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published May 9th 2017, 3:38 pm, by Sahil Kapur (Bloomberg) —Republican senators said it’s unclear whether their chamber will repeal all of the taxes imposed under Obamacare as they set aside the health-care bill passed by the House and prepare to write their own from scratch. “That’s hard to say

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published Feb 26th 2017, 9:00 am, by Albert R. Hunt (Bloomberg View) — President Donald Trump’s initial address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night may be the most anticipated in memory. Not, as Trump would claim, because he’s so compelling. Rather it’s because, when it comes to substance,

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published Aug 29th 2016, 12:16 pm, by Megan McArdle (Bloomberg View) — The last few weeks have featured a great deal of news for Obamacare, most of it bad. Insurers are pulling out of the exchanges and premiums are rising. Coverage has been expanded, but it increasingly looks as if

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05 Feb 2016 07:53 (Bloomberg View) — Shkreli, etc. The system for pricing prescription drugs in the U.S. is a bit of a disaster. Our reliance on medical insurance means that pricing is not based on consumer demand or ability to pay. Nor is it exactly based on negotiations with

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