Support for the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration’s signature health care law, has hit a record low. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation poll, only 34 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the new law, while 51 percent have an unfavorable view of the law. The drop in overall support for the [...]

Despite the widely cited claim that eliminating the mandate would cause a premium death spiral, with only the sickest buying coverage and everyone else dropping coverage, there is no solid real-world data showing this does happen in places with guaranteed issue.

Reading the coverage and watching the horrifying footage of the police breaking up the occupy Oakland protest, it is an important time to remind everyone, especially the media, that there is no such thing as “non-lethal” weapons. There are only weapons that tend to be less deadly. The weapons often used by police for crowd [...]

According to exclusive reporting from Reuters the Democrats on the Super Committee are offering to cut Medicare and Medicaid benefits as part of a roughly $3 trillion grand bargain, which would well exceed the $1.2 trillion minimum goal the committee is tasked with meeting. From Reuters: It calls for between $200 billion and $300 billion [...]

Congress’ job approval rating had been hovering in the low single digits for months, but it managed to drop to only 9 percent in the newest CBS News/New York Time poll. An overwhelming 84 percent of Americans don’t approve of the job Congress is currently doing. From CBS News: In a poll released Tuesday, just [...]

A poll of Massachusetts residents by Harvard’s School of Public Health and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation found that regular people in Massachusetts are remarkably well informed about the primary reasons their health care is so extremely expensive compared to health care in other industrialized countries. According to the poll regular people [...]

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Testing indicates a new malaria vaccine could be effective in helping to combat the disease. From MSNBC: An experimental vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline halved the risk of African children getting malaria in a major clinical trial, making it likely to become the world’s first shot against the deadly disease. Final-stage trial data released on Tuesday showed [...]

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) told a crowd in Northbrook that he would like to see the Senate rules changed so that if a minority wanted to filibuster to prevent a vote on the bill, they would need to actually continuously talk on the Senate floor. From the Wilmette-Kenilworth Patch: Frustrated with Senate Republicans blocking a [...]