Obamacare

WASHINGTON — Let’s accept the premise offered by President Trump, Chris Christie and others: It’s worth sacrificing American lives to get the U.S. economy restarted.But then what? What’s the plan for what comes next?What do you do about the schools when the parents go back to work?What about child-care centers?How…

Asked if he still supported the lawsuit calling to invalidate Obamacare, President Donald Trump said he did. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribeReuters brings you the latest business, finance and breaking news video from around the globe. Our reputation for accuracy and impartiality is unparalleled.Get the latest news on: http://reuters.com/Follow Reuters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReutersFollow…

TOPLINE President Trump said Wednesday the Justice Department would continue to argue that the Affordable Care Act should be overturned in a Supreme Court case that will be heard this fall, resisting advice from Attorney General Bill Barr to pursue a ruling over a narrower part of the legislation. UNITED…

The Supreme Court justices seemed concerned Wednesday about the scope of Trump administration rules that would allow more employers who cite a religious or moral objection to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women, as required by the Affordable Care Act. The justices were hearing their third day…

Defying public-health guidelines and putting senators at risk to elevate a favorite judge to the second highest court in the land, Mitch McConnell behaves like a man who knows his time is running out. He’s already filled some 200 federal judgeships with young, Federalist Society approved conservatives poised to overturn…

”You’ve got first responders, firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses other health care professionals, people who run pharmacies and grocery stores and drive trucks who’ve been working 24 hours a day,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). “And you’ve got lawmakers who have been absent in recess for about six weeks.” “This…

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalised late on Tuesday with an infection caused by a gallstone, still took part in the court's arguments by telephone on Wednesday. During arguments in a case involving a dispute over an Obamacare requirement regarding health insurance coverage for women's birth…

Attorney General William Barr in Washington, D.C. February 6, 2020 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly tried to convince members of the Trump administration that they should abandon their efforts to have the Supreme Court strike down all of Obamacare ahead of the November election. Barr told Vice President…

A woman reads a leaflet at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, Calif., in 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) This is not a recipe for government by the people.One of the big asymmetries in today’s Washington is that our system’s rules and procedures make it much easier to increase spending than…

Coleman Drake, University of Pittsburgh and David Anderson, Duke University With an eye on replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration took one particularly critical action in October 2017. It discontinued cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments to health insurers participating in the ACA marketplaces. But the response to those cuts…