Trump’s Obamacare sabotage accidentally resulted in more free health plans

People can start buying insurance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace, otherwise referred to as Obamacare or the Federal Health Insurance Exchange, on Wednesday. Last year, 12.2 million people signed up for an ACA health plan through healthcare.gov or their state’s own health website. Given the dysfunction coming from Washington, D.C., consumer activists are concerned that not as many people will sign up for coverage this year. (Pro-ACA groups have ...

Meet the ‘prophets of the resistance’: Faith leaders battle white supremacy and Trump

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA — Bishop Dwayne Royster wasn’t even halfway through his speech, but members of the crowd were already on their feet. With one hand doggedly clutching the wooden pulpit at the front of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, he suddenly threw his other arm in the air as he kicked his message into high gear, working the impromptu congregation into a spiritual frenzy—and a political one.

“We’re not the ‘nice’ faith people!” he bellowed...

Even Manafort’s indictment can’t keep Paul Ryan from talking about tax reform

The biggest tax wonk in Congress is having a frustrating morning.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates were told to surrender Monday morning following reports over the weekend that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had filed the first indictment in his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The Manafort and Gates indictment was unsealed Monday morning and contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy ...

While the nation focused on Mueller, Trump proposed dangerous changes to Obamacare

On Friday, shortly before word of pending indictments from Special Counsel Robert Mueller sucked up all the oxygen in the news cycle, the Trump administration dropped a 365-page proposal including numerous potential tweaks to the rules governing Obamacare. Among other things, the proposed rulemaking from the Department of Health and Human Services could allow insurers to sell stripped down health plans in the Obamacare exchanges, potentially leaving people without coverage when they need i...