the current scandal-mania gripping the GOP risks bringing about a...

  • Kudos to Tom Coburn

    By Philip Klein | 05/21/13 11:20 AM

    As residents of his home state recover from the devastating tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn deserves credit for sticking with his position that all emergency aid spending should be offset. “He’s always had the same position since the Oklahoma City bombing,” Coburn...


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