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"The Earth is not dying. It is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses."

"Of course we know the Iraqis have weapons of mass destruction. We have the receipts."

"House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) says Obamacare is in a 'death spiral,' and he should know: He's the one who cut the power to Obamacare's engines and pointed its nose downward."

— Dana Milbank

Obamacare isn't failing. It's being destroyed by Republicans — Dana Milbank | The Washington Post

" ... The Affordable Care Act may or may not be in the death spiral Republicans have long craved, but it has definitely deteriorated since the Trump administration and the new GOP Congress assumed power. And no wonder: They sabotaged it. ..."

" ... If it's really true that the ACA is doomed to collapse, then even a bad replacement looks pretty good. But the CBO is saying that it isn't doomed to collapse. That the instability in the marketplaces we saw in 2016 is a one-time adjustment and the markets will stabilize soon even without policy change. Which means that if the law manages to survive, in a year or so, the Trump administration will likely be able to claim they fixed it. ..."

Obamacare Isn't in a 'Death Spiral.' (Its Replacement Probably Won't Be Either.) — Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz | The New York Times

" ... Growing evidence suggests that the markets, despite their problems, are far from collapse. Because of how the current subsidies work, people were generally shielded from this year's higher prices, and enrollment has remained steady. Several recent analyses argue that this year's increase was a market correction, and that a smoother market would follow in the years ahead. ..."

Is Obamacare in a 'death spiral' or just in need of important reforms? — Jennifer Rubin | The Washington Post

" ... there are real problems with the ACA and with Medicaid (Why should the poor get a card stigmatizing them as Medicaid recipients and limiting their choice of doctors rather than private insurance?). The picture of immediate doom and gloom painted by the Republicans is not, however, accurate in our view. That was the Congressional Budget Office's conclusion as well: ..."

Republicans discover the ticking bomb that is U.S. health insurance — Konrad Yakabuski | The Globe and Mail

" ... Besides, the hard right of the party is against state involvement in the health market, period. Libertarian senators such as Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas favour a clean repeal of the Obamacare law – with no replacement. These advocates of 'personal responsibility' are echoed, more crassly, by the likes of Kansas congressman Roger Marshall, who declared that poor Americans 'just don't want health care and aren't going to take care of themselves.'..."

The Big Bang Theory has officially started its death spiral — Stuart Heritage | The Guardian

" ... You can see why Young Sheldon got the green light. It's about a wildly popular character from a wildly popular show. It'll probably be set in the 1980s, so it'll come with the warm glow of nostalgia. It was created by the same executive producers who came up with its parent show. And the first episode is being directed by none other than Jon Favreau. Nothing is being left to chance here, which means it's a shame that Young Sheldon will be awful and nobody will watch it and it'll go down in history as a Joey-level disaster. ..."

Whoops. Wrong death spiral.