Moderate Democrats like Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Rep. Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey are running for governor on a message that resonates: tackle affordability, fix health care and expand opportunity. If they win, they will be hailed as the future of the Democratic Party.
But there is a trap. There are few policy prescriptions that are bold enough to matter but moderate enough to win.
As it turns out, the American government al...
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No Kings indeed: A partial list of Trump’s shameless power grabs
Millions of Americans opposed to President Trump’s attacks on our Constitution, democracy and the rule of law are expected to join some 2,000 peaceful No Kings Day protests around the nation tomorrow. The protests are a follow-up to the No Kings Day held on June 14 — Trump’s 79th birthday.
The protests are backed by a long list of nonprofits and will draw patriotic Republicans, Democrats, independents and third-party backers determined to...
The government shutdown is holding health care hostage
Health insurance is supposed to help families, not bully them. Yet when big insurers, or their lobby in Washington, don’t get the policy outcome they want, they reach for the same lever: higher premiums.
That isn’t care. That’s pressure — and patients feel it first.
We have seen this before. In October 2017, the administration cut off cost-sharing reduction payments. Carriers answered by “silver-loading” the next year, piling the missing dollars onto sil...
MAHA is nothing more than empty rhetoric leading health care on a dangerous course
Over my career, I have worked as a primary care physician, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and an executive at CVS Health. So by all means, yes, let’s Make America Healthy Again. But if that’s truly the goal, then the Trump administration’s approach, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a farce.
Despite lofty slogans, there is no clear or coherent health policy coming out of this administration. Instead, we are seeing a patchwork of marginal reforms paired with sweepin...
How to reopen the government: Rebrand Obamacare as ‘TrumpCare’
As the first shutdown since 2009 rolls on, reopening the government will likely hinge on Democrats’ success convincing President Trump to learn to love a program that he has repeatedly attempted to destroy: Obamacare.
To do that, Democrats can lean on the type of strategic flattery employed by certain U.S. companies and world leaders to gain edge in their dealings with Trump. In short, Democrats’ best chance to break the impasse is by convincing President Trump tha...
Democrats can end the shutdown — just tie the Epstein files’ release to a spending bill
The government shutdown shows no signs of stopping. But eventually, Democrats are going to cave and agree to end the shutdown, because they have a much lower threshold for national pain than the Trump White House does.
Apart from the president’s willingness to target blue states and “Democrat agencies,” whatever those are, the wheels will eventually begin to come off of vital parts of the government like the FBI. Last time, that took about four weeks.
That means De...
Trump has the most to lose in the shutdown showdown
Americans embrace change but recoil from chaos. This is the third time that the federal government has shut down while Donald Trump has been president. One shutdown may be an accident, twice a coincidence but the third time is an ominous pattern, three strikes and MAGA is out.
A new national survey of adult Americans by CBS News and YouGov.com indicates that congressional Democrats have an edge in the showdown over the federal government shutdown. My party’s advant...
MTG goes off on GOP over health insurance premiums ‘doubling’
Congress is locked in a standoff that’s about to hit millions of Americans right in the wallet.
The government shutdown continues, and one of the biggest casualties could be — health care. If lawmakers don’t extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies put in place during COVID, health insurance premiums for more than 20 million people could double.
But instead of offering real solutions, we’re seeing memes and tantrums. So, GOP Rep. Marjorie T...
Democrat shutdown cuts off aid to the poor to give the rich cheaper insurance
Pregnant women, poor children and the disabled are some of society’s most vulnerable populations. It’s a shame that Democrats in Washington are using these populations as bargaining chips to undo needed reforms to social safety net programs like Medicaid that would combat fraud and abuse to preserve these programs for the most needy.
The left’s federal government shutdown is not just needless; it is heartless.
We are now officially one week into the government shut...
Shut down and find out: Three possible major consequences
Another government shutdown is upon us, and you know what that means: More handwringing about closed parks, furloughed workers, and stalled paychecks.
Not to make light of the real struggles that come with Washington’s periodic bouts of dysfunction (or the reputational hit abroad), but this particular shutdown could also carry outsized long-term political consequences that transcend the normal news coverage.
Although it is impossible to game out every pos...