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HuffPost correspondent Cohn ( Sick) delivers an engrossing behind-the-scenes account of the fight to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Drawing on interviews with President Obama and other key players, Cohn illustrates how the compromises needed to pass the legislation (namely, the abandonment of the public option) left progressive advocates unsatisfied and led to Medicare for All becoming a central issue of the 2020 Democratic primary. Cohn also sketches the history of healthcare as a political cause, noting that President Nixon was open to universal coverage in the 1970s, and that conser...

Trying to undo the election. now, the facts of the impeachment are what they are. it seems poised each day the democrats seem closer and closer to moving ahead with impeachment but, chris, i haven't seen anything yet. maybe tonight's kentucky results will be a data point that the senate republican conference all of a sudden weighs in a different way here. to this dant i haven't seen anything that shows me 20 republican senators are about to bail on the president and join democrats in trying to remove the president. >> and beshear didn't even talk about it. >> democrats won in 2018 by raising h...

How to get to a shared goal, universal coverage, without dismissing those who disagree as small thinkers or not willing to take on a challenge. i think medicare for all is a perfect example. the fact is the vast majority of democratic voters believe that protecting and defending the affordable care act is the best way to expand health coverage in this country. i think the election results last night bore that out too. you had a candidate in kentucky who made an aggressive case for expanding the affordable care act. joe biden makes the argument to expanding medicare for the middle class and pas...

Health care in the united states? we keep hearing about how they do things over there in the rest of the world. is this true? no two countries handle it the same way. what can we learn from other nations? this week "the new york times" impanelled health care experts and tasked them with the different nations approaches. which one would you pick? canada, britain, singapore, germany, france, australia, and the u.s. all offer universal coverage, but some rely heavily on the government, others on private insurers, others in between. we often hear about britain and canada. between those two the exp...