Obamacare

WASHINGTON: The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is expected on Monday to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, as the next justice to the Supreme Court, a move that will tilt the country's highest court further to the right for years to come. No nominee to the Supreme Court has…

“By tomorrow night,” Mitch McConnell told Senate Republicans on Sunday, after they voted to limit debate and advance the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, “we’ll have a new member of the United States supreme court. “A lot of what we’ve done over the last four years will be undone sooner…

President Trump and 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden sparred over their respective health care plans during Thursday night's debate. Biden pitched an updated version of former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as ObamaCare, and he called it BidenCare. "What I'm going to do is pass ObamaCare with…

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden touted his "Bidencare" plan to create a government-run insurance option Thursday as President Donald Trump defended his push to eliminate the Affordable Care Act and craft a "beautiful" alternative."What I'm going to do is pass Obamacare with a public option — becomes 'Bidencare,'"…

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden described President Donald Trump as "a very confused guy" when the president falsely claimed Biden supports "socialized medicine" during Thursday's debate.  "He thinks he's running against somebody else. He's running against Joe Biden. I beat all those other people because I disagreed with them," said…

Posted October 21, 2020 at 5:21pmA group of Senate Democrats is calling on the Trump administration to withdraw its support from a lawsuit challenging the 2010 health care law, even as the likely confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court threatens their case. The 20 Democrats, led by…

SAN ANTONIO — Larisa Alvarado, 36, feared she had the coronavirus when she woke up last week feeling an itch and pain in her leg that later advanced to swelling. She began running a fever and became nauseous.A friend and poison control expert suggested her symptoms could be from a…

Former President Barack Obama participates in a town hall meeting at the Orange County Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., March 18, 2009. (Larry Downing/Reuters ) Prohibitive costs placed coverage outside the reach of everyday Americans, including countless with preexisting conditions. President Trump’s recent executive order laying out…

In their two days of interrogating Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats deftly executed Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s messaging strategy: “Health care, health care, health care.” Over and over, they skewered Republicans for, as typified by Senator Kamala Harris, “scrambling to confirm this nominee because they…

As healthcare plays an increasingly prominent role in the closing days of the 2020 election, Republicans are trying to raise doubts in voters’ minds that a GOP-backed lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to strike the entire Affordable Care Act will actually succeed.Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s third nominee to…