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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the William Hicks Anderson Community Center, on July 28, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Mark Makela/Getty Images President Donald Trump has repeatedly made misleading comments on where former Vice President Joe Biden stands on the issues. Despite what…

Richard Wolf   | USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could have a major impact on the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, which will arrive at the Supreme Court one week after Election Day.The latest effort by Texas and 17 allied states to strike down the…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the East conference room at the Supreme Court building. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images For the first time in 27 years, high profile issues from abortion rights to health care will be devoid of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's judicial…

New Mexico Health Connections’ decision to close at year’s end will leave just three of the 23 nonprofit health insurance co-ops that sprang from the Affordable Care Act. One co-op serves customers in Maine, another in Wisconsin, and the third operates in Idaho and Montana and will move into Wyoming…

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Immigrants who were made US citizens in a naturalization process led by Trump on Tuesday did not know the president would be there.Some were also not aware that the ceremony would be aired as part of the Republican National Convention. Trump has faced fierce criticism from Democrats and ethics groups over…

If one issue dominated the Democratic presidential primaries this cycle, it was health care. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All proposal set a standard that other candidates vied to match while simultaneously striving to not commit to as generous a plan. Debate moderators asked endless variations of the same question: How…

Provided that the polling of late summer holds (a big “if” in presidential politics), on January 20 Joe Biden will—as a late bloomer on par with Grandma Moses—have finally achieved his life’s great ambition at age 78. As he moves into the Oval Office after his inaugural address and the…

Pennsylvania is rolling out its new “Pennie” this fall: a state-run insurance exchange that officials say will save residents collectively millions of dollars on next year’s health plan premiums. Since the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces opened for enrollment in fall 2013, Pennsylvania, like most states, has used the federal www.healthcare.gov…

Jason Lalljee USA TODAYPublished 11:54 AM EDT Aug 8, 2020President Donald Trump said Friday he will be pursuing an executive order requiring health insurers to cover all pre-existing conditions, a stipulation already made by the Affordable Care Act. "Over the next two weeks I’ll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to…