Is This the Most Astonishing Obamacare Result Ever?

...the very instant that penalties begin for high readmission rates, everything stabilizes again. Apparently America's hospitals unanimously decided that once they'd hit a certain level, that was good enough and they wouldn't bother trying to improve even more...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/most-astonishing-obamacare-result-ever

‘Fruit salad’ and five more memorable GOP debate moments

The big headline of the night may have been Sen. Marco Rubio’s decision to finally take the fight to the front-runner Donald Trump, but the most memorable lines and exchanges often belonged to others – paging Dr. Ben Carson...
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/fruit-salad-gop-debate-moments

How Obama would fix the ACA's 'Cadillac Tax' - CSMonitor.com

The Affordable Care Act's Cadillac Tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health plans has few friends on Capitol Hill, but a top administration adviser argues that it is a 'crucial tool' for making the US healthcare system more efficient...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2016/0210/How-Obama-would-fix-the-ACA-s-Cadillac-Tax

Here's a Huge and Undercovered Obamacare Success Story

Bottom line: Obamacare may have missed CBO's target for exchange enrollment by 7 million or so, but much of this is because it beat CBO's target for private insurance by 24 million...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/heres-huge-and-undercovered-obamacare-success-story

Hobby Lobby Is Backing a Surprising Candidate for President

The company that believes Plan B causes abortion donated to support a candidate who believes it should be available over the counter.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/hobby-lobbys-donation-marco-rubio-contraceptives%20

Obamacare Enrollment Up About 15 Percent This Year

Add to that about 15 million people enrolled in Medicaid thanks to the Obamacare expansion, and the total number of people covered this year comes to 28 million or so. This means Obamacare has reduced the ranks of the uninsured from 19 percent to about 10 percent. Not bad...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/02/obamacare-enrollment-about-15-percent-year

Ted Cruz's Health Care Deception: Asked How He'd Protect the Uninsured, He Dodges and Lies

Repealing Obamacare would leave lots of people uninsured, and Cruz would help them with free-market pixie dust...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/ted-cruzs-health-care-deception-asked-how-hed-protect-uninsured-he-dodges-and-lies

Few States Use Health Law Option For Low-Cost Plans

In January, more than 350,000 New Yorkers began paying $20 a month or less for comprehensive health insurance with no deductibles and low copayments, for a type of coverage made possible by the federal health law. Minnesota has similar coverage in place through the same option, with more than 125,000 enrollees...
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/02/465184081/few-states-use-health-law-option-for-low-cost-plans

Discussion: We Finally Get An Obamacare Replacement Question At A GOP Debate! - TPM Article Topics - The Hive

http://forums.talkingpointsmemo.com/t/discussion-we-finally-get-an-obamacare-replacement-question-at-a-gop-debate/31935

Cruz Pressed On O'Care Repeal: Is It OK That Millions Will Lose Coverage?

"Today there are millions of people who gained health insurance from Obamacare and they now rely on it," Megyn Kelly said, in a question directed towards Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). "If you repeal Obamacare, as you say you will, will you be fine if millions of people don't have health insurance? And what is your specific plan for covering the uninsured?" (See reader comments after the article as well.)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obamacare-repeal-question

What's The Real Reason Ted Cruz Doesn't Have Health Insurance?

Was his own negligence to blame?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-health-insurance-questions

Ignore The Naysayers – Single Payer Healthcare Is A Great Idea

The media is telling us that Bernie Sanders’ plan for a single payer healthcare option is unattainable, but the facts of the case say otherwise. These naysayers clearly have something to gain by downplaying a plan that most Americans support.
https://youtu.be/xnrCyD5Qlqw

Griping Aside, America Is In Pretty Damn Good Shape (Mother Jones)

...But generally speaking, Grunwald is right. America weathered the Great Recession better than Europe, better than China, better than Japan, better than Russia, better than just about anybody. Health care costs have been growing slowly and more people are covered than ever before. Taxes are low on the middle class...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/griping-aside-america-pretty-damn-good-shape

Another Year, Another Round of Attacks on Contraception Coverage

Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, guaranteeing for the first time ever that most employer-provided health care insurance plans could no longer discriminate in coverage on the basis of gender. Yet despite the wide carve-out in the law for churches and houses of worship, as well as the generous accommodation process for religiously affiliated nonprofits to opt out of its contraceptive coverage requirement, conservatives have not stopped fighting the ACA since...
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/12/23/another-year-another-round-attacks-contraception-coverage/

HealthCare.Gov Enrollment Up 30 Percent Over Last Year

"These figures should allay concerns that enrollment is at risk of stagnating," he wrote.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/obamacare-enrollment-increase

Paul Ryan's shaky claim that Obamacare is 'making families pay double-digit premium increases'

The Affordable Care Act is "making families pay double-digit premium increases."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/20/paul-ryan/paul-ryans-shaky-claim-obamacare-making-families-p/

RELIGIOUS EXCEPTIONS NOT SO EXCEPTIONAL ACCORDING TO NEW STUDY

Kaiser found in fact that 10 percent of nonprofits with more than 1,000 employees have requested an accommodation to the contraceptive mandate, as did five percent of firms with between 200 and 999 employees. According to Kaiser, “many of the nonprofits who have sought the accommodation are likely health systems or educational institutions affiliated with the Catholic Church, which objects to birth control.”...
http://religiondispatches.org/religious-exceptions-not-so-exceptional-according-to-new-study/

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Red States Begin To See The Light On Medicaid Expansion | ThinkProgress

“I am concerned about the plight of the working poor … If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can’t expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money,” Gov. Robert Bentley told the Associated Press a week after Bevin’s Kentucky victory.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/11/23/3725056/red-state-medicaid-expansion/

Krugman Offers Reality Check to Delusional Obamacare Doomsdayers

Yes, it has hit some snags. No, it is not in a death spiral.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/krugman-offers-reality-check-delusional-obamacare-doomsdayers