‘You’ve handed us an issue:’ Democrats pounce on Trump administration’s health-care move

June 8, 2018 News

Republicans were caught off guard by the administration’s decision to abandon a popular element of the Affordable Care Act — protections for people with preexisting medical conditions.

The battle over Obamacare is back

June 8, 2018 News

As the Justice department refuses to defend key tenets of Obamacare, Democrats sense an opportunity to introduce healthcare policies into their campaign rhetoric.
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Trump Takes Aim At ACA Protections In Court Challenge: 5 Things To Know

June 8, 2018 News

The Trump administration says the Affordable Care Act's protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be declared unconstitutional. It declines to defend key provisions in court.
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The Trump administration says Obamacare is unconstitutional: What it means to you

June 8, 2018 News

Obamacare is on the ropes. Again. President Barack Obama's crowning achievement in the domestic policy arena became law in 2010 and was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012. But the Justice Department now says it won't defend a key part of the law in court. Here are some questions and answers.

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Trump Administration Move Imperils Pre-Existing Condition Protections

June 8, 2018 News

The Justice Department has announced it will not defend the Affordable Care Act in an ongoing lawsuit brought by 20 states that challenge the legality of core pillars of the law.
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Critics promise fight as DOJ looks to gut key provisions of Affordable Care Act

June 8, 2018 News, politics

"The ACA is the law of the land and DOJ should defend it," top Dem says.

Trump court move on Obamacare bolsters Democrats’ midterm message

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This 2011 quote from Jeff Sessions just became really awkward

June 8, 2018 Donald Trump, health, health care, Jeff Sessions, Justice Department, News, obamacare, politics

The Trump administration’s Department of Justice will not defend in court the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections, including the ban on discrimination against people with pre-existing medical conditions, it announced Thursday. While Attorney General Jeff Sessions is far from the first to opt not to defend a law he deems unconstitutional, many prominent Republicans — including Sessions himself — were highly critical of the practice jus...

The Trump administration joins a lawsuit to shred Obamacare

June 8, 2018 Democracy in America, News, United States

TO REPUBLICANS, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is the zombie that endures countless hits to keep rising from its knees and haunt America’s health-care industry. The signature legislative achievement of Barack Obama’s presidency, which brought health coverage to 20m Americans, faced dozens of House repeal votes d...

Trump promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions. He just abandoned them in court.

June 8, 2018 ACA, Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, health, Justice Department, News, obamacare

The Trump administration told a federal court Thursday evening that it would no longer defend the Affordable Care Act (ACA), arguing that protections for people with pre-existing conditions are unconstitutional.

The Justice Department filed the brief supporting a lawsuit from Texas and 19 other Republican-led states. In their complaint, the states argue the courts must invalidate the entire ACA because Congress zeroed out the individual mandate, the penalty for not having insurance....