Obamacare

Describing his preparation process for the impeachment trial of President Trump, Mitch McConnell told Fox News Sean Hannity last week that Everything I do during this, Im coordinating with the White House counsel. He added, There will be no difference between…

Congress is taking its fight into the holidays. A lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee says Democrats are open to impeaching President Trump again if new evidence of obstruction emerges. The comment was part of a petition to interview former White House c…

Simon F. Haeder, Pennsylvania State University The Affordable Care Act remains on life support after a panel of federal judges ruled on Dec. 18, 2019 that the laws individual mandate requiring people to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. The decision…

We're living in the era of nothing matters. The President peddled obvious mistruths, yet many people still take him at his word. The President bullies a minor on Twitter and is retweeted aplenty. The President invites foreign governments to play in our elect…

President Trump struck a blow against his predecessor's healthcare law by signing government funding legislation Friday that repealed major Obamacare taxes. Trump signed the bill only two days after a major court decision on Obamacare that left the law in li…

Between Congress and the Courts, Obamacare took more hits this week:The most despised part of the ACAthe moribund individual mandatewas declared unconstitutional in a 2-1 decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, but the judges left it to a lowe…

For Republicans, that split-screen Democratic treatment represents both danger and opportunity heading into the 2020 elections. The 98 pages of dusty legal prose redefines battle lines the parties have been drawing on health care an issue on voters minds more…

Judge Carolyn Dineen King was a voice of reason on Wednesday as her fellow members of a three-judge appeals panel Read Full Article »

LOS ANGELES The latest Democratic debate was held on a college campus steps from the beach, but the candidates couldnt get their minds out of a wine cave. At the last debate before the start of the election year, the odd location became shorthand for high-d…

Yves here. We featured a Kaiser Health News article earlier this week on continuing legal challenges to Obamacare and what they might mean for patients. This post describes a new ruling that nixed the individual mandate and has put the rest of the law in play…