An overlooked detail in the health care debate: there is no compelling Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act because it's an unobtainable goal.
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Month: April 2019
The White House does or doesn’t have a health-care plan that is or isn’t better than Obamacare
Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney offered a number of bad arguments in defense of the administration’s health-care position.
Health care and insurance industries are spending a lot of money to defeat Medicare for All
Medicare for All has attracted widespread support in the Democratic Party. But the ambitious overhaul of the nation’s health care system faces a major threat: big spending by health care and insurance interests determined to preserve the status quo.
A ThinkProgress analysis found that those industries, part of a coalition called the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, donated nearly $1.2 million in the 2017-2018 election cycle to Democratic members of four key House commit...
Collins tells Barr to reverse course, defend ObamaCare
Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) is urging Attorney General William Barr to defend ObamaCare and reverse an earlier Department of Justice (DOJ) decision.In a ...
The Health 202: White House says yay, Hill GOP say nay on Obamacare repeal
The gulf between the two is wider than ever.
GOP lawmakers root against Trump in court on ObamaCare
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Coalition says Labor climate policy ‘a Trojan horse for a carbon tax’ – politics live
Labor abandons Kyoto credits and highlights vehicle emissions in climate policy, as budget and election loom. All the day’s events, live
The Parliamentary Budget Office has released a report on the cost of Australia’s aging population.
It makes for dire reading. Part of the overview is below, but in short
In real dollar terms, this equates to an annual cost to the budget of around $36 billion by 2028–29. This is larger than the projected cost of Medicare in that same year.”
And it ends.
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