memeorandum: A Historic Health-Care Moment (Wall Street Journal)

9:25 AM ET, March 8, 2017

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Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan, Analysts Say — WASHINGTON — Millions of people who get private health coverage through the Affordable Care Act would be at risk of losing it under the replacement legislation proposed by House Republicans, analysts said Tuesday …

Discussion: Daily Kos, NPR, Washington Post, Axios, FiveThirtyEight, ABC News and Vox

New York Times:

How Republicans Plan to Ration Health Care — It looks as if Republicans want to bring back health care rationing. — In 2010, Mark Price, a 37-year-old resident of Goodyear, Ariz., was struggling to pay the bills for his leukemia treatment. His house was under foreclosure.

Discussion: Business Insider, AOL, TheBlaze and Slate

Wall Street Journal:

A Historic Health-Care Moment — The House plan isn't perfect, but it's the only reform opportunity Republicans will get. — The do-or-die moment for the Trump Administration and the GOP Congress arrived on Monday, as House Republicans rolled out their ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill.

Louis Nelson / Politico:

Sen. Cotton: House GOP moving ‘too quickly’ on Obamacare repeal — Republicans in the House of Representatives are “moving a little bit too quickly” to pass the first wave of legislation intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Tom Cotton said Wednesday morning.

Jeff Stein / Vox:
One tweet that explains Republicans' big health care bill challenge

Discussion: Salon, Washington Post, Politico, FiveThirtyEight, The Week, New York Times, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, ABC News, The Atlantic and Rewire

Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
The Republican Plan Is Even Worse Than Obamacare

Discussion: Instapundit, neo-neocon, RedState, Outside the Beltway, Hit & Run, Forbes, ACASignups.net, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Morning Consult, Vox, The Week and National Review

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is McConnell Rushing Through a Trumpcare Bill Everybody Hates?

Discussion: Salon, FiveThirtyEight, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Post, RedState, The Guardian, National Review and Talking Points Memo

Dan Mangan / CNBC:
10 million may lose health insurance coverage under GOP's Obamacare replacement plan, S&P says

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Daily Signal, NBC News, Washington Examiner, Political Wire, Hot Air and IJR

Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Can Trump Save the Republican Health-Care Bill?

Discussion: Axios, The Week, Business Insider and Real Clear Politics

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
G.O.P. Health Bill Faces Revolt From Conservative Forces

Wall Street Journal:

Rapport Between Donald Trump, Barack Obama Crumbles — Budding feud is new distraction in a Trump presidency that has been struggling to enact its agenda — The rapport between Barack Obama and Donald Trump is unraveling, with the president convinced that Mr. Obama is undermining …

Discussion: Breitbart, New York Magazine, AOL, Business Insider, The Week, Raw Story, Deadline, Washington Post, Snopes.com, Daily Kos, Sputnik International, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, FOX6Now.com and Politicus USA

Curt Mills / US News:

NSA Whistleblower Backs Trump Up on Wiretap Claims — Bill Binney, who resigned from NSA in 2001, did not elaborate on President Obama's specific role in surveilling Trump. — A veteran of the NSA has said President Donald Trump is righ to claim he was wiretapped and monitored. (ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES)

Discussion: The Last Tradition, CBS Philly, Instapundit, Salon, The Week and Bloomberg

D. Watkins / Salon:

Ben Carson's infinite fall from grace — If we use Ben Carson's logic on enslaved “immigrants,” Frederick Douglass made it big after a plantation internship — “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, who worked even longer, even harder, for less.”

Discussion: Raw Story

Bre Payton / The Federalist:
11 Times Barack Obama Compared Slaves To Immigrants

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T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Ben Carson's immigrant/slave speech is remarkably similar to an address Obama gave last year

Discussion: Hot Air

Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Sorry Ben Carson Critics: Obama Also Referred to Slaves as Immigrants

Discussion: ABC News, twitchy.com and TMZ.com

CNN:

Trump warns House GOP members of electoral ‘bloodbath’ if repeal and replace fails — Trump ‘proud to support’ GOP health care plan — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump warned House Republicans Tuesday if they can't get pass health care legislation after seven years of promises it could be a …

Discussion: Political Wire and Politico

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Ann Coulter Wants to Know Who Wrote ‘This Piece of Crap Obamacare Replacement Bill’

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze and RedState

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus members say GOP doesn't have votes to pass healthcare plan

