From the perspective of the more than 150 million Americans, health care costs may, in fact, be wide...

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From the perspective of the more than 150 million Americans, health care costs may, in fact, be
widening inequality. When health insurance premiums go up, employers may reduce take-home pay
to keep overall compensation in check.
The CDC figures are consistent with four independent surveys that also show significant gains in
health coverage in 2014, particularly among states that have adopted health reform's Medicaid
expansion.
Matt Broaddus
Research Analyst, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
America's 75 million boomers are about to become our largest-ever retirement generation. And as
they migrate into their later years, health will be the ultimate retirement wildcard. For many, health
and health care expenses will be the difference between a retirement filled with opportunity,
independence, and financial security, or a retirement diminished by worry.
Tens of millions of people had been living with the fear that if they lost their jobs, they would also
lose their health insurance. This would be a big deal for most families but especially those in which
one or more family members had a serious health condition. Insurers do not like to insure sick
people. The ACA changed that.
Dean Baker
Co-director, CEPR; author, 'The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive'
Ever so tentatively, it feels like a new day is dawning here in the Show-Me state -- a day in which
many residents are challenging their local and state police around basic law enforcement
procedures.
When many people hear child poverty in America, the first stereotype is an inner-city child. But in a
nation where over 16 million children, more than one in five, are poor, the truth is that child poverty
affects children everywhere, although we know it affects urban, suburban, and rural children in
some ways differently.
One of the enigmas of our political landscape is the impoverished Republican. This is the American
with very little money, and many unmet needs, who nevertheless votes for people and policies that
will deny him or her assistance. Indeed, many of the reddest states in the nation are among the
largest beneficiaries of government aid.
Wray Herbert
Author, 'On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits'
Though some American Catholics imagine that being 'pro-life' means, and only means, being anti-

2. abortion, such a use of the term distorts and misrepresents what it means for the Catholic Church.
So here I am, 26 and paying out-of-pocket nearly more than I make in a week because a leading
insurance provider, on an expensive Gold-Level plan, cannot give me the medication I need. In a
country priding itself on innovation, we're doing a hell of a job making sure our young adults can
take the risks necessary to push our country forward.
Ever since three-judge panels on the Fourth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit issued conflicting rulings in
July on the availability of tax credits under the ACA, opponents of the law have been trying to rush
their case to the SCOTUS. Thanks to an Order just issued by the full D.C. Circuit, the chances of
getting the case in getting there just got a lot lower.
It's time to demand more of the relationship between technology and health. It should be interactive
and personalized, and it should leave you feeling empowered, not anxious. As we learn more about
the deleterious effects of stress on our health, ensuring peace of mind - across all facets of health
care delivery -- should be of paramount concern.
How did Africa's health systems come to be so weak? Didn't the United States and other major
donors just spend billions of dollars on global health in Africa?
We must learn from responses to such epidemics in the past if we are to succeed today. Such lessons
will be difficult to craft, requiring expertise in culture as well as medicine, but need to be integral
parts of our global response.
Robert Klitzman, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program, Columbia University;
author, 'Am I My Genes?'
The challenge of providing health care and education to 1.8 billion youth, of teaching 175 million
people to read a sentence, might seem daunting or even impossible. But look how far we've come.
One can blame a press that treats Congressional malfunction as a bipartisan failure, but the
overriding fact remains that while one side has been actively and knowledgeably waging a civil war,
the other has been acting as if the war did not exist.
It is a given that actions against ISIL and Russia will be undertaken, and each has that ring of
"prolonged" to it that indicates it will require both patience and financing.