Obamacare

“Republican AGs would step up and fight,” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey told POLITICO. Nearly two dozen Republican AGs also rallied to Donald Trump's defense this week, hoping to hoist the spotlight for a moment while urging the Senate to reject the articles of impeachment against the president as…

Five other states Illinois, Maine, New York, Oregon and Washington have similar laws on the books. But HHS is, for now, only singling out California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Xavier Becerra did not immediately respond. The move is i…

Health care stocks, which have been volatile in the run-up to the 2020 elections, are worth consideration even in light of uncertainty about a single-payer system, an investor told Yahoo Finance.Ben Phillips, chief investment officer at EventShares, sees value in health care — along with other government policy-sensitive sectors like…

Health care is high on the list of voter concerns for 2020, as last week’s Democratic candidate debate made clear once again. It’s no mystery why. About 28 million Americans don’t have health insurance, while tens of millions with coverage still struggle to pay their medical bills.  Things would be…

Twenty years ago today, Boing Boing became a blog. Mark Frauenfelder's first post linked to Street Tech, a now-dormant gadget blog. Now there are 160,000 more posts just like it and the impossible task of summarizing the best of them in yet another. Founded …

Rather than fast-track the latest challenge to Obamacare, the Supreme Court punted past the 2020 election. And while that appears to be a win for the so-called Trump administration, it puts Trump's 2016 lies about "terrific healthcare at a fraction of the cos…

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider a fast-track review of a lawsuit that threatens the Obama-era health care law, making it highly unlikely that the justices would decide the case before the 2020 election. The court denied a reques…

(Leah Millis/Reuters) The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court’s nationwide injunction against its effort to exempt more employers from the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate. The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled against the administration’s 2018 rule expanding…

The promised fights fizzled. The Democrats wrapped their pre-voting debate schedule Tuesday night with an unexpected dose of Iowa nice. It reflects the reality of an up-for-grabs caucus race where at least four candidates have a real shot at winning in less …

One of the strange features of the national health care conversation is how it has evolved. What is often referred to as Obamacare began as an attempt to insure the uninsured. In fact, the initial Congressional Budget Office estimates predicted the Affordable Care Act would be largely successful in doing…