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,…

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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Just after Donald Trump was elected president, Barack Obama slumped in his chair in the Oval Office and addressed an aide standing near a conspicuously placed bowl of apples, emblem of a healthy-snacking policy soon to be swept aside, along with so much else."I am so done with all of…

Jeremy and Rebecca Bratsman with Liev, one of their four children, at their home in Boise, Idaho, on June 18, 2020. (Alex Hecht/The New York Times)The Affordable Care Act, the landmark health law that has been a subject of caustic debate for more than a decade, is being tested as…

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On Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” Bill Maher used the “New Rules” segment to mock white people for “culturally appropriating” the Black Lives Matter movement. But he also asked activists to go just a little bit easier on white people who might be trying to join the movement but still…

For the second time in two weeks, President Trump was a guest on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News. At the end of the interview, Hannity asked him a simple question that any candidate should be able to knock out of the park. "What's at stake in this election as…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The decade-old health care law that has divided Americans even as it expanded coverage and protected people with preexisting conditions is being put to yet another test. Amid a pandemic, President Donald Trump and some red states want the Supreme Court to declare the Affordable Care Act…

The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2018. (Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters) The Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Thursday night to request the repeal of the Affordable Care Act of 2017. The brief argues that because the Republican-controlled Congress of 2017 struck down the law’s…