It was a classic bait and switch. On Thursday, in the hours before the Oval Office was set to host President Donald Trump’s ceremonial signing of a farm bill — one which had been lauded by anti-hunger advocates for sparing the food stamps program of deep funding cuts — the Trump administration quietly announced its plan to dump hundreds of thousands of people off of the food assistance program.
It was a quick end to a much ballyhooed example of bipartisan compromis...
Month: December 2018
Trump’s Syria surprise is a new attempt to distract from bad news at home
Donald Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of Syria wasn’t vetted by the Pentagon, the State Department, Congress, or US allies, and his rationale for it is false, foreign policy experts and military veterans say.
It comes as the Trump White House is losing ...
These popular health care provisions will vanish if Texas judge’s anti-Obamacare ruling stands
A Texas lawsuit trying to declare the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional won’t go over well with the public if it prevails. While it took a while for folks to warm up to the 2010 health law, recent polling finds a majority of the public now favors Obamacare.
Notwithstanding the real problems with the U.S. health care system, especially as compared to the rest of the developed world, the ACA made health care more accessible for more people — and they feel it. A ne...
California asks federal judge to block Trump contraception rule
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) asked a federal judge on Thursday to block Trump administration rules that would allow more exemptions to ObamaCare's contraception mandate.The final rules, slated to...
Anti-Obamacare lawyer tries to defend his court victory, winds up undercutting his own case
Late last week, Judge Reed O’Connor, a former Republican Senate staffer with a history of poorly reasoned opinions striking down Democratic policies, struck down the entire Affordable Care Act. On Wednesday, one of the lawyers behind this suit attempted to defend O’Connor’s opinion. It did not go well.
The political-operative-turned-judge’s opinion is widely viewed as indefensible, even by many of O’Connor’s fellow Obamacare haters. The Wall Stree...
The Health 202: States in the Obamacare lawsuit are biting the hand that feeds them
Roughly half of states pressing ACA lawsuit have expanded Medicaid or are trying to.
5 Ways Nixing The Affordable Care Act Could Upend The Entire U.S. Health System
If the decision of a judge in Texas to invalidate the federal health law holds up, expect broad effects on your health care — from insurance coverage to Medicare payments to preexisting conditions.
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