Obamacare

The future of the Affordable Care Act dominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing and will be one of the first big cases the newly seated justice hears.The challenge from several Republican-led states to the constitutionality of the ACA, also known as “Obamacare,” has immense practical implications – roughly 20…

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President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath to her on the South Lawn of the White House White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Want the best of VICE News straight…

Published October 28, 2020 12:23am By LAWRENCE HURLEY Reuters WASHINGTON - Newly confirmed conservative US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces a barrage of politically fraught cases in her first days on the job, as the court weighs election disputes and prepares to hear a challenge to the 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…