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Paul Krugman | The New Plot Against Obamacare
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "The Affordable Care Act was an imperfect and incomplete reform. The political compromises needed to get it through Congress created a complex system in which too many people fall through the holes."
Before the A.C.A. went into effect, 24 percent of California adults too young for Medicare were uninsured. Today that number is down to 10 percent. In West Virginia, uninsurance fell from 21 percent to 9. In Kentucky, it fell from 21 to 7.
Over all, around 20 million Americans who wouldn’t have had health insurance without the A.C.A. now do.
Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Joshua Lott/Reuters)
A veritable rogue’s gallery of corporatist malefactors, the list also includes the likes of Jamie Dillion, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Jeffrey Immelt, former CEO of General Electric; Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve; and Jon Cowan, president of the Democratic establishment think tank Third Way, among others. Variously opposed to raising the minimum wage, pro-sweatshop, supportive of deep cuts to Medicare and Social Security, every man named is both exorbitantly wealthy and visibly terrified of Bernie Sanders.
Robert Mueller. (photo: James Berglie/TNS)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (photo: Bryan Cox/Getty Images)
Jared Kushner and Donald Trump. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP)
The list of former Trump campaign or administration officials the committee voted to subpoena Thursday includes Flynn, former White House Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, former White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
Those former officials are likely to have information on the Trump administration’s contacts with Russian nationals during the 2016 presidential campaign and Trump’s alleged efforts to dampen or halt the Mueller probe.
The committee also voted to subpoena the editor of the National Enquirer, Dylan Howard, along with its publisher, David Pecker, as part of an investigation into whether they bought the exclusive rights to — and then buried — the stories of two women who say they had affairs with Trump as part of an alleged hush-money scheme.
A paramilitary group in Colombia. (photo: InSight Crime)
UN Visits Colombia to Review Failing Peace Accord
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Excerpt: "This week, United Nations Security Council members will visit Colombia to review the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement that ended the armed conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the state."
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The Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans was flooded Wednesday. (photo: AP)
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