Obamacare

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…

Barrett says nation’s top judicial body ‘can’t control’ whether president obeys its decisions Trump, who is facing criminal investigation in New York, has said he has ‘absolute power’ to pardon himself Published: 2:12am, 15 Oct, 2020 Updated: 2:30am, 15 Oct, 2020 Read More

Supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was questioned by Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris over the Affordable Care Act, known popularly as Obamacare, during day two of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing. Barrett made the claim that she was not aware of Donald Trump’s campaign promise to appoint justices…

Kamala Harris delivered a blistering rebuke of Republican efforts to tear down healthcare and abortion access as she grilled Amy Coney Barrett, prompting the supreme court nominee to make the unbelievable claim that she was not aware of Donald Trump’s campaign promise to appoint justices who would dismantle Obamacare. Speaking…

In her first day of questioning from senators, Supreme Court nominee Amy Comey Barrett wouldn’t say how she would rule on abortion cases. Or Obamacare cases. Or gun rights cases. Or really anything else. She wouldn’t even say how she would rule if President Trump tried to move the election…

The Supreme Court is set to hear the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act on November 10. With judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the bench, Democrats quickly speculated what it could mean for healthcare. If Obamacare is struck down and there is no alternative plan in place, millions…

After 10 years of fighting the Affordable Care Act and against all evidence, Republicans are suddenly downplaying the threat that a Supreme Court case advanced by their own party could pose to the law. Their stated confidence in the future of Obamacare and its health care protections for millions of…

Judge Amy Coney Barrett said unequivocally during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing Tuesday that she has not promised President Donald Trump or anyone that she would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if confirmed — despite Democrats’ repeated insistence that she will. Democrats have repeatedly claimed Barrett plans…