Obamacare

The Supreme Court was eager to revoke reproductive rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in part so that Republican governors and legislatures would be free to come up with ever-more-draconian methods to force pregnant people to give birth against their will. Red states have answered the call and…

This article first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Joe Guarino rescued an entire industry with help from what some called “divine” intervention. A little-known lobbyist from Virginia, Guarino was…

The FBI has accused a Christian ministry offering an Obamacare alternative of embezzling $4 million from participants who were left with unpaid medical bills. According to CBN News, the ministry Medical Cost Sharing (MCS) failed to deliver on its promise to cover its members' medical bills in exchange for a…

WASHINGTON — A record 16.3 million people sought health insurance through the Affordable Care Act this year, double the number covered when the marketplaces first launched nearly a decade ago, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. More than 3 million new members joined the marketplace, also known as “Obamacare,” according to…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The national uninsurance rate for adults under age 65 with schizophrenia decreased by 50% after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst research published this week in JAMA Psychiatry. Also known as Obamacare, the health care reform…

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Greg Nash The Internal Revenue Service Building is seen in Washington, D.C. House Republicans kicked off the 118th session of Congress by fulfilling a campaign pledge to defund the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), seemingly in order to undermine the agency’s ability to audit the complex tax filings of millionaires and…

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Click here for a transcript of the episode. Health coverage generally does not cover dental work. But Susan Rice of Atlanta should have been the exception: She was hit by a speeding car, causing extensive damage to her own “grill.” She’s been…

Barack Obama probably has a lot of good stories about Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, who announced, in a speech on the floor of the chamber on Thursday, that she would not seek a leadership role in the next Congress. One of them, which Obama told in his…

Sunshine plans an aggressive clinic opening schedule in rural and suburban areas along with franchising. Sunshine Care Virtual Clinics and SunshineCare.Online are companies created from the result of prior ObamaCare Innovation Grant Programs designed to help create and improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare expenses. Press Release - Oct 24,…