Trump administration to scrap rule protecting transgender patients from discrimination
WASHINGTON The Trump administration is rolling back protections for transgender patients that were provided under the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday it plans to remove gender identity from the class of peopl…
Trump administration proposes reversing transgender protections
The Trump administration has proposed a new rule that would roll back sex discrimination protection for transgender people in health services. In the proposed rule issued on Friday, the United States Health and Human Services Department (HHS) said laws banni…
bubmagMay 24, 2019
U.S. health agency proposes reversing Obamacare transgender protections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday proposed a rule that would roll back protections for transgender patients under Obamacare, the second rule this month the agency has put forward that would allow health pr…
bubmagMay 24, 2019
YOU DON’T SAY: Lawmaker Who Helped Write Obamacare: ‘What We Have Now Is Not Working.’ The fi…
YOU DON’T SAY: Lawmaker Who Helped Write Obamacare: What We Have Now Is Not Working. The fix for a failed government program is always a bigger government program.
bubmagMay 23, 2019
‘Wrong on most everything’: GOP smacks down Biden’s bipartisanship
As centrist Republicans winnow out, Joe Biden's cross-aisle appeal may decline with them. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Joe Biden is making his bipartisan bona fides a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, boasting recently that he persuaded three Republic…
bubmagMay 22, 2019
Abortion Shaping Up To Be The Health Care Fight Of 2020
WASHINGTON Democrats are gearing up to turn abortion into a key issue for the 2020 elections, saying it could turn out to be an issue that mirrors the fight to preserve the Affordable Care Act in 2018. Trump has made abortion and, more broadly, womens healt…
bubmagMay 22, 2019
Alabama Senate hopeful who authored an ACA repeal sells ‘free’ pro-life stickers — for $4 each
Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), who claims to be “pro-life” despite his repeated votes to take health insurance away from millions of people, is hoping to cash in on his state’s new unconstitutional abortion ban. Byrne, who is seeking his party’s nomination to ch…
bubmagMay 21, 2019
Why You Still Absolutely Need Health Insurance Despite the Death of the Penalty
Starting in 2019, you'll no longer owe a fine to the IRS if you don't have qualifying health insurance coverage. While the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, imposed a tax penalty for those who opted out of coverage, the mandate was eliminated with the tax re…
bubmagMay 19, 2019
Trump attacks Sunday morning political shows in bizarre rant about US military might and Obamacare
Donald Trump has lashed out at Americas Sunday morning political talk shows, claiming the programming has bias and dishonesty in a self-serving thread about American military and economic might. Mr Trumps tweet thread claimed that the American military was a…
bubmagMay 19, 2019