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Supreme Court allows religious exemption for employers opposed to contraceptives Obamacare

Supreme Court allows religious exemption for employers opposed to contraceptives

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…
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July 8, 2020
Trump’s trying to end Obamacare but there’s emerging evidence it could undo him Obamacare

Trump’s trying to end Obamacare but there’s emerging evidence it could undo him

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…
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July 3, 2020
By a 1 percent margin, Oklahoma voters expand Medicaid to low-income residents Obamacare

By a 1 percent margin, Oklahoma voters expand Medicaid to low-income residents

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,…
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July 1, 2020
COVID pandemic is no time to ask the Supreme Court to kill Obamacare Obamacare

COVID pandemic is no time to ask the Supreme Court to kill Obamacare

opinionThe Editorial Board USA TODAYPublished 7:15 PM EDT Jun 30, 2020It is not hard to see the cruelty and incompetence in President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic: his repeated efforts to downplay the significance of COVID-19, his badgering of state leaders trying to act responsibly, his refusal to wear a mask in public,…
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July 1, 2020
Dems push election-season health care bill toward House OK Obamacare

Dems push election-season health care bill toward House OK

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed a package expanding “Obamacare” coverage through the House on Monday, a measure that’s doomed to advance no further but spotlights how the coronavirus pandemic and President Donald Trump’s efforts to obliterate that law have fortified health care’s potency as a 2020 campaign issue.While the legislation…
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June 29, 2020