Obamacare

Six years after its tumultuous rollout, the Affordable Care Act is finally working more or less as intended. Presidential contenders should take notice. Obamacare, as the ACA is known, offers many lessons for politicians aiming to shake up the health care sy…

So Mr. McCarthy is right when he says that, for Mr. Trump, the personal is political. The problem is Mr. Trump never switched from politics to leadership and governing. All of government, its increasingly clear, is his personal plunder. The founding fathers p…

Enrollment help was plentiful for insurance sign-ups in the early years of the Affordable Care Act, such as at this clinic in Bear, Del., in 2014. Though the Trump administration has since slashed the outreach budget, about 930,000 people have signed up for A…

Atlanta (CNN)Republicans have held dominion over Georgia's political landscape for decades, dominating state government while, every four years, comfortably collecting its presidential electoral votes. No Democratic presidential nominee has won a general ele…

(Reuters) - Perhaps no issue has divided the field of Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls more than the debate over “Medicare for All.” Progressive candidates favor the sweeping proposal, which would replace private health insurance with a single governme…

Kutzin said the Affordable Care Act advanced the national conversation about whether health care should be a basic right a belief that every major Democratic presidential contender says theyre for but health care is still ingrained in the United States as an …

Which brings me to the latest development in intra-Democratic policy disputes: Elizabeth Warrens proposal for a two-step approach to health reform. Her idea is to start with actions some requiring no legislation at all, others requiring only a simple Senate m…

They can see for themselves how that experience stacks up against high-priced care that requires them to fight tooth-and-nail against their insurance company, Warren wrote in a Medium post unveiling the plan, echoing more moderate candidates like Mayor Pete B…

Pete Buttigieg has recently sought to distance himself from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — in particular on the issue of Medicare For All. Buttigieg recently asserted he “never believed” in mandating single payer healthcare. “Only in the last few mont…

Sign-ups slip in initial days of Obamacare open enrollment