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Romneycare lesson: Be patient with Obamacare
Jonathan Gruber, key architect of the Massachusetts health care law talks with Rachel Maddow about the law’s similarities to the Affordable Care Act
Memo to Democratic Chicken Littles: The Sky Is Not Falling
The American Prospect
Yes, this is a politically difficult moment for President Obama. But everyone needs to chill out.
It’s Good That You Can’t Keep Your Insurance Plan
Slate
Obama was wrong to mislead people but right to scrap dysfunctional insurance products.
Friday Nite Videos -- November 8, 2013
Portside
Jon Stewart -- Affordable Horror Story. Liquid Art. Canned Heat -- Woodstock Boogie. Burn: Detroit Firefighter Documentary. Professor Louie -- What Does it Mean to be Working Class?
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
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Watch Out: the ACA is Coming! Briefing Paper Now Available
Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Some unions have called for the repeal of Obamacare and a return to the status quo before its passage. We in the Labor Campaign believe that such a call would be a disaster for the labor movement. Rather, we believe that this is a moment to move forward to healthcare justice by ac- knowledging the weaknesses in the ACA while defending its gains and moving to establish a single-payer Medicare for All system that would make healthcare a right for everyone in America.
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Unions sitting out ACA enrollment
Politico
The AFL-CIO isn’t lifting a finger to help the White House — it remains in negotiations at the White House and on Capitol Hill to change elements of the law it finds objectionable to workers. Those talks were put on hold earlier this month during the government shutdown — a far larger concern for the federal government employee unions — and have begun to restart only in recent days, according to officials from multiple unions.
Debugging the Healthcare.gov Hearings
Salon
Thursday’s testimony on the HealthCare.gov debacle was a spectacle of tech illiteracy and buck-passing.
Tea Partiers' Grave Fear: Why They Disdain Young People - Even Their Own!
Salon
Sociologist Theda Skocpol tells what drives the angry right -- and what comes after the government shutdown. The Right in this country, over the last half century, has recognized that fighting across many localities and states is worth it. And they've developed mechanisms for doing that, and that turned out to have a big payoff in Congress. The real problem that you've got right now on the Left is how to defeat this stuff, how to contain it, how to beat it.
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