Trumpcare

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  9-21-17
  

  The Republican Plan to Repeal Obamacare for Everybody But Alaska Might Be Unconstitutional

  Lindsey Graham’s bill gives Alaska especially generous treatment, but the Constitution has a uniformity clause that prevents coalitions of states from ganging up on others to impose discriminatory treatment.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-27-17
  

  The moment in 1993 when healthcare died

  by Joseph J. Fins

  Bob Dole and Pat Moynihan were ready to cut a deal. Then Bill Clinton said no.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-13-17
  

  The American Health Care System Has Lots of Problems. Here's When They Started.

  Christy Ford Chapin, author of Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System, says the key year was 1938.

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• SOURCE: Political Wire
  7-7-17
  

  The Most Unpopular Bill In Three Decades

  "The Republican health care effort is the most unpopular legislation in three decades — less popular than the Affordable Care Act when it was passed, the widely hated Troubled Asset Relief Program bank bailout bill in 2008, and even President Bill Clinton’s failed health reform effort in the 1990s."

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• 7-9-17
  

  A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before. It Ended in Disaster.

  by Michael Todd Landis

  A history lesson from the 1850s that the GOP and Donald Trump should heed.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-23-17
  

  What happens when the federal government eliminates health coverage?

  by Simon Haeder

  Lessons from the past.

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now
  6-29-17
  

  Duke’s Nancy MacLean says the GOP plan to replace Obamacare reflects the radical right’s “stealth plan” (Interview)

  She is the author of "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America."

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• 7-2-17
  

  The GOP’s Pattern of Denial Is Usually Followed by Acceptance

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  That’s what happens with Social Security.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-22-17
  

  History Lesson: How the Democrats pushed Obamacare through the Senate

  The key work on creating the Senate version of the ACA was done in secret.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6-20-17
  

  Congress Has a History of Legislating in Secrecy

  by Julian Zelizer (Interview)

  Medicare was largely designed in secret, though there had been public hearings. 

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  6-16-17
  

  Republican secrecy faces mounting criticism as GOP senators work behind closed doors to replace Obamacare

  The GOP’s secretive process marks a sharp departure from the traditional way the Senate has developed large, complex bills.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-31-17
  

  After Health Bill’s Defeat, What Trump Can Learn From L.B.J.

  by Michael Beschloss

  Unlike Donald Trump, Lyndon Johnson had years of political experience that enabled him to pass his landmark Medicare legislation.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  3-27-17
  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin Puts Trump's Health Care Defeat In Historical Perspective

  "By going for this crazy, difficult, complicated problem first — without knowing you had your own party behind you — I think it's just gonna cast a shadow on everything else."

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• 3-19-17
  

  “Trumpcare” – A Word Democrats Can Learn to Love

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  Personalizing policies is a proven way to discredit them.

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• 12-11-16
  

  What Might Save Us? If Trump’s Another Nixon.

  by Richard Striner

  Like Nixon, Trump may reap what he has sowed.

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• 5-1-16
  

  Would a Republican President Dare to Dismantle Obamacare?

  by Daniel E. Dawes

  It’s not inconceivable. And it wouldn’t be the first time a party overturned a law that helped millions.

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