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The growing blue state advantage

These are heady days for red state propagandists. After years of leading the nation in poverty, low incomes, poor working conditions, dismal educational performance, awful health care systems, shocking...

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Missouri tries to nullify federal health care and gun laws

If you ever wondered what a 21st century nullification crisis would look like, look no further than Missouri. One hundred and forty eight years after the end of the Civil War, the New York Times...

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Health insurance 'coverage gap' coming to a red state near you

For the denizens of red state America,the final launch of the Affordable Care Act is fast becoming a Shakespearean tragedy of epic proportions. Even as the Defund Obamacare crowd continues its tale...

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Despite bungling Bush's Medicare drug rollout, GOP still attacks Obamacare...

In October, uninsured Americans will begin the process of selecting from health insurance plans offered in online exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. While 16, mostly Democratic states are...

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GOP, media forget Bush's Medicare navigators

In their latest effort to abort the Affordable Care Act, Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the states are targeting the "Obamacare navigators," the dozens of community groups, hospitals, charities and...

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When It Comes to Promoting Obamacare, Be Sweetly Subversive

Do you get frustrated by all the misinformation about the Affordable Care Act that people express in the comments section of news and opinion sites? Here's a quick and easy thing you can do to...

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Ensure Obamacare's Success – Revamp the Under 26 Provision

As the administration recognizes, the most important ingredient to the success of Obamacare is getting young, healthy people to sign up for the exchanges. The administration, though, has made a mistake...

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Better Dead and Red: How the GOP blocked health care for red state Americans

For two decades, Republicans have opposed health care reform not because they thought it would fail the American people, but because they feared it would succeed. Passage of Bill Clinton's health care...

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MASSIVE flaw in ACA?

I'm a reporter in WA and working on a preview of the rollout of the exchange here and I just got off the phone with customer service and am feeling considerably dismayed. I asked if a person was...

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America the Beautiful... Healthcare for everyone... Mind over money

   Oh say can you see by the dawns early light Tuesday morning October 1,  2013 8:00 am... There will be someone in America ready to get healthcare paying for it happily... In an exchange, resolving...

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State Exchanges Are Overloaded

Most of us have had trouble getting past the login page at healthcare.gov today. Fox News is already gloating (what a surprise!). However, the state exchanges are not doing any better...

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I got a health care quote for Colorado

Although I still can't create an account, I was able to get price quotes. Assuming I keep my job but lost insurance due to my employer dropping me (unlikely): Cheapest Bronze plan $835/month Only...

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How to see ACTUAL plans and prices if you can't get on Healthcare.gov

Many of you have been hoping to at least see the plans and prices on the federal exchanges, without success due to the current glitches at healthcare.gov.  With the assistance of DKos user guyeda,...

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Kentucky's success makes a mockery of GOP Obamacare foes

Wednesday's Wall Street Journal provides the perfect encapsulation of the conservative crusade against the Affordable Care Act. On the opinion pages, columnist James Taranto mocked the story of new...

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Technologists Working on Insurance Exchanges, A Big Thankless Job...

Ok I'm a technologist that is also human, spend 25 years in sales and marketing before crossing over to the code side,which I don't do anymore as I wanted a life back.  Don't give up on getting...

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The Sphinx from Kansas should retire

By that I mean the Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius.I know people here are fixated on the government shutdown and implosion of the Republicans. But before we get carried away with schadenfreude, we...

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Sebelius' Obamacare critics forget Bush's "horrendous" Medicare Rx launch

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has not had a very good week. Just days after the glitch-filled roll-out of the Affordable Care Act's online health insurance exchanges, Sebelius...

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"Texas closing high-risk insurance pool, pushing people to sign up for...

In today's Houston Chronicle there is an article with the above title about how Texas Gov. Rick Perry had signed a bill closing the state's high risk health insurance pool effective Jan. 1, 2014. So...

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AP: 476,000 Obamacare Applications Filed

The AP is reporting administration officials are saying more than 476,000 applications have been filed across the country.Obama's advisers say the president has been frustrated by the flawed rollout....

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I can't change the channel b/c my remote is broken

I don't have much to say here other than to point out how dependent we have become on technology.  I will walk around for five minutes trying to find the remote to the t.v. before realizing I could...

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