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<title><![CDATA[Sarah Kliff - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24038.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sarah Kliff]]></description><category domain="24038">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Very Committed to Taking Away Your Health Insurance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18282509/trump-obamacare-lawsuit-health-care</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Candidate Trump wanted to expand coverage. President Trump wants to slash it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Bill Makes Dangerous Changes to Federal Health Care]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16712430/senate-tax-bill-change-federal-health-care</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate tax bill is really a health care bill with major implications for more than 100 million Americans who rely on the federal government for their health insurance.The bill reaches into every major American health care program: Medicaid, Medicare, and the Obamacare marketplaces.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Won't Advertise Obamacare, So Obama Is Stepping In]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/11/1/16592274/obama-obamacare-video</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has generally stayed out of the spotlight since he left office. But earlier today he released a video announcing the start of Obamacare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s enrollment period and encouraging uninsured Americans to shop for coverage.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is What Obamacare Sabotage Looks Like]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/5/16240282/obamacare-sabotage-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Health and Human Services'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' announced'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Thursday it would cut the Obamacare sign-up budget by 72 percent. Advertising funding will fall from $100 million to $10 million for the 2018 enrollment season. In-person outreach dollars will decline from $62.5 million to $36 million.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is In Real Danger]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/6/12/15771872/obamacare-is-in-real-danger</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is How Obamacare Explodes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/1/15373372/obamacare-tennessee-zero-insurers</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[KNOXVILLE, Tennessee '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Kerry Reed spent the second week of April experimenting with canned corn and tortilla chips. Tacos were on the menu. She worked some of the corn products into them, just to see how her body would react. For now, anyway, she could still afford the treatment if...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is Getting More Popular by the Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/25/15419512/obamacare-poll-popular</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than a dozen recent polls have shown the Affordable Care Act becoming increasingly popular.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lessons of Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/15/14908524/obamacare-lessons-ahca-gop</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was strange circumstances Obama found himself in. He was leaving office an unusually popular president, with approval numbers nearing 60 percent. But his most important domestic achievement was imperiled. Republicans had spent years slamming Obamacare for high premiums, high...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Are Taking Back the Term 'Death Panels']]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/22/14700282/obamacare-death-panels-grassley</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley just can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t escape death panels. Back in 2009, the Iowa senator suggested that the Affordable Care Act might create something akin to a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'death panel,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' where the government decides which patients survive. In remarks at a town hall, he seemed to endorse the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obamacare Enrollees Voted for Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/13/13848794/kentucky-obamacare-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kathy Oller is so committed to her job signing up fellow Kentuckians for Obamacare that last Halloween, she dressed up as a cat, set up a booth at a trick-or-treat event, and urged people to get on the rolls. She'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s enrolled so many people in the past three years that she long ago...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Expert Explains What's Broken With Obamacare &amp; How to Fix It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/10/26/13408338/obamacare-broken-fixes</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Larry Levitt has been thinking about and analyzing the Affordable Care Act and its insurance marketplaces since before the ACA was law. So I reached out to him to make sense of the new data showing premiums will rise by an astonishing 22 percent next year. Levitt argues, convincingly,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obamacare Problem That Democrats Don't Want to Talk About]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2016/10/11/13189132/obamacare-problem-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A looming affordability challenge that the White House rarely discusses.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[EpiPen's 400% Hike Is What's Wrong with American Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2016/8/23/12608316/epipen-price-mylan</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States is certainly exceptional in this regard.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obamacare Failing?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12538934/is-obamacare-failing</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, health economists believed Obamacare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s soon-to-launch marketplaces would grow to replace much of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fractured, complex, employer-based health insurance system.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Predictions for the employer-sponsored insurance system'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s collapse ran rampant. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About the Gender Wage Gap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/12108126/gender-wage-gap-explained-real</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Women earn 79 cents on the dollar compared with men. But the gender wage gap is much, much more than one number.