Tag: 2013 Shutdown

Where Medicaid is Not Expanding is Where it is Needed Most

Oct 10, 2013

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Brendan Barry

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Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that most of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was constitutional. The one exception, however, was the plan to force states to expand their Medicaid coverage. Medicaid is the government plan tasked with helping to provide health insurance to the poor. But between the poverty level and…
The Republicans Who Support a Clean Budget Resolution

Oct 8, 2013

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Brendan Barry

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Yesterday, we looked at the new Conservative Party of America. But those are the votes that John Boehner fears to upset—and possibly fracture his party and cost him his job—if he should let a clean budget resolution come to the floor and should it pass. But why would it pass if it needs 217 votes…