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poll position
Apr. 6, 2024
Trump vs. Biden Polls: Will Old Folks Save Joe? There are signs Biden is holding on to a significant percentage of the senior vote against Trump, which may offset his problems with younger voters.
early and often
May 10, 2023
DeSantis Is Letting Trump Crush Him on Retirement Programs Republican voters simply do not share the views of conservative ideologues on Social Security and Medicare. Trump gets it; DeSantis doesn’t.
By Ed Kilgore
How Biden Learned to Love the Debt-Ceiling Crisis He has turned a chronic political headache into a winning issue.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Mar. 7, 2023
Biden Aims to Keep Playing Offense on Medicare The president is framing Medicare solvency as a choice between tax hikes on the rich and benefit cuts in another preemptive strike at Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
corporate america
Feb. 21, 2022
This Is How Big Pharma Wins Two years into the pandemic, the industry has evaded reforms a supermajority of voters want.
By Alexander Zaitchik
How People on Medicare Can Get Free Home COVID Tests (Soon) Medicare beneficiaries were left out of the home COVID test reimbursement rule, but they’ll finally get free tests this spring. Here’s what we know.
By Margaret Hartmann
Biden Didn’t Have the Power or Luck to Become FDR or LBJ Biden is trying to govern in an era totally unlike the 1930s or 1960s with little margin for error and a lot of nasty surprises. Give him a break.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Dentists Oppose Democrats’ Plan to Add Dental Coverage to Medicare Like physicians before them, dentists are against so-called “socialized medicine” — even though it will help fill their own pockets.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
July 16, 2021
Biden’s FDR-size Bet The president is rallying Democrats behind a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget package. It could be the key to winning 2024.
By Jonathan Chait
Senate Dems Start Loading a $3.5 Trillion Bazooka to Pass Biden’s Agenda A new agreement would dodge a Republican filibuster to expand the welfare state, but many issues are yet to be resolved.
By Ed Kilgore
covid-19 stimulus
Mar. 8, 2021
The Four-Year Swing That Saved America’s Safety Net Biden’s COVID stimulus bill is even more impressive when you remember the assault on poor people Republicans failed to enact in 2017.
By Ed Kilgore
sex scandals
Feb. 24, 2021
Fanne Fox, Wilbur Mills, and a Tale of Washington Hubris The woman involved in the implosion of one of Washington’s most bloated careers has died, and with her a golden era of D.C. sex scandals.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 13, 2020
How Biden Can Respond to the Left’s Demand for Medicare for All Biden’s first “concessions” on health-care policy aren’t enough to satisfy progressives. He might want to emulate Warren’s two-step plan.
By Ed Kilgore
Biden Inches Toward Sanders on Health Care, Student Loans But on health care in particular, Biden’s revised plan doesn’t do much for those about to get hammered with private-health-insurance costs.
By Ed Kilgore
federal budget
Feb. 9, 2020
Trump to Propose Cuts to Safety Net Once Again It’s budget proposal season, meaning the Trump administration has again recommended billion-dollar cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare.
By Matt Stieb
president trump
Jan. 24, 2020
Donald Trump Is Already Trying to Cut Entitlements Forget Trump’s vague public remarks. His White House has officially endorsed cuts to Social Security, and is trying to cut Medicaid by fiat.
By Eric Levitz
Democrats Should Make 2020 Into a Referendum on ‘More Socialism for Old People’ The GOP needs seniors’ votes but is ideologically incapable of meeting their needs.
By Eric Levitz
JFK’s Complicated Legacy on the Anniversary of His Assassination His tragically shortened presidency was shrouded by myth and distorted by the family dynasty.
By Ed Kilgore
house democrats
Sept. 19, 2019
Nancy Pelosi’s Drug Plan Pits Trump’s Base Against GOP Orthodoxy Price controls on prescription drugs are deeply popular with the GOP’s aging base — and deeply antithetical to GOP lawmakers’ ideology.
By Eric Levitz
Senator Whose Company Defrauded Medicare to Lead GOP’s Health-Care Push Trump’s slapdash effort to own health care reform will be led by Rick Scott, the ex-CEO of a company once fined $1.7 billion for defrauding Medicare.
By Matt Stieb
the republican party
Mar. 28, 2019
The Republican Party Has an Older Voters Problem As our retirement crisis deepens, the GOP will have a harder time balancing its opposition to social spending and reliance on elderly voters.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Mar. 24, 2019
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Dec. 14, 2018
Even Old Folks Trended Democratic in 2018 The Democratic future depends on young and minority voters and college-educated women. But many seniors vote, and more of them are voting Democratic.
By Ed Kilgore
Please Stop Helping Mitch McConnell Lie About the Deficit The Senate Majority Leader says that simple math requires the U.S. to cut Social Security and Medicare. Too many “objective” reporters agree.
