U.S. judge to review Trump healthcare payments cut

October 23, 2017 News, topNews

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge is set to hear arguments on Monday about whether to block President Donald Trump's decision to terminate controversial payments to health insurance companies under Obamacare.
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Trump pushes for tax reform and short-term Obamacare fix

October 23, 2017October 23, 2017 News

President Trump is leaning on congressional Republicans to finish tax reform quickly. He asked GOP House members on a conference call to go along with the Senate's budget blueprint. That would make it easier to pass a tax reform. Major Garrett reports.

Schumer calls on McConnell to send bipartisan health care bill to floor this week

October 22, 2017 News

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Sunday to bring a bipartisan short-term ObamaCare stabilization deal to the Senate floor this week, despite uncertain...

Mulvaney: ‘Good chance’ to get ObamaCare deal

October 22, 2017 News

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney said Sunday there is a "good chance" to get a deal on ObamaCare insurer payments.During an interview on CBS's "Face The Nation," Mulvaney was asked about President Trump's pos...

The uninsured rate is rising as Trump successfully sabotages Obamacare

October 21, 2017 health care, News, obamacare, politics

Providing some of the clearest evidence yet about President Donald Trump’s ability to undermine Obamacare even without the GOP votes in Congress required to officially repeal it, the national uninsurance rate is now on the rise.

According to Gallup, which has been tracking the uninsurance rate since 2008, the percentage of Americans without health care has been gradually ticking up since Trump was elected.

The uninsured rate had been on a steady downward trajectory sinc...

Tracking Trump: president gives himself top marks for military bereavement calls

October 21, 2017 Donald Trump, News, US news, US politics

President claimed he ‘called every family of someone who’s died’ as tensions flared with sergeant’s relatives and later gave himself 10/10 on Puerto Rico
Each week Trump seems to make more news than most presidents do in a lifetime. The Guardian is keeping track of it all in this series, every Saturday
It was unclear exactly what Donald Trump hoped to achieve when he decided to cut a key element of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – subsidies to insurance companies to help them cover those on low incomes – except perhaps a sense of pure destructive joy in damaging something his predecessor built that Republicans in Congress seemed unable to dismantle. On Saturday, he, crowed that he had ended a “Dems windfall” for insurance companies.
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GOP eyes move to lower premiums right before 2018 elections

October 20, 2017 News

Republican leaders are looking to take action on an ObamaCare bill later this year.

I.R.S. Says It Will Reject Tax Returns that Lack Health Insurance Disclosure

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017 News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), Trump, Donald J, United States Politics and Government

The agency says it won’t accept individual tax returns that don’t meet requirements under the Affordable Care Act.

Trump’s Obamacare shift complicates ability to work with Democrats

October 20, 2017 News, topNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's disavowal this week of a bipartisan agreement to stabilize Obamacare has further eroded the already minimal trust congressional Democrats had in him, complicating prospects for gaining their cooperation on a range of issues.
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Man says he was discriminated against because of his MAGA hat, claims it’s a ‘spiritual’ symbol

October 20, 2017 News, politics, religion

A man is claiming his Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat has religious significance, arguing he was unfairly discriminated against for his “spiritual” beliefs when he entered a New York City bar wearing the iconic red cap.

According to the Gothamist, Philadelphia accountant Greg Piatek filed additional court papers last week in an ongoing suit against West Village bar The Happiest Hour, which he says discriminated against him in January. Piatek initially filed suit in March with th...