<![CDATA[ - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/rss/archive/17232.xml Author <![CDATA[Big Health Companies: Obamacare Is Working]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600 If getting rid of Obamacare is such a good idea, why isn't corporate America getting behind King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court case designed to demolish the Affordable Care Act? More than 52 different parties have weighed in with briefs in advance of oral arguments on March 4. Of those, 21 have been filed on behalf of the plaintiffs, who claim millions of Obamacare consumers are receiving illegal health insurance subsidies. The groups filing these briefs include libertarian think tanks, pro-life organizations, Christian legal shops, and some conservative Republican legislators. But not a single business group—not the US Chamber of Commerce, not any of the health industry companies...]]> <![CDATA[Florida Wakes From Tea Party Binge]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600 At 4:30, a security guard opens the doors to let the patients in out of the drizzle. Dozens of them soon fill rows of metal chairs in the lobby. They are anxious and ailing, but also chatty as they munch on the cookies offered up by the volunteer clinic manager. Many have multiple medical issues going wholly or partly untreated. Rios is here for "private" problems as well as back pain, arthritis in her knees, and bursitis in her shoulder that forced her to quit working in September when she could no longer lift the trays she helped prepare for an airline food company. As Sofia translates, Rios explains that she has been in Florida for 16 years but has never had health insurance. She...]]> <![CDATA[The Tea Party's ObamaCare Hail Mary]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600 <![CDATA[ObamaCare Is A Success]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Will the Health Law Kill White Castle?]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500 In early July, Jamie Richardson, the vice president of the famous burger chain White Castle, told a congressional committee that Obamacare will devastate the home of the "original slider."

Richardson's testimony was the latest move in a long campaign against health care reform. In recent years, White Castle has warned that President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act will increase its health care costs by 20 percent or more in 2014, halving its profits and preventing it from expanding access to its delicious fare. Conservative media outlets and politicians have eagerly rushed to White Castle's ramparts: House Speaker John Boehner, a lifelong slider fan, warned in 2010 that...]]> <![CDATA[Mitt Has No Game With Women Voters]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Mitt Romney has a particular effect on voters of the opposite sex—and it's not a good one. During the heated final days of the GOP primary, female Republicans in many states favored Rick Santorum. Romney's dismal luck with the ladies was more apparent in April, when, according to a Washington Post poll, he was trailing President Barack Obama among women voters by 19 percentage points. Romney's female appeal hasn't improved much in the past month. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released this week still puts him 15 points behind Obama.

]]> <![CDATA[Conservatives Are Gunning for Holder]]> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600 Tea party activists, gun-rights fanatics, and others on the right have recently stepped up their calls for President Obama to fire Attorney General Eric Holder over his handling of the Operation Fast and Furious gun scandal. They've persuaded 52 members of Congress, a couple of senators, and many GOP presidential candidates to call for his ouster. Mitt Romney joined the chorus over the weekend, telling reporters in New Hampshire, "Either Mr. Holder himself should resign or the president should ask for his resignation or remove him…It's unacceptable for him to continue in that position, given the fact that he has misled Congress and entirely botched the investigation of the Fast...]]> <![CDATA[The Shocking Poverty Stats]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500 It's no secret that the economy is in rough shape—but the latest poverty figures released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday are nonetheless shocking. The overall poverty rate has reached a record high and the number of people living in deep poverty—that is, below 50 percent of the poverty level, or $11,000 for a family of four—is the highest its been since 1975. Experts are predicting that things are only going to get worse in the years to come. (Scroll down to see the data.)

Some more lowlights: Median income has sunk lower than it was almost 15 years ago. The number of people living without health insurance is up slightly. The number of kids under the age of six...]]>