Four U.S. cities sue over Trump ‘sabotage’ of Obamacare

August 2, 2018 News, topNews

Four major U.S. cities filed a lawsuit on Thursday contending that President Donald Trump's administration is unconstitutionally seeking to undermine Obamacare by failing to faithfully execute the healthcare law.
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Cities sue Trump for sabotaging Obamacare

August 2, 2018 Affordable Care Act, health, News, obamacare, Trump administration

Four cities filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday accusing the president and his cabinet of “waging a relentless campaign to sabotage and, ultimately, to nullify” the Affordable Care Act.

The suit — filed in a Maryland federal court by Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Baltimore — comes on the heels of the Department of Health and Human Services’ finalization Wednesday of regulations allowing people to keep short-term health insurance plans for up to...

Meet the group funding the fight to expand Medicaid in red states

August 2, 2018 News

Voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah may have the chance to achieve something their Republican state lawmakers oppose: expand Medicaid to thousands of residents.After years of being told "no" by GO...

Doctor: ‘You can’t just Band-Aid this back together’

August 1, 2018 News

Dr. Kavita Patel, a physician at Johns Hopkins and a former White House senior adviser who helped craft the Affordable Care Act, talks with Ali Velshi about the problems with the Trump administration’s inexpensive, short-term medical coverage plans and
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Trump promotes cheap short-term health plans critics call ‘junk’

August 1, 2018 News

The new policies don't have to cover preexisting conditions and offer limited benefits. Unable to repeal Obamacare, the move undercuts it while also creating options for people who don't qualify for Obamacare subsidies.

To undermine the ACA, the Trump…

August 1, 2018 News

If you thought the Trump administration couldn't take any additional steps to undermine the Affordable Care Act, think again.
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Trump is trying to decimate Obamacare. But that has proved hard to do.

August 1, 2018 News

Health policy experts say the law is surprisingly intact and it will probably take an act of Congress to undo it.

Study finds New York state’s proposed single-payer system financially feasible

August 1, 2018 health care, News, politics

A proposed single-payer health care system in New York state is economically viable and could insure a million people currently without coverage, according to a study from RAND Corp. released Wednesday.

The analysis, which looks at the New York Health Act, was commissioned by the New York State Health Foundation. It makes a number of charitable assumptions about the institution and implementation of the single-payer system, but ultimately concludes the plan would be a cost-effective...

Under New Rules, Cheaper ‘Short-term’ Health Care Plans Now Last Up To 3 Years

August 1, 2018 News

Susan Collins backs move to limit transparency for Trump Supreme Court nominee

August 1, 2018 Donald Trump, News, politics, susan-collins

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine — a Republican who has positioned herself as a moderate but who has voted for virtually all of Donald Trump’s far-right judicial nominees — said last month that she would not back a Supreme Court nominee who “demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 ruling that enshrined abortion rights. But it does not appear that she is very interested in finding out what Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh actually thinks about...