Nearly 3.3 Million Americans Have Enrolled In Private Obamacare Plans
Nearly 3.3 million Americans have signed up for private health insurance plans since October through the online marketplaces created by the health law, with enrollment continuing to surge through...
View ArticleUS Foreign Aid Is Shrinking And Americans Don’t Care
NEW YORK — As the White House puts finishing touches on its budget plan for 2015, most of the attention is focusing on domestic issues. Will the plan call for higher taxes on wealthy Americans or...
View ArticleFailures Of Brazil’s Universal Health Care Plan Offer Lessons For The US
SÃO PAULO — Health is a legal right in Brazil. Ever since the country’s constitution was rewritten after the fall of the military government in 1988, Brazil has guaranteed every citizen—and indeed...
View ArticleGovernors: ‘Obamacare’ Here To Stay
WASHINGTON (AP) — The explosive politics of health care have divided the nation, but America’s governors, Republicans and Democrats alike, suggest that President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is...
View ArticleDemocratic-led States Websites Get Health Law Fix
WASHINGTON (AP) — States that have experienced technical problems running their own health care enrollment websites are getting some help from the Obama administration. The administration quietly...
View ArticleInjunction Puts Brakes On Birth Control Mandate
A temporary injunction was issued last week against a Minnesota car dealership owner who argued the contraceptive mandate under the Affordable Care Act was a violation of his beliefs as an active...
View Article6M Enrolled, But Obamacare Fight Is Vicious As Ever
In May 2013, the Congressional Budget Office projected that enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s health care insurance program would need to reach seven million in order to be successful. This...
View ArticleAmerican Health Insurance Isn’t A Year-round Thing Anymore
WASHINGTON — Here’s more fallout from the health care law: Until now, customers could walk into an insurance office or go online to buy standard health care coverage any time of year. Not anymore....
View ArticleConflicting Federal Court Rulings Clash Over Obamacare
A federal circuit court in Washington, D.C., ruled Tuesday morning that the federal government may not subsidize health insurance plans for people in the 36 states that decided not to set up their own...
View ArticleSCOTUS Upholds Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a core component of President Barack Obama’s health-care law, backing tax credits used by millions of Americans to buy insurance and preserving the landmark measure that...
View Article20 Million People Would Lose Health Coverage Under Donald Trump Presidency
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Aston, Pa. A new study that examines some major health care proposals from the presidential candidates finds that Donald...
View ArticleTrump Taps Obamacare Critic To Lead Department Of Health
US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Georgia Congressman Tom Price as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The orthopedic surgeon is a critic of...
View ArticleRepublicans Conceal Cost Of Repealing Affordable Care Act
(ANALYSIS) — Republican leaders racing to tear down as many as 20 million (pdf) individuals’ healthcare without providing a replacement, it turns out, also don’t want the American people to know how...
View ArticleTrump Administration To Keep Entitlements, Obamacare Plan Unknown
Reince Priebus, Chair of the Republican National Committee, right, speaks as President-elect Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech during his election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in New...
View ArticleCongressional Budget Office: 24 Million People Would Lose Coverage Under...
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017, after Congress’ nonpartisan budget analysts reported that millions...
View ArticleActivists Push For Single-Payer Health Care As Republicans Dismantle Obamacare
A rally against Republicans proposed changes health care changes in AC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017. (AP/Damian Dovarganes) Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The...
View ArticleTrump Demands Vote For Widely Unpopular American Health Care Act
President Donald Trump pauses in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Friday, March 24, 2017, during an announcement on the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline. (AP/Evan...
View ArticleObamacare Is A Failure, But It Will Only ‘Explode’ If Trump Sabotages It
President Donald Trump, flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, meets with members of the media regarding the health care overhaul bill, March 24,...
View ArticleTrump Team Seeks Friday Passage Of Revised Healthcare Bill
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at DynaLab, Inc. in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, April 1, 2017. (AP/John Minchillo) Just over a week after the Republicans’ embarrassing failure to repeal Obamacare as a result...
View ArticleFact Check: Trump Touts His Own Record While Abroad
In his speech in Saudi Arabia on Sunday during his first foreign trip as president, Trump claimed to have accomplished record spending on the armed forces, even though Congress has yet to pass a...
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