WaPo: Trump allows states to skirt Obamacare requirements

October 23, 2018 News

The Trump Administration announced a new attack on the Affordable Care Act by allowing states to offer cheaper plans that don't cover mental-health services, prenatal care, or cover pre-existing conditions.
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Trump sets off a GOP tax cut scramble

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 News

President Donald Trump couldn't get Obamacare repeal, an infrastructure plan or a border wall, but there's one big wish-list item he's succeeded in conjuring into reality: tax cuts.

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White House economist on markets: ‘Random walk from day to day’

October 23, 2018 News

Ali Velshi talks with Council of Economic Advisers chair Kevin Hassett about the recent wild days on Wall Street, the potential for another tax cut, and the cost of adopting policies such as Medicare for All.
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Fact-checking President Trump’s claims on healthcare

October 23, 2018 News

President Trump says Republicans will always protect Americans with pre-existing conditions. For Fact’s Sake, Ali Velshi and NBC fact-checker Jane Timm explain how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, protected Americans with pre-existing conditions.
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Anti-gay lawyers just showed up in the Supreme Court with a big ask for Brett Kavanaugh

October 23, 2018 News, politics, religion

A team of conservative lawyers filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday, effectively asking the Court to allow religious conservatives to discriminate against same-sex couples.

This latest case, Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, presents many of the same issues that arose last term in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. That case, billed as an epic showdown over whether religion can be used to discriminate, wound up being ...

Trump administration falsely blames Obama administration for transgender erasure proposal

October 23, 2018 lgbtq, News, transgender, Trump administration

The Trump administration issued a new response Monday to the New York Times’ report that it is considering a plan to erase transgender people from recognition under federal nondiscrimination laws. This attempt to blame the Obama administration for the current circumstances is not only false, but further undermined by conservative groups’ praise for the news.

In a statement calling the Times’ story “misleading,” Health and Human Services spokesperson Cai...

Democrats back Medicare for all in about half of House races they're contesting

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 News

Democratic candidates for the House are backing a Medicare for all approach to the nation’s health care system in just over half the races in which a Democrat is on the ballot, according to a new survey provided first to USA TODAY.

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What you should know about the migrant caravan and the conspiracy theories surrounding it

October 23, 2018 News

As many as 7,000 Central Americans are making their to the U.S.-Mexico border, and along with them are a wealth of misinformation and conspiracy theories regarding their motives and character.

While this isn’t the first migrant caravan to make its way to the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration, it is the largest — and with midterm elections only two weeks away, this one has elicited the most strident response from Republicans and the White House, who are le...

The Health 202: HHS invites states to duck more Obamacare requirements

October 23, 2018 News

ACA subsidies can be used for cheaper plans.

Analysis: The tables have turned on health care in 2018

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 News

No policy decision during former President Barack Obama's first two years contributed more to the Democratic loss of the House of Representatives in 2010 than the party's drive to pass the Affordable Care Act.
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