The Utah House of Representatives approved a Republican bill on Friday to scale back a voter-approved Medicaid expansion in the state over activists' concerns it could limit access to health care and supplant the will of...
Month: February 2019
White House report changes tack on health care rhetoric
The new report reflects the outcome of 2018 midterm elections in which Democrats successfully campaigned on keeping the Affordable Care Act. President Trump and Republicans have failed to repeal the ACA, which has grown in popularity among Americans.
Former Rep. John Dingell Left An Enduring Health Care Legacy
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Rep. John Dingell was instrumental in expanding the Medicaid program, reshaping Medicare and modernizing the Food and Drug Administration. He died Thursday night.
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WATCH: Longest-serving member of Congress dies at 92
John Dingell, a former Democratic representative from Michigan, fought for civil rights, Medicare and the environment and was elected to Congress at age 29.
The Health 202: Utah is trying to roll back Medicaid expansion plans on a shaky assumption
The state House is considering a bill today.
White House report claims Trump didn’t sabotage Obamacare
The White House claims the Trump-era changes give families more options
Howard Schultz says we can balance the budget if we only believe hard enough in the leadership fairy
Tens of people watched a “major policy address” by billionaire oligarch Howard Schultz on Thursday, in which the coffee mogul claimed he could fix the country with platitudes, vague ideas, and impressive-sounding adjectives.
Yet, while Schultz’s speech was heavy on words like “leadership,” “opportunity,” and attacks on the “far left” and the “far right,” the major policy address contained virtually no policy ideas wha...
Democrats Unite to Begin Push to Protect Pre-Existing Condition Coverage
No issue united Democrats in the 2018 campaign as much as protecting the Affordable Care Act’s guaranteed insurance coverage of people with pre-existing conditions.