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Article snippet: The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen. Has this series exposed you to new ideas? Tell us how. Email us at ourpicks@nytimes.com. • Jonah Goldberg in National Review: “Would people die? Despite a host of very specific numbers from people like Senator Bernie Sanders, no one really knows.” Mr. Goldberg takes issue with a talking point that has emerged on the left regarding the Senate health care bill’s cuts to Medicaid: The cuts will lead to people dying. Rhetoric suggesting that “elected leaders are murderers if they dare pare back the welfare state” is both hypocritical and dangerous, he says. “The truth,” he concludes, “is that health-care ‘reform’ has been a story of bipartisan malpractice.” Read more » _____ • Guy Benson in Townhall: “It’s perverse that the federal government provides a more generous funding formula for Medicaid’s better-off, better-situated expansion enrollees than the original, neediest population for whom Medicaid was supposedly created in the first place.” Mr. Benson points out that under the Republican plan, states would once again be able to concentrate government dollars to the poorest people and make Medicaid “fiscally sustainable.” He goes on to say that, under the Affordable Care Act, life expectancy has decreased. If Repu... Link to the full article to read more