Foreign Policy Blogging at OTB

I’ve just published a foreign policy-related post at Outside the Beltway:

One Month?

A report has been produced saying that Iran is one month from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.

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  • jan Link

    It’s like standing on the tracks and watching a train streaking right at you, as you look at your watch wondering how long it will take to speed over the spot you’re standing on. Splat!

    Everyone seems motionless, though, in avoiding the inevitable. The only recourse I see this administration taking is to reduce sanctions against Iran in order to demonstrate good faith and friendship with Hassan Rouhani — kind of a follow-up to that hyped photographed phone call between the two leaders.

  • jan Link

    O/T

    People have been referring to a better rollout of Obamacare in state-based health insurance programs, than the ones managed federally. However, even here there are problems rearing their heads because of a medicaid enrollment spike being a threat to the Obamacare structure. In other words the breakdown of numbers, in those enrollment figures, shows a lopsidedness developing between a majority signing up for low to free medicaid, rather than the costlier independent insurance company exchanges. Oops!

    As the Obamacare website struggles, the administration is emphasizing state-level success. President Obama said Monday, “There’s great demand at the state level as well. Because there are a bunch of states running their own marketplaces.”

    But left unsaid in the president’s remarks: the newly insured in some of those states are overwhelmingly low-income people signing up for Medicaid at no cost to them.

    CBS News has confirmed that in Washington, of the more than 35,000 people newly enrolled, 87 percent signed up for Medicaid. In Kentucky, out of 26,000 new enrollments, 82 percent are in Medicaid. And in New York, of 37,000 enrollments, Medicaid accounts for 64 percent. And there are similar stories across the country in nearly half of the states that run their own exchanges.

    When hasn’t “free” been more tempting and popular than paying for something?

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