From ThinkProgress: Confused about Obamacare? Want to know more about your insurance options before open enrollment in October? Don’t even know what “open enrollment” means? The largest online health website in the country, WebMD, wants to help answer your questions. WedMD on Tuesday announced that it is launching a comprehensive…
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The Affordable Care Act does not require businesses to provide health benefits to their workers, but larger employers face penalties starting in 2014 if they don’t make affordable coverage available. This simple flowchart from the Kaiser Family Foundation illustrates how those employer responsibilities work. (View full-sized version (.pdf) or click…
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President Barack Obama’s 2012 election marks the culmination of a decades-long project to build an electorally viable and ideologically coherent progressive coalition in national politics. From Center for American Progress: With President Barack Obama’s decisive victory in the 2012 election, he becomes the first Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt—and the…
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Source: Slate How the ground game trumped super PAC millions: The day before the election, President Barack Obama was preparing to speak in Ohio when state Republicans tweeted that they had knocked on 75,000 doors that day. Campaign aides told Obama they had knocked on 376,000 doors that day, according…
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Light of the Future/Rays of Hope, a mural of Barack Obama in Bushwick, Brooklyn From In These Times: For this is the way the new power lies: Those who once dwelled at the margins of the Commonwealth have appropriated the language of their colonial masters and used it with great…
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From NYT Op-Ed Contributor Joel Benenson: The president’s victory was a triumph of vision, not of demographics. He won because he articulated a set of values that define an America that the majority of us wish to live in: A nation that makes the investments we need to strengthen and…
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From The Nation: It wasn’t even close. That’s the unexpected result of the November 6 election. And President Obama and his supporters must wrap their heads around this new reality—just as their Republican rivals are going to have to adjust to it. After a very long, very hard campaign that…
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