Obamacare

Kamala Harris, one of two African-Americans in the race for the Democrat presidential nomination, staked her claim as a leading candidate with an attack on front-runner Joe Biden's race record. Ms Harris, the US senator from California, drew much of the atte…

Elsewhere during the two-hour debate, the other candidates attempted to introduce themselves to the millions of Americans watching along on television - many of whom will be unfamiliar with their policy stances.  The other six candidates present were US sena…

From their center stage perches, both former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders did their best Thursday night to rise above the attacks both direct and veiled launched by their rivals. Interested in Democratic Party? Add Democratic Par…

MIAMI (AP) â The Latest on the second Democratic presidential debate (all times local): 10:15 p.m. In an emotional exchange, Sen. Kamala Harris challenged Joe Biden's stance on busing to desegregate public schools during the 1970s, telling the former vice p…

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…