Obamacare

The United States, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in world history, is also number one in COVID-19 infections and deaths. As White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Deborah Birx warned last weekend, "It is extraordinarily widespread. It's into the rural as equal urban areas. To everybody who lives in a…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is still trying to overturn “Obamacare,” but his predecessor’s health care law keeps gaining ground in places where it was once unwelcome.Missouri voters this week approved Medicaid expansion by a 53 percent to 47 percent margin, making the conservative state the seventh to do so…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is still trying to overturn “Obamacare,” but his predecessor’s health care law keeps gaining ground in places where it was once unwelcome.Missouri voters this week approved Medicaid expansion by a 53% to 47% margin, making the conservative state the seventh to do so under…

Like many Republicans in office today, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) came to power in the Barack Obama era by running against the president’s signature health-care law. Today, those Republicans are confronting a difficult political environment in which their dogged efforts to kill the Affordable Care Act may have, in fact, made…

The new Republican coronavirus relief bill is abominable. From the earliest days of the pandemic, experts have insisted on closing America’s workplaces and offering workers and businesses financial support until the virus has been brought under control. But Republicans have been preoccupied with the idea that measures like the expansion…

Like Moloch, the ancient pagan god, Donald Trump is ever ready to demand that Americans sacrifice themselves for his greater good. He commanded that states open up early, and then this happened: Arizona, Florida, and Texas are looking like Wuhan redux. Come this fall, the president also expects that parents…

Richard Wolf USA TODAYPublished 3:15 PM EDT Jul 8, 2020WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that employers with religious or moral objections do not have to help provide insurance coverage for contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act.The ruling seeks to end a longstanding battle by the Little Sisters of the Poor and other…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to give the nation's employers more leeway in refusing to provide free birth control for their workers under the Affordable Care Act.The ruling is a victory for the administration's plan to greatly expand the kinds…

WASHINGTON — Six days after President Donald Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare, voters in deeply red Oklahoma effectively voted to embrace the law by adopting its Medicaid expansion.The narrow victory for Obamacare came in a state that Trump won by 36 points in 2016, highlighting a…

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma voters narrowly decided on Tuesday to expand Medicaid health insurance to tens of thousands low-income residents, becoming the first state to amend its Constitution to do so.With 100% of precincts reporting unofficial results, State Question 802 passed by 1 percentage point, 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent,…