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Obamacare will be Romney's savior
It looks as if it's going to be Mitt Romney after all. With his primary victories Tuesday and with Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush endorsing the former Massachusetts governor last week, there aren't any white knights left to play the role of GOP...
Tags: Marco Rubio, Justice System, Joe Biden, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Insurers eager to maintain authority over healthcare premiums
While most of us face uncertainty with the rollout of healthcare reform, some insurance companies in California have been feeling their oats lately. Here's how they're responding to Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones' warnings that their latest rate...
Tags: Voting, Politics, Health Insurance Cost, Lobbying, Healthcare Provider
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Dueling dozens
For the past year, left-leaning Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has regularly been trading views on the presidential race with writers from the other side of the political spectrum, looking for trends, points of agreement and areas of divergence. For the last...Tags: The Pentagon, Gays and Lesbians, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration
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The unmasking of Paul Ryan and his budget
Quick! Somebody tell President Obama. Alert the members of Congress. Shout it out to the media: I have balanced the budget! That's right. Me. Bill Press, talk show host. I did it. I can't balance my own checkbook, but I balanced the federal budget. In...
Tags: Government, Jay Carney, Politics, White House, Mitt Romney
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GOP's effort to roll back healthcare reforms is bad policy
Bernie Morse, 65, of Century City retired last year from the aerospace industry and joined the ranks of Medicare beneficiaries. The nearly $8,000 he used to spend annually on drugs for a liver condition now will be cut almost in half. Were a private...
Tags: Medicaid, Justice System, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Health Insurance
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Fighting the last political war
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan, in previewing his revamped plan to balance the federal budget in 10 years, included a continuation of his party's campaign pledge to "repeal and replace Obamacare." Among...Tags: Politics, White House, Mitt Romney, Jules Witcover, U.S. Congress
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Ryan in fantasyland
WASHINGTON -- If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller. You will recall that The Ryan Budget was...
Tags: Politics, Fox News Channel (tv network), Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Budgets and Budgeting
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Democrats riding high for now, but beware a midterm crash
My columnist and television pundit gigs have me thinking a great deal about the relative positions of the two parties heading into the midterm election cycle. For starters, the Democrats are ahead. Last November's elections gave the president a...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Politics, Labor Legislation, Karl Rove, U.S. Congress
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Ryan's hope
Cal ThomasHouse Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is looking beyond Friday and the beginning of the sequestration. In an interview I conducted with him on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Ryan told me he believes a majority of Americans will come to understand how...Tags: Politics, Health Insurance Cost, Pension and Welfare, Labor Legislation, U.S. Congress
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Gov. Scott to voters: Never mind
Cal ThomasORLANDO, Fla. -- Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was one of those tea party stars whom voters believed had the courage of his convictions when he promised, as recently as last summer, to block The Affordable Care Act in his state. But last week, writes the...Tags: Government, Medicaid, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration
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Republicans can't escape blame for sequester
If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress -- in a good week, in session no more than two and a half days -- let the Standard & Poor's credit...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Voting, Politics, White House, Leon Panetta
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Peter Beilenson's next great adventure in health care
Peter Beilenson — doctor and public health visionary, Baltimore health commissioner, Howard County health officer, quick-study scholar and decoder of federal regulations — remains one of our most interesting men. A person whose leadership has...
Tags: Medicaid, Malaysia, Prince George's County, White Marsh, Health Insurance
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