Obamacare

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High Hopes Edit Trump tells town hall he plans to cut entitlements, hopes to replace ObamaCare with 'something great' 12:11 a.m. the coronavirus crisis Edit South by Southwest canceled amid coronavirus concerns 6:02 p.m. market turmoil Edit Bond yields, oil prices, and stocks all fall after a tumultuous week 4:59…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after Vice President Mike Pence assured Americans that lab tests for coronavirus would be covered by private and government health insurance, that promise appears to be less than airtight.The bottom line: Medicare, Medicaid, and “Obamacare” insurance plans will cover the tests, officials said Thursday. Major…

It starts with a fever and a cough, sometimes coupled with wheezing and nausea. So far this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 310,000 hospitalizations and 18,000 deaths in the U.S. alone, and the epidemic is worldwide. Don’t panic, I’m not talking about coronavirus. I’m referring…

March 5, 2020 at 5:29 am Updated March 5, 2020 at 6:26 am CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said New Hampshire will join 17 other states in defending the Affordable Care Act as a case that is aimed at repealing the law goes before the U.S. Supreme…

For about a century, politicians tried and failed to create a program offering universal access to health care in America. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, it finally happened. But while the bill was widely nicknamed Obamacare, it wouldn’t have gotten done without the Speaker…

Ten years after Obamacare was signed into law, the “Affordable Care Act” has turned out to be anything but affordable for millions of hard-working Americans. Premiums have skyrocketed, and more than 25 million of our fellow citizens, many of whom are self-employed, earn too much ($50K per year or more)…

Byron York, Washington Examiner March 3, 2020 Yes, Democrats are divided over Bernie Sanders' revolution versus Joe Biden's restoration of status quo Obama. Yes, they are divided over what that means in terms of policy, like Sanders' Medicare For All versus Biden's tweaked Obamacare.Read Full Article »Read More

David Catron, The American Spectator March 4, 2020 The Supreme Court has agreed to hear another constitutional challenge to Obamacare. The court's latest rendezvous with the Affordable Care Act became all but inevitable in late 2018 when U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled, in Texas v. United States,...Read Full Article…

Programming note: Now that I’m back home and at work from last week’s vacation in Palm Springs, California (photos forthcoming someday soon on this blog’s Twitter feed), tomorrow morning I will present the first of three Pa. Superior Court oral arguments this month, including an en banc oral argument a…