Obamacare

Those advocating moving all Americans onto a single government plan under the banner "Medicare for all" are creating a lot more work for themselves if the goal is actually to guarantee all Americans are able to obtain affordable health coverage. I'm not argu…

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to roll out soon a health care proposal that blows away Obamacare, while receiving credit for another health care measure he signed into law in 2017. In his speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalitions 2019 Road t…

(Bloomberg) -- Democrats seeking to save Obamacare from oblivion were asked by a federal appeals court to explain why they should be allowed to defend the national health-care plan in court if the Trump administration wont. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New O…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) A federal appeals court has requested written arguments on whether the House of Representatives and various Democratic-leaning states can step in to appeal a ruling striking down President Barack Obama’s health care law. The question is sign…

In June 2019, social media users began resharing a 2017 image originally tweeted by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence depicting a meeting between President Donald Trump and the U.S. House of Representatives Freedom Caucus about the American Health Care Act (AHCA…

Republicans spent nearly a decade promising to rid us of the incredibly terrible law known as Obamacare. And with very good reason. Obamacare stripped millions of people of their insurance.  For those who survived that mass slaughter – Obamacare doubled the…

Democrats diverge on not only policy, but politics too, when it comes to health care. The Democrats running for president in 2020, while sharing a general goal of “expanding health coverage,” have two fundamental disagreements about health care. One is on the…

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway will not appear before the House Oversight Committee to discuss her alleged multiple violations of the Hatch Act. According to CNN, White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md.,…

As Americans live longer, more and more families are caring for older adults and facing tough financial circumstances that give rise to a bigger question: How will we as a nation care for a growing number of older people with complex needs once they can no lo…