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Despite SCOTUS Decision, More Work Needed for Abortion Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/28/12043116/abortion-scotus-pro-life</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The abortion rights movement isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t winning.Sure, abortion rights advocates were justified in cheering the Supreme Court decision Monday striking down two Texas regulations: Those laws were among the most restrictive in the country and led to multiple clinic closures.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Big Insurer Is Quitting Obamacare. Why That Doesn't Spell Doom]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2016/4/29/11526424/obamacare-united-marketplaces</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare has suffered in headlines lately.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The country's largest insurer, UnitedHealth, is pulling out of the marketplace after losing $1 million on lower-than-expected enrollment. Another big health plan says the people that do sign up are too sick and expensive. All the while,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Individual Mandate Is Working]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2015/12/29/10678384/individual-mandate-obamacare-enrollment</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The individual mandate is among Obamacare's most hated provisions. About two in three of Americans think the requirement to buy health insurance is a bad idea.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But recent enrollment data shows that the mandate is working. The exact type of people the requirement was meant to target...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obamacare Premiums Are Rising in 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2015/12/14/9910650/obamacare-premiums-2016</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No matter how you slice the numbers, Obamacare premiums will rise significantly next year. The Obama administration estimates rates will rise 7.5 percent in 2016, compared with 2 percent in 2015.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Insurance markets are complicated. But the story of Obamacare's 2016 premium increase is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why People Who Have Obamacare Like It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2015/4/24/8485759/obamacare-sastisfaction-high</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare enrollees are more satisfied with their health insurance plans than those who get coverage outside the health law's marketplaces, a new survey finds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What U.S. Thinks of Abortion: It's Not So Black &amp; White]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/a/abortion-decision-statistics-opinions</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Abortion is killing a baby. But I'm not saying it's always wrong."This was the first thing David King told me when I called him in late March and asked him talk to me about his views on abortion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Americans Are Still Worried About Death Panels]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8273007/obamacare-poll-death-panels</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, they knew it wasn't popular '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' poll after poll showed pluralities, if not majorities, opposed to the legislation after the bruising national fight that led to its passage. But Democrats had a theory about the law: as time went...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next Democratic Health Care Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8082769/obamacare-democrats-priorities</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The architects of the Affordable Care Act got millions of Americans to sign up for coverage. Now they're quietly crafting the next Democratic health-care agenda: lowering costs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Vermont's Health Care Dream Fell Apart]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7427117/single-payer-vermont-shumlin</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Looks Terrible But Is Doing Great]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2014/12/5/7336807/obamacare-enrollment-costs</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Politically, Obamacare has had a terrible past few weeks. First there was inaccurate enrollment data (the administration wrongly included dental plans). Then there were Jon Gruber's comments on "the stupidity of American voters." And it was capped off with Sen. Chuck Schumer saying that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walmart Workers Lose Health Plans--&amp; It's Good News!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2014/10/7/6939057/walmart-drops-insurance-good-news</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Walmart, the world's largest retailer, announced Tuesday that it would no longer offer health insurance benefits to its 26,000 part-time workers.Nobody likes losing any kind of benefit at work. But for the particular Walmart workers in this case, the end of employer-sponsored insurance...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mystery of the Falling Teen Birth Rate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2014/8/20/5987845/the-mystery-of-the-falling-teen-birth-rate</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The staff of TeenWise, a Minneapolis-based non-profit, crunched the numbers for its annual report on Minnesota teenagers' sexual health. Their calculations seemed to show something unbelievable: the state's teen birth rate had a double-digit decline between 2009 and 2010.That seemed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pro-Life Movement Is Winning]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Monday's Hobby Lobby decision is part of a deeper trend: even as Obamacare worked to expand access to contraceptives, decisions by both the courts and state governments have left American women with less access to reproductive health care than they did four years ago.Since 2010, states...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Selling Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/2014/6/12/5785864/8-million-how-obamacare-met-its-enrollment-goal</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nobody needed to persuade Celia Maluf that that health insurance was a good idea. A 60-year-old pilates instructor and therapist living in Miami, she knew the peace of mind that came with the coverage she had during her last job, as a flight attendant. But in the nine years since she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Health Care Prices Are Totally Insane]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/cards/health-prices/america-is-getting-gouged-on-health-care-prices</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sarah Kliff</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nexium is a bright, purple pill that treats heartburn. It's the second best-selling drug in the United States right now. Americans spent $6.2 billion buying millions of Nexium prescriptions in 2013 alone.But we probably didn't have to: while Americans pay an average of $215 for a Nexium...]]></description>
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