By Eric Levitz
medicare for all
Sept. 7, 2018
GOP’s Latest Mediscare Tactic Is Deeply Cynical Attacking Medicare for All as a threat to Medicare is pretty bald-faced.
By Ed Kilgore
The GOP’s New Midterm Message: Nancy Pelosi Wants to Cut Medicare Republicans’ closing argument in an Ohio congressional special election is that a Democrat-controlled House would cut Medicare and Social Security.
By Eric Levitz
Voters Who Like ‘Medicare for All’ May Not Support Single-Payer Truth is, single-payer is very different from Medicare, even if it borrows the Medicare “brand.”
By Ed Kilgore
No, Democratic Populism Won’t Force Republicans to Accept Big Government Reihan Salam wants Republicans to develop a positive agenda of universal programs the white working class will embrace. It’s not going to happen.
By Ed Kilgore
California Considers Medical Price Controls In an alternative to single payer, a California proposal aims at holding down health care costs.
By Ed Kilgore
Paul Ryan’s Long Fight to Destroy the Welfare State Ends in Defeat After failing to repeal Obamacare and “reform” Medicaid, Ryan looked forward to more years of futility and decided to pack it in.
By Ed Kilgore
No, the HOPE Scholarship Didn’t Kill Great Society Liberalism A provocative op-ed says Zell Miller’s and Bill Clinton’s embrace of merit-based scholarships showed their betrayal of liberalism. I beg to differ.
By Ed Kilgore
The 3 Claims Republicans Are Making About Their Tax Bill’s Effects Some of the good things tax cuts produce are ephemeral; others could backfire.
By Ed Kilgore
Liberal Think Tank Unveils New Alternative to Single-Payer Health Care You can view the new CAP proposal as a sign of growing Democratic progressivism, or as a way to avoid the problems with single-payer plans.
By Ed Kilgore
Ryan to Unemployed Poor: Let ‘Em Eat Job Training The frustrated would-be entitlement reformer Paul Ryan is taking the indirect route of linking work requirements to job-training programs.
By Ed Kilgore
McConnell Says No to Ryan’s Dream of Cutting Entitlements in 2018 Ryan wants to use power to achieve ideological goals. McConnell wants power for power’s sake.
By Ed Kilgore
Paul Ryan Tried to Save Medicare by Having Sex 3 Times “I did my part, but we need to have higher birth rates in this country.”
By Madeleine Aggeler
the national interest
Dec. 6, 2017
Paul Ryan Is Trying to Talk Trump Into Cutting Medicare It would be even more insanely unpopular than what they’ve already done.
By Jonathan Chait
Republicans Are Going to Take From the Poor to Give to the Rich Spending cuts provide an alternative way to “pay for” GOP tax cuts. And it’s far more likely than attacks on sacred cows in the tax code.
By Ed Kilgore
LePage Insists Medicaid Is ‘Welfare’ With Maine voters having a chance to expand Medicaid over Paul LePage’s objections, he wants the ballot to call the venerable program “welfare.”
By Ed Kilgore
Tom Price at HHS Is Just What the Doctors Ordered Out of the spotlight, HHS secretary Tom Price has been busily dismantling regulations that hold his fellow physicians accountable for results.
By Ed Kilgore
House Budget Proposes Cuts to Medicare, Taxes on the Rich The House GOP wants the president to break his promise not to cut Medicare, for the sake of funding regressive tax cuts.
By Eric Levitz
After Trumpcare, Republicans Will Have to Tackle an Even Bigger Mess Yes, the health-care debacle has stalled budget and tax bills, but Republicans are nowhere close to agreement on the broad outlines of a fiscal plan.
By Ed Kilgore
Mark Penn Mischaracterizes the 1996 Clinton-Gore Campaign An op-ed co-authored by Clinton strategist Mark Penn tells Democrats to emulate a 1996 strategy the actual candidates did not pursue.
By Ed Kilgore
California’s Single-Payer Bill Halted by Democratic Assembly Speaker Citing two big procedural bars to enactment of a single-payer plan, Speaker Anthony Rendon stopped action on it, inviting attacks from proponents.
By Ed Kilgore
Will New York and California Take the Plunge on Single-Payer Health Care? With the national debate in chaos, big blue states might just go it alone on socialized health insurance.
By Ed Kilgore
Tom Price Is the Perfect Villain for Obamacare Defenders The upside of Price’s confirmation for Democrats: A (seemingly) corrupt opponent of Medicare is now the face of Obamacare repeal.
By Eric Levitz
Red-State Democrats Not Rushing to Help Republicans Just Yet The GOP assumed that Dems from pro-Trump states might be of help in the Senate. It’s not looking that way.
By Ed Kilgore
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