Jonathan Cohn

Senior Editor of New Republic

Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic, a columnist at Kaiser Health News, and the author of “Sick.” He has been called “one of the nation’s leading experts on health care policy” (Washington Post) and “one of the best health care writers out there” (New York Times); he has also won the Sidney Hillman and Harry Chapin media awards. A graduate of Harvard, he is a senior fellow at Demos and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Debates Featuring Jonathan Cohn

Repeal Obamacare

With Jonathan Cohn, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John Shadegg, Paul Starr

January 11, 2011

In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act, the biggest overhaul of our health care system in decades. According to a November poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 40 percent of the public would like Congress to expand the new health reform law or leave it as is, while 49 percent are in favor of repealing all or parts of it. Can the new law reduce the deficit and expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans,…