Obamacare

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)

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A lot of people who are not economists. If it ever went into effect, the tax would either increase businesses tax burden or encourage them to offer their workers skimpier insurance. Neither outcome is much of a crowd pleaser. It was Democrats who passed the …

Think of how the Republican Party used to define itself: pro-family, tough on fiscal policy and strong on national security. On family policy, Republicans tore children from immigrant parents at the border and are now trying to rip apart health insurance for…

Opponents running to Joe Biden's left say his health plan for America merely "tinkers around the edges" of the Affordable Care Act. But a close read reveals some initiatives in Biden's plan that are so expansive they might have trouble passing even a Congress…

The Trump administration can expand the sale of short-term health insurance policies that dont meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act, a federal judge ruled, advancing the governments efforts to undo Obamacare.

A Trump administration effort to make more affordable, short-term medical insurance plans available to more people despite Obamacare's onerous regulations survived a federal court challenge on Friday. In a ruling for the United States District Court in Washi…