Discussion: Politico, New York Magazine, Business Insider and Political Wire

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump begins healthcare push: 'Let's get it done'

Discussion: Politico, Washington Examiner, Hot Air and RedState

Samantha Cooney / TIME:

Meet the Organizers Behind the Upcoming Worldwide Women's Strike — 'Nobody else will defend our rights if we don't do it' — Women across the country are going on strike. — On Wednesday — International Women's Day — some women will take the day off from their jobs and household responsibilities …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Vox, Politico, The Root, Washington Post, CBS Boston, The Guardian, The Federalist, New Republic, CNN, WLNS-TV, Associated Press, Balloon Juice, NBC News, NPR and Hot Air, more at Mediagazer »

Valentina Zarya / Fortune:
A Brief But Fascinating History of International Women's Day

Discussion: The Week

Susan Miller / USA Today:
A Day Without a Woman: What you need to know

Discussion: Fox News, USA TODAY College, Detroit Free Press, Shakesville and LifeNews.com

Los Angeles Times:

Garcetti wins reelection in landslide as City Council incumbents prevail — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti won reelection Tuesday in what appeared to be one of the biggest landslides in the city's history, crushing 10 little-known rivals and strengthening his standing for a potential run for higher office.

Discussion: Political Wire, The Week, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and KTLA

abc11.com:

FRANKLIN COUNTY TEEN WHO DECAPITATED MOTHER IN COUNTRY ILLEGALLY … <iframe width="476" height="267" src="http://abc11.com/video/embed/ ?pid=1789353" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> — FRANKLIN COUNTY, North Carolina (WTVD) — The Franklin County District Attorney said Tuesday …

Discussion: WNCN, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, myfox8.com and The Gateway Pundit

John Binder / Breitbart:
Illegal Immigrant Teen Beheaded His Mother, Say Police

Discussion: BizPac Review

Judy Kurtz / The Hill:

Ivanka Trump clothing line reports record sales — Ivanka Trump's eponymous women's fashion line is reporting record sales figures despite calls for a boycott and controversies surrounding President Trump. — “Since the beginning of February, they were some of the best performing weeks …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com

Susan Page / USA Today:

USA TODAY Poll: Tweets and temperament are tripping up President Trump — WASHINGTON — President Trump gets high marks for leadership amid growing economic optimism, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, but questions about his temperament and his tweets have cost him the political boost …

Discussion: Political Wire

Twin Cities:

Son of Sen. Tim Kaine one of six arrested after protesters disrupt Trump rally at state Capitol Saturday — The youngest son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's 2016 running mate, was one of six people arrested Saturday after counter-protesters disrupted a rally in support of President Donald Trump at the Minnesota State Capitol.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

Trump Grants Oval Office Meeting to TMZ Founder — Since Inauguration Day, President Trump has spent his time meeting with heads of state, titans of industry, economic advisers and public health specialists. — And the founder of TMZ. — Mr. Trump, in a meeting last Wednesday …

Discussion: The Week and LAist, more at Mediagazer »

Paulina Firozi / The Hill:

Ex-CIA director: When Trump tweets unproven allegations, it ‘weakens the office of the presidency’ … Former CIA director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta raised concerns Tuesday that President Trump's allegation that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower prior to the presidential election “weakens” his office.

Jake Sherman / Politico:

NEW REALITY with OBAMACARE replacement — New POLITICO/Morning Consult poll: voters want a special prosecutor to probe Russia-Trump ties — PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: Tory Burch — DRIVING THE DAY — TRUMP SPEAKS — @realDonaldTrump at 6:12 a.m.: “I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles …

Discussion: Morning Consult and Political Wire

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Tinder Select is a secret, members-only version of the app — Tinder has been operating a members-only version of the platform called Tinder Select, which is meant to serve only the elite users on the app, including CEOs, super models, and other hyper-attractive/upwardly affluent types.

Discussion: Sputnik International, Mashable, Engadget, The Verge, Axios, The Week and New York Magazine

Laura Jarrett / CNN:

Hawaii plans to file first lawsuit against new travel ban — Trump's new travel ban: One thing to know — Lawyers for the challengers say the new travel ban suffers from the same “constitutional and statutory defects” as the original one — (CNN)Hawaii is not wasting any time challenging President Donald Trump's new travel ban.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Week, TheBlaze and Politicus USA