Trump slashes funding that helps people sign up for Obamacare

July 10, 2018July 11, 2018 News

The Trump administration is once again slashing funding for a program that helps Americans sign up for Obamacare.
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Trump Officials Slash Grants That Help Consumers Get Obamacare

The Trump administration has announced that it is slashing grants to nonprofit organizations that help people get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Here’s what would happen to abortion rights in Collins’ and Murkowski’s states if Roe falls

July 10, 2018 News

Now that President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill the seat vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, the Supreme Court may soon have the five votes necessary to strike down Roe v. Wade.

Whether the Supreme Court upholds restrictive state-level abortion laws or overturns Roe outright, abortion access will become even more dependent on zip code and financial means — particularly as states become further emboldened to pass harsh...

Where Judge Kavanaugh stands on issues

July 10, 2018 News

President Trump has nominated conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy. Ali Velshi breaks down where Judge Kavanaugh stands on abortion, gay rights, Obamacare and the Mueller investigation.
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How Kavanaugh will use religion to turn back the clock

July 10, 2018 News, politics, religion

It’s a polite fiction that religion isn’t a factor in the American legal system. But religion plays an outsize role, both in judicial decisions and in the decisions of presidents in nominating a judge. President Donald Trump’s latest pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh — a Catholic, whose appointment preserves the Catholic majority on the Supreme Court — will shift the high court dramatically to the right, most noticeably when it comes to religion.

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The Health 202: Kavanaugh pick worries Obamacare and abortion-rights advocates

July 10, 2018 News

But some social conservatives are also raised flags.

Special Report: Starting in Arkansas, Trump-era Medicaid rules alter healthcare landscape

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 News, topNews

Gregory Tyrone Bryant left his last stable job at a meatpacking factory to fight a cocaine addiction eight years ago. When he returned to the workforce a year later, his options were limited: mostly temporary jobs without healthcare benefits.
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Trump’s latest move could push Obamacare premiums higher

July 10, 2018 News

The Trump administration just halted a key set of payments to Obamacare insurers, but it's consumers who could wind up having to foot the bill.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer vows to oppose Brett Kavanaugh with “everything I’ve got”

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 News

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joins “CBS This Morning” from Capitol Hill to discuss President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh and why he firmly believes Kavanaugh will repeal both Roe v. Wade and the Affordable Care Act.

Who is Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s pick to replace Anthony Kennedy?

July 10, 2018 Donald Trump, News, politics

If you could grow a judge in a vat, and design every moment of their life to appeal perfectly to the Republican establishment, the man who would emerge fully-formed from that vat would be Brett Kavanaugh. A two-time Yale graduate, Kavanaugh clerked for the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, worked for Bill Clinton inquisitor Ken Starr, and served as one of President George W. Bush’s top White House aides.

Kavanaugh was a frequent opponent of President Barack Obama’s Envir...