Looking Overseas Gives Us Reasons to Be Thankful for Obamacare
That's a lot of numbers, but they all tell the same story: The United States has the most complicated, most expensive, and most frustrating health care system in the industrialized world -- and none of that is due to Obamacare, most of which took effect after the survey.
My New Book Has Been Published! Just in Time for the Holidays...
"Letter to the One Percent" is exactly what it sounds like: a letter to the richest one percent of American households. It is a call to action, a plea for compassion, and a manifesto for the future.
Obamacare Is Not a Reason to Give Up on Government Programs
The biggest myth of the Obamacare debate goes like this: The failures of Obamacare prove that the government can't be trusted to run our health care system.
Those Obamacare Stories Aren’t as Scary as They Sound
So, yes, you can keep your old plan. Unless the insurance company changes it. In which case it isn't your old plan anymore.
Watch Me Debate Obamacare and the Tea Party on The Rick Amato Show!
On October 21, I was a guest on The Rick Amato Show, a very conservative political talk show on the new cable TV channel One America News Network. Amato and the other guests did their best to tag-team me on Obamacare and the Tea Party. It was a real slugfest!
Even the Shutdown Can't Kill Old Republican Fallacies
Since the government started collecting economic data around World War II, we have accumulated plenty of evidence to measure each party's success at "dealing with the economy" -- and none of it makes Republicans look good.
Great Nations Pay Their Bills
Today's debate may be polarized, but no one seriously expects half the nation to secede because of it. And yet, in the early days of the American experiment, that’s how controversial the national debt was.
The Federal Government Didn't Lose the War on Poverty. It Retreated.
It's no surprise that the poverty rate rose to 15 percent during the Great Recession. A century of progress has been forgotten.
Geography: The Latest Front in the Class War
We talk a lot about the partisan divide in this country, but we don't talk enough about the geographic divide. The citizens who feel the greatest disconnect from collective institutions are often the ones who live farthest away from them.
Why President Obama Is Right to Focus on Inequality
During a period when the economy doubled in size, the total income earned by 90 percent of Americans didn't increase by a single penny. All the gains went to the richest 10 percent.
Reader Request: Who Will Benefit from ObamaCare?
The cost of ObamaCare is far less than its critics would have you believe.
Four Myths -- and the Truth! -- About the Individual Mandate
The individual mandate was a Republican invention from a time when it was not yet heresy for a Republican politician to advocate providing affordable health insurance to every American without a government takeover of the industry.
The Republican Riddle: What the States Know That the Feds Don't
At the state level, Republicans are cynically and diabolically riding to victory on the wings of a big federal government while claiming to be doing the exact opposite.
The Story of a Generation: We Are the Unhireables
There is no parallel for this in postwar history. My generation is alone in this experience. No other living generation has graduated into a job market that has been so bad for so long.