Obamacare

This year, Americans’ access to health care took the spotlight like never before.Since March, more than 250,000 people infected by the coronavirus have died and millions more have lost their health insurance in the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.During the presidential campaign, both President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe…

The Affordable Care Act is back before the U.S. Supreme Court in the latest of dozens of attacks against the law by conservatives fighting what they now perceive to be a government takeover of health care. Yet, in an odd twist of history, it was Newt Gingrich, one of the…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Of any state, California has the most to lose if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act. Health care coverage for millions of people is at stake, as are billions in federal dollars. Yet Democratic California leaders don’t have a plan to preserve the broad…

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could determine the fate of the Affordable Care Act. The latest challenge to the legality of the ACA, which comes via Texas, confronts two main legal questions. First, is the so-called individual mandate, which requires most Americans to purchase…

(CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts twice saved Obamacare, and he appears ready to uphold it again. But Roberts is growing weary of it all. His message to the many parties represented at the court on Tuesday was essentially: Just stop.Stop asking the justices to do the work of Congress. Stop pulling…

One of the strongest signs that the Affordable Care Act will survive the latest attempt to kill it in the Supreme Court came on Tuesday, in oral arguments in California v. Texas, when Justice Brett Kavanaugh began questioning Kyle Hawkins, the solicitor general of Texas. Hawkins was arguing that a…

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.The Supreme Court appeared ready to leave the Affordable Care Act largely intact for the third time on Tuesday, dashing Republicans’ latest bid to tear down the health care program that has insured millions of Americans.The high court…

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with whether all of Obamacare should be thrown out in a challenge by the Republican-governed states, backed by President Donald Trump’s administration, with two conservative justices suggesting the law should remain intact even if one provision is struck down. The justices heard about…

A decision in the third major Affordable Care Act case is expected by June 2021.November 10, 2020, 6:43 PM• 8 min readWith health coverage for millions of Americans on the line, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh signaled Tuesday that they’re inclined to uphold the majority of the…

The Supreme Court mostly stayed out of the spotlight during the frenzied week after Election Day. But on Tuesday, the justices are hearing a case that could upend the country’s health care system in the midst of a pandemic and leave tens of millions of people without health insurance. In…