Twelve years ago, before the MAGA movement emerged on the right and the streets erupted in progressive protest from the left, we noticed something troubling in Congress: Our colleagues and constituents were getting angrier.
We saw it in the flushed faces at our town halls. We heard it in expletive-laden phone calls opposing the Affordable Care Act. We felt its toll in the increasing turnover of our burnt-out, battle-fatigued campaign workers. Most of all, we sensed it in the c...
Month: July 2024
Misleading ads part of schemes to gin up unauthorized ACA sign-ups, lawsuit alleges
Online ads touted free money for groceries to help lure people to call centers where some were enrolled in health insurance or unknowingly switched from their plans, a new lawsuit alleges.
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JD Vance’s views on health care: What to know
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who was tapped as former President Trump's running mate Monday, has been in the Senate for less than two years but has staked out health care positions that both buck his party and toe the GOP line.
Vance is a Yale-educated venture capitalist, but rode the wave of Trump-era populism to a Senate seat. Like most Republicans, he is strongly anti-abortion, opposes gender-affirming care and wants to exclude "Dreamer" immigrants from federal health programs. ...
Bet on Nancy Pelosi to show Joe Biden the door
Nearly 50 years ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. Now, another presidency is in crisis.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has signaled to her colleagues in Washington and beyond that doing nothing about President Joe Biden’s obvious mental acuity decline is not an acceptable course of action. The irony of this situation is that Pelosi is nearly three years older than Biden.
Pelosi watched as Biden ran for political cover to t...
Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity is more limited than it appears
The Supreme Court’s new presidential immunity rule, announced in Trump v. United States, seems on its face to cut against the grain of the court’s recent jurisprudence.
This court has deliberately curtailed executive power, has shown a strong preference to decide only questions before it and no more, and has strong institutionalist and textualist leanings. A new, broad presidential immunity rule, which is how many commentators understand its ruling in the Trump case, seems in...
To win, Biden and Democrats must go all-in against Trumpism
As President Biden fights to stay in the race for a second term, his message needs to change. He should not just run to keep Donald Trump out of the White House — he should run to purge Trumpism from Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Biden should push all his chips to the center of the table and prove his mettle by leading a counterrevolution against the MAGA horde.
As we all know by now, most voters are unhappy with the federal government and democrac...
The real reason drug costs are so high in America
Earlier this month, President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) published an oped about “the outrageous prices that the pharmaceutical industry charges the American people for prescription drugs.” It is the latest step in Sanders's ongoing campaign about drug prices.
In June, Sanders, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, announced that Lars Jorgensen, chief executive officer of Novo Nordisk, one of the world’s largest pharmaceu...
The real reason drug costs are so high in America
Earlier this month, President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) published an oped about “the outrageous prices that the pharmaceutical industry charges the American people for prescription drugs.” It is the latest step in Sanders's ongoing campaign about drug prices.
In June, Sanders, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, announced that Lars Jorgensen, chief executive officer of Novo Nordisk, one of the world’s largest pharmaceu...
Face it, Democrats: Not all unions are allies
Lost in the deluge of campaign coverage these days is any meaningful coverage of one of the Biden administration’s signal achievements.
Less than a year ago, the president made history by walking a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line demanding that General Motors give the nation’s blue-collar workers a raise. The union’s president, Shawn Fain, declared at the time, “We know the president will do right by the working class."
When the UAW prevailed, anyone pay...
Why has Medicare’s Innovation Center failed?
The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently convened a hearing on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
Although the center “was created over a decade ago and provided billions in funding and broad authority to find ways to save taxpayer dollars and improve health outcomes for patients,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) noted, “it has little to show in demonstrated successful outcomes.” Why is this so?
Medicare tra...