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The GOP’s Health Crisis

Eugene Robinson Washington Post
Wednesday’s status report on the health-insurance reforms was by far the best news for Democrats and the Obama administration since the program’s incompetent launch. January was the first month when new enrollments surpassed expectations, as the balky HealthCare.gov Web site began functioning more or less as intended.

A Baby in Paris: $200 Minus $200

Claire Lundberg Salon
Having a baby in Paris gave me a crash course in socialized medicine—and a new, very French definition of “costly.”

Tidbits - November 28, 2013

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Affordable Horror Story

The Daily Show

President Obama qualifies his formerly definitive statements regarding the Affordable Care Act, and his opponents lie like motherf**kers about its effects
 

Tough Questions About Black Lung and Money

Coal companies have paid millions of dollars to Johns Hopkins medical institutions over the last decade for medical opinions that have been used to deny hundreds of ailing mine workers meager black lung benefits
 
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