Voters In 4 States Set To Decide On Medicaid Expansion

October 31, 2018 News

Ballot initiatives in Utah, Nebraska and Idaho will determine whether to expand Medicaid, after legislators refused to do so. Montanans will vote on whether to keep the state's expansion intact.
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4 ways Obamacare is changing for 2019

October 31, 2018 News

What a difference a year makes.
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Idaho’s GOP governor endorses Medicaid expansion ballot measure

October 30, 2018 News

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, a Republican, endorsed a grass-roots effort to expand Medicaid in his state on Tuesday.

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The Trailer: Why are red states about to adopt Obamacare?

October 30, 2018 News

In this edition: The ballot initiatives that actually matter, garbage time for attack ads, and jitters in Republican suburbs.

Republican governor of Idaho backs ballot measure expanding Medicaid

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 News

It’s one of three deep-red states where the question of whether to grow the program is on the ballot.

The race to check Donald Trump in America’s conservative utopia

October 30, 2018 congress, Democrat, Donald Trump, News, politics, Republican

If there...

Transgender women celebrate monumental health care court victory

October 30, 2018 health care, lgbtq, News, politics, transgender

It was the first case outcome of its kind: a total of $780,000 in damages for two transgender women who were denied medically necessary health care because of their gender identity. It was also likely the first time a court found that facial feminization surgery was medically necessary.

The women now hope that if eight jurors in Wisconsin could be convinced that transgender people deserve access to health care related to their identities, others might be inspired to fight for what t...

What US citizenship actually gets you, the good and the bad

October 30, 2018 News, United States

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GOP’s Latest Campaign Punch On Health Care Returns To Medicare

October 30, 2018 News

Democrats are hammering Republicans over their efforts to eliminate insurance protections for pre-existing conditions. Republicans are telling seniors their Medicare coverage may be in danger.
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Media outlets use racist terms to describe Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship

October 30, 2018 News, politics

President Trump told Axios in an interview this week that he is planning to end birthright citizenship, a right granted to children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States.

Axios on Tuesday morning released a small portion of the interview, set to air in full on HBO Sunday, using racist terminology to describe the decision.

“This would be the most dramatic move yet in Trump’s hardline immigration campaign, this time targeting ‘anchor babies̵...