Posts Tagged ‘health-coverage’

Beyond Americans Elect’s flop: The case (still) for a bolder center

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

The False Equivalency Police are dancing on Americans Elect’s grave, claiming the group’s failure to attract viable independent candidates proves the entire enterprise was misbegotten. What’s more, these critics add, Americans Elect’s flop shows that the whole thing was always a sideshow pushed by centrist pundits whose professional identity is wrapped up in the phony notion that Democrats and Republicans are equally to blame for our current predicament. Read full article > >

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Individual stories are weapon of choice in fight over health-care law

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

The call from the White House came late in the week. Rep. Paul Ryan was vowing to slash Medicaid in his 2012 budget proposal, the administration strategists explained, and they wanted to have a powerful response ready, complete with poignant stories of Americans who might lose their health coverage under the Republican plan.

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Individual stories are weapon of choice in fight over health-care law