Obamacare

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris warns of strict cost and quality standards on participating insurers, although she isnt specific about what those new requirements will be. | Darron Cummings/AP Photo Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled a pla…

Jay Inslee is running for president as the climate change candidate. But the two-term Washington state governor can credibly claim to have accomplished more than most of his peers on health care, a signature issue in the 2020 campaign. He created both the n…

House Democratic leaders have backed away from a major clash with their centrist wing over immigration, agreeing to winnow down a sweeping bill that would have overhauled Trump's migrant detention policies. Top Democrats are pushing hard for a vote on the mo…

The decision of 14 states not to expand Medicaid under Obamacare cost more than 15,000 lives, according to a new analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Affordable Care Act would have expanded Medicaid to everyone making up to 138 percent o…

Protesters gather protest lawmakers’ refusal to expand health care coverage in 2013. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images The real impact of Republican’s rejection of Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. The United States could have averted about 15,600 deaths if all 50 …

The building housing Centene Corporation headquarters is seen Thursday, July 2, 2015, in Clayton, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) ASSOCIATED PRESS The health insurer Centene plans to expand into 100 new counties and enter a new state Nevada - to expand privati…

MapLight is a nonprofit organization that reveals the influence of money in politics.Twelve of the current 17 House members who cosponsored the landmark 2009 measure known as Obamacare have signed on as cosponsors of legislation that would create a universal …

Easy to miss amidst the continuing fusillade of racist remarks from the White House was a remarkable Washington Post story this weekend : President Trump has instructed aides to prepare for sweeping budget cuts if he wins a second term in the White House, fiv…

On the other side, Biden is proposing to build on Obamacare. That can sound like tinkering at the edges. But his actual plan is much bigger and better than is widely realized, with large increases in funding, a public option, and more. It would, arguably, bri…

Trump Wins Ruling in Effort to Undo Obamacare (Podcast)