Supreme Court declines to take up contraceptive mandate case

June 17, 2019 News

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought by the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic religious order for women, challenging lower court opinions that blocked the Trump administration's effort to weaken the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage mandate.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren set to roll out student debt plan with Rep. James Clyburn

June 16, 2019 News, politics

Among the myriad proposals that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has offered up while on the 2020 campaign trail is a plan to confront the nation’s growing student loan crisis by cancelling a significant amount debt currently held by tens of millions of Americans. Now, with an assist from House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), Warren will move the timetable on this proposal up, with an eye toward introducing legislation in a few weeks’ time.

As Roll Call’s Niels Les...

Sanders on Medicare for All: ‘People don’t like insurance companies, they like their doctors’

June 16, 2019 News

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 presidential candidate, defended one of his signature policy proposals, Medicare for All, on "Fox News Sunday," saying Medicare is "far more popular" than private insurance."Medi...

New York City to become first city ever to directly fund abortion

June 15, 2019 health, News, politics

New York City will become the first city nationwide to directly fund abortion, thanks to a budget deal announced Friday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D) included $250,000 for the New York Abortion Access Fund (NYAAF) in a $92.8 billion budget agreement for the 2019-20 fiscal year, which begins July 1.

New York City already funds Planned Parenthood, but the organization’s affiliates don’t just help patients terminate a pregnancy....

On the Doorstep With a Plea: Will You Support Medicare for All?

June 15, 2019June 15, 2019 Health Insurance and Managed Care, Medicare, News, United States Politics and Government

The nation’s largest nurses’ union is pushing Medicare for all from door to door to door in swing House districts. But the campaign for a single-payer health system is slow going.

MI Rep. Dingell on healthcare and voters yelling about impeachment

June 15, 2019 News

Democrats are focusing on the key issue of healthcare ahead of the 2020 election as they fight to protect Obamacare from Trump and Republicans. Ari Melber also asks Rep. Dingell about voters’ views of impeachment in Michigan.
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Pelosi hits Trump on health care: His ‘cruel hypocrisy knows no bounds’

June 14, 2019 News

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hammered President Trump on Friday for his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act after he announced a new push to expand health care choice and drive down costs."The President's...

California lawmakers pass budget that expands health coverage to some undocumented immigrants

June 14, 2019 News

California lawmakers on Thursday passed a budget that would make the state the first to extend health care coverage to some undocumented young adults through its Medicaid program.

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The one man most likely to turn the United States into a theocracy

June 14, 2019 News, politics, religion

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is having a moment.

Last month, Hawley tore into a Trump judicial nominee. The nominee’s sin? Michael Bogren had the audacity to represent a Michigan city that wanted to enforce a civil rights ordinance against Catholic business owners who believe they have a constitutional right to discriminate. Hawley’s interrogation of Bogren was widely condemned even by many conservative voices.

Ed Whelan, the legal activist best known for using the rea...

The Health 202: Trump administration rule opens door to more people buying Obamacare plans

June 14, 2019 News

It would allow employers to send their workers into plans that do comply with the ACA.