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October 23rd, 2012

Given the late campaign hour, Forbes columnist and Romney outside advisor Avik Roy can be forgiven for not going out of his way to detail the many ways that the Affordable Care Act seeks to improve women’s health. Less forgiveable is his account of Medicaid finances.

October 21st, 2012

Apparently, they are all welfare recipients….

October 20th, 2012

I titled this video “Lack of detail: the Romney health plan’s preexisting condition.” This ponderous video is mainly posted to torture commenters Don A in Pennsyltucky and Warren Terra. The written version, with weblinks, etc., can be found here.

October 18th, 2012

Dinesh D’Souza is a loathsome character. It’s still unbecoming to take pleasure in his fall from a misdemeanor sex scandal.

October 17th, 2012

This is my favorite campaign insight, provided by the Roosevelt Institute’s Mark Schmitt. I think it goes a long way to understanding Governor Romney’s difficulties in the second debate. In this unintentionally funny low-tech video, I say more. PS: Winning is a lot more fun than losing.

October 15th, 2012

My Doctors for America colleague Chris Lillis has made a nice video about health reform. Enjoy.

October 13th, 2012

“But I imagine that doing so [making the numbers work] would not be mathematically impossible.

October 13th, 2012

My own politically DOA tax plan. Impose a dollar-cap on deductions and exemptions for items such as health insurance coverage. And then stop there..

October 10th, 2012

Because I’m so angry at Romney for policy reasons, and because I don’t know enough about the granular details of what Bain actually did, I’ve avoided prognostication about Romney’s character as a businessman beyond that. I’ll make an exceptio for this story of Bain’s role helping companies sell cigarettes in the United States and post-Soviet Russia.

October 9th, 2012

Pardon the most boring title in the history of RBC.


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