The Congressional Budget Office dramatically scaled back its estimates about a key part of the Affordable Care Act — estimates that helped derail the push the repeal the law.
Month: February 2019
New Mexico Eyes A ‘Medicaid Buy-In’ Plan To Insure More Residents
While some officials urge expansion of the Medicare system, several states are mulling a different way to ensure residents have affordable coverage: Help them buy into a Medicaid-like plan.
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The Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest threat to separation of church and state in decades
The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Wednesday that never should have been filed in the first place.
The outcomes in American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, two consolidated cases considering the fate of a cross-shaped monument in Maryland, are as preordained as anything in the Supreme Court can be. Every single member of the Court’s conservative majority...
The Supreme Court is about to hear the biggest threat to separation of church and state in decades
The Supreme Court will hear two cases on Wednesday that never should have been filed in the first place.
The outcomes in American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. American Humanist Association, two consolidated cases considering the fate of a cross-shaped monument in Maryland, are as preordained as anything in the Supreme Court can be. Every single member of the Court’s conservative majority...
Beyond ‘Bumper Sticker’ Slogans: 2020 Democrats Debate Details Of Medicare-For-All
Presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar are giving details of their health care proposals, the first big issue where 2020 hopefuls are differentiating themselves.
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Sen. Kamala Harris: ‘I strongly believe that we need to have Medicare For All’
In an interview with NBC’s Kasie Hunt, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris talks about her vision for health care, for the country, and how she’ll run to unseat President Trump.
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Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill ‘Medicare for All’
Doctors, hospitals, drug companies and insurers have a simple message: The Affordable Care Act works reasonably well and should be improved, not repealed or replaced with a big new public program.
Wyoming moves closer to Medicaid work requirement
A bill to establish work requirements for some Medicaid recipients in Wyoming passed its first vote on Friday.The ...
Bernie Sanders’ 2016 run changed politics. His aides say it also changed Bernie Sanders.
On April 30, 2015, the day Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced his first ever presidential run, more than three-quarters of the electorate had no idea who he was.
Sanders, of course, went on to give former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a run for her money in the 2016 Democratic party primaries. His rallies attracted both enormous crowds and a healthy supply of young voters, for whom he articulated — in a thick Brooklyn accent — a vision of a government that he said...