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USA Today: Obamacare a fiasco in at least 34 states
The national media were asleep for a long, long time on Obamacare. But no more. This is from USA Today: “More than half of the counties in 34 states using the federal health insurance exchange lack even a bronze plan
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Insurance agent: Covered CA CEO ‘should immediately resign’
Merry Christmas, everyone! The California media’s coverage continue to be on the benign side when it comes to our version of Obamacare. The recent revelations of Covered California’s deceit on insurance sign-ups were barely reported, with just a handful of
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Early warning on big 2014 story: CA trial lawyers’ power play
In an unusually tart warts-and-all Sac Bee profile of Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, reporter Chris Cadelago gives early notice on what will be a huge story in state politics next year: “A 2014 initiative advanced by Jones, a Sacramento Democrat,
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Don’t trust Covered California’s latest round of happy talk
While the national media increasingly seem to have figured out that Obamacare is a farce, its California version continues to get better press than it should. Stories about the extreme sticker shock faced by CA residents turn up in AP
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Court thwarts CA officials’ cynical race-racket coverup
Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2009 opinion calling government racial quotas a “sordid business” hits the spot. Sordid also pretty much describes all government racial maneuvering and gamesmanship. Consider the case now playing out in California courts: “SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
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Michal Bloomberg’s candor beats Jerry Brown’s candor — by a mile
Jack Dean of the invaluable pensiontsunami.com website sent me a Politicker story about departing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s exit speech that Bloomberg plainly intended to be a historic demarcation of sorts. Bloomberg hammered home the theme that what
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Bullet-train coverage: All the happy talk that fits
The Fresno Bee’s editorial page has cheered longer and harder for the bullet-train project than just about any newspaper in the state. But has this enthusiasm affected news coverage? A story in Wednesday’s paper should make Fresno Bee readers wonder.
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Covered California admits ‘mistake’ that made it seem a success
So Covered California has admitted a mistake in its initial description of signups for California’s version of Obamacare, and it was that fake description that led to stories across the nation about Obamacare getting off to a great start in
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Texas cashing in on fracking of shale; will CA leaders allow same?
At Gov. Jerry Brown’s behest, California has adopted fracking regulations that appear to allow for significant use of the vastly improved drilling technology to access 15 billion-plus barrels of oil under a vast swath of Central California, from the coast
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An open letter to bullet-train board Chairman Dan Richard
Dan Richard was at it again in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times. LAT’s Ralph Vartabedian did a good job painting a downbeat picture of the bullet train’s prospects after negative legal and regulatory rulings. But he didn’t ask the question that blows
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