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Covered CA = VA
Some thoughts for Memorial Day, which approaches on Monday. If there’s one government program I favor, it’s helping America’s severely wounded veterans. When they signed up to defend our freedoms, they were promised that, should they be hurt in combat,
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Covered CA enrollees not necessarily Obamacare fans
There’s a logical fallacy to the stories, editorials and social media buzz saying or strongly implying that Covered California is a triumph because it is doing better than expected at signing up people for the Golden State’s version of Obamacare.
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Covered CA gains only modest signups in ‘final hours’
As the last blanket deadline extension arrived, late signups slowed down on Covered California, the state’s Obamacare exchange. Difficulties brought on by the website’s inability to process a wave of applicants gave officials an opportunity to push back the original
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CA going Third World
It took California more than a century to rid itself of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads yellow fever, by the 1970s. It has taken less than 40 years for it to make a comeback, a clear sign that California quickly
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For The Los Angeles Times, a highly revealing juxtaposition
If you’re a conservative or libertarian who’s not just mad but astounded by how much the media protect Barack Obama, Wednesday’s front page of The Los Angeles Times was likely to generate either a stroke or a snort of disbelief/amusement.
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So how great is Obamacare/Covered CA doing?
Michael Hiltzik writes that Obamacare is doing fantastic: “Against all odds and expectations, enrollments in health plans qualified under the Affordable Care Act are surging Monday toward — and maybe beyond — the 7-million figure projected by the Congressional Budget Office before
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Covered California continues to benefit from cheerleading media
Monday’s “deadline” for signing up for the Affordable Care Act triggered bad headlines for the federal health exchanges, which had an encore of last fall’s computer nightmares. But in California, Covered California enjoyed the usual upbeat happy talk in its
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Covered California to register voters
Covered California, the state’s implementation of Obamacare, now will be mailing voter registration cards to enrollees. Given that most of these folks are poor, and poor people tend to vote Democratic, this is a big boon for the Democratic Party
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Study: Med-Cal rolls could expand by 1 million
Although the California Budget Project sometimes gets into a tax-and-spend stance, their analyses often are based on solid numbers. That’s the case with their latest on Medi-Cal in Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2014-15, which begins on
Read MoreLongevity hurting CalPERS
The California Public Employees Retirement System has a new problem: retirees are living longer. That means their pension payouts continue longer than was planned for. Reported AP: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday urged California’s largest public
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