Axios: McCarthy says Trump’s decision to go after Obamacare ‘made no sense’

March 27, 2019 News

Chris asks how Trump plans to keep protections for pre-existing conditions if he aims to kill Obamacare.
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Judge strikes down 2 states’ Medicaid work requirements

March 27, 2019March 28, 2019 News

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington, D.C., found the states' requirements pose numerous obstacles to getting health care that have gone unresolved by federal and state officials

Judge strikes down Medicaid work requirements, again

March 27, 2019March 28, 2019 News

A federal district court judge handed the Trump administration another defeat in its attempt to allow states to impose work requirements in Medicaid, which has caused 18,000 people to lose coverage so far.

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Federal Judge Again Blocks States’ Work Requirements For Medicaid

March 27, 2019 News

What is the White House’s plan to replace Obamacare?

March 27, 2019 News

Chief of Staff to Mike Pence Marc Short joins MTP Daily to discuss the White House pivoting to health care and says “you should rest assured that 20 million Americans will certainly not be without health insurance."
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Federal judge blocks Arkansas and Kentucky Medicaid work requirements

March 27, 2019 health, health care, News

A federal judge struck down work requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky on Wednesday, temporarily blocking one of the Trump administration’s most consequential health policies.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that the federal government did not properly justify the need for the work requirements given the number of people who would lose health coverage.

This is the second time Boasberg blocked Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirements. In June 2018, he said...

Big Question: Who wins on the healthcare debate?

March 27, 2019 News

President Trump is, for his third time, trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, despite its popularity with the American public. If Republicans succeed in striking Obamacare down, is it really a win for them, or for the Democrats?
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House GOP leader urged Trump to hold off on latest ObamaCare assault

March 27, 2019 News

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) recently told President Trump he didn't agree with the administration's effort to have the Affordable Care Act deemed invalid in federal court, according to a sour...

In Divided White House, Trump Sided With Mulvaney in Push to Nullify Health Law

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 Health Insurance and Managed Care, Law and Legislation, News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), Trump, Donald J, United States Politics and Government

President Trump decided to press courts to overturn the Affordable Care Act despite concerns from the attorney general, the health secretary and the vice president.

What will happen if the Trump administration wins the lawsuit to repeal Obamacare?

March 27, 2019 GOP, health care, News, obamacare, texas

Nearly every U.S. resident would be impacted in some way if the Trump administration gets its way and the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is invalidated in court.

Susan Lyon of California, for example, is deeply concerned for her husband and business partner who has Parkinson’s disease. Without the ACA, she suspects her insurance would charge a lot more because of her husband’s pre-existing condition. She purchases health insurance through the ACA’s Small Business Healt...