Month: January 2019

For Rep. Gwen Moore, quality coverage for people with pre-existing conditions is personal

Affordable Care Act, health care, News

Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) has cancer, but she’s fighting back and did so early.

The congresswoman, representing Wisconsin’s 4th congressional district for over a decade, was first diagnosed with small lymphocytic lymphoma in June; it’s a non-Hodgkin lymphoma where the cancer originates in the lymphatic system or the disease-fighting network throughout the body.

“It is sort of a silent kind of cancer,” she told ThinkProgress by phone. “Many peo...

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This is how to end government shutdowns forever

News, politics, republican-party

Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Friday that she supports permanent legislation to ensure that government shutdowns never happen again. Broadly speaking, Pelosi wants legislation providing that “any appropriations bill that does not get agreed upon within a timely fashion by the date, you automatically go into a CR” — a “continuing resolution” that maintains current spending levels.

Basically, Pelosi would replace the current default rule — that governm...

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84 days after residents voted for Medicaid expansion, Utah lawmakers want to repeal or cap it

health care, News

The Utah state legislature returns to work on Monday and GOP lawmakers are already proposing multiple bills that hobble a successful ballot measure to expand health care to more low-income residents.

Utah State Sen. Allen Christensen’s (R) bill would prevent the ballot initiative — “Proposition 3,” which was approved in November and allowed for a clean Medicaid expansion — from going into effect. It would do so if the federal government approves a waive...

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This is why Republicans were so desperate to keep Nancy Pelosi from becoming speaker again

Donald Trump, News, politics

Nancy Pelosi has been speaker of the House for just 22 days, and she just humiliated the president of the United States.

Ever since President Donald Trump shut down much of the government last month, Pelosi has delivered a consistent message to Trump — “my offer to you is this: nothing.” On Friday, Trump took that offer, announcing his support for a short-term funding bill that will reopen the government for three weeks without any additional funding for a border w...

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