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Right-wing media have seized on a study of Medicaid recipients to attack the program by focusing on certain parts of the findings while health care experts point out that the program successfully expanded access to care and eased health-related financial problems, the primary focus of Medicaid. In 2008, the state of Oregon held a lottery to expand Medicaid coverage to 10,000 people. Because the selection was random, researchers began a controlled study on how the coverage affected the participants.

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The Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times failed to connect the American Legislative Exchange Council model legislation to the current efforts to change the pension plans of Floridians. Ashley Lopez of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting highlighted a piece in The Palm Beach Post that had a lengthy description of ALEC’s role in the process to overhaul the state’s pension system: Critics trace the campaign back two years — to New Orleans, where dozens of Florida lawmakers gathered for a conference hosted by a controversial advocacy group that helps corporations and conservative interest groups write bills for legislatures across the country. Jonathan Williams, a policy director for the American Legislative Exchange Council, told The Palm Beach Post that the organization’s three days of meetings in August 2011 helped affirm the need among many legislators to take a hard look at public employee benefits

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A new study out of Stanford University, scheduled to be published in the journal Energy Policy , argues that New York State can eliminate fossil fuels from its energy mix entirely by 2050. Written by Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A

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The U-T San Diego editorial board hyped a court decision that would benefit a project to expand the San Diego Convention Center but never noted that the paper’s owner, Douglas Manchester, has a financial interest in the convention center’s development. A March 11 editorial by the U-T San Diego called for the expansion project to “move forward as quickly as possible,” now that the plans to finance it — including a controversial hotel-room tax — have been validated by Superior Court Judge Ronald S.

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Karl Rove has recently used his various media platforms to sing the praises of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and tout his role in the brewing debate over immigration reform.

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Multiple Fox News personalities have suggested the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Standard & Poor’s is ‘political retribution,’ either papering over or outright ignoring the facts behind the suit. However, the S&P investigation began well before U.S

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Ohio media reporting on Gov. John Kasich’s (R) new education funding plan neglected to inform readers that the plan funnels millions of dollars in increased spending to private schools and charter schools whose operators have donated millions in campaign contributions to Kasich and Republicans in the state legislature.  The Akron Beacon Journal   reported  on the Kasich plan’s significant enrichment of private school operators and the charter school management industry (emphasis added): The $8.5 million expansion in the first year represents a 7 percent increase in allocations for vouchers. Based on the average voucher cost of $5,997, the additional funding could afford scholarships for more than 2,800 children by the end of the budget cycle in 2015

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When the Dodd-Frank financial reform law first passed, Senate Republicans refused to confirm a director for the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They promised to block any nominee — regardless of that nominee’s qualifications for the job — unless the Bureau was weakened and made subservient to the same bank regulators who failed to prevent the 2008 financial crisis. President Obama was thus forced to recess appoint Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to be the Bureau’s first director.

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Post contains mild spoilers for Django Unchained , especially if you somehow missed the news that Django kills everybody. Two of the most challenging movies I saw last year came in December: Django Unchained , and Killing Them Softly .

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Ted Nugent called for the suspension of the right to vote for “any American who is on welfare” as part of his proposal to reduce federal budget deficits outlined in his  latest  Washington Times  column . The National Rifle Association board member also called for “slaughtering the three sacred entitlement cows” of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and called for tax increases on “the nearly 50 percent of Americans who pay zero federal income taxes.” Nugent wrote that these policies should be instituted “before taxes are raised on the producers, which will further choke the economy.” Nugent  frequently   attacks  Americans who receive public assistance, whom he has termed “gluttonous, soulless pigs.” From Nugent’s  column : The three sacred entitlement cows in the room that no politician wants to poke are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

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