The fate of the Affordable Care Act will remain uncertain until after the 2020 US presidential elections.
Month: January 2020
Supreme Court declines to fast-track Obamacare case
The highest court's decision means it likely won't come up before the November election.
Supreme Court refuses to fast-track a challenge to the Affordable Care Act
A practical effect is that the health-care law is likely to remain in place through the November elections.
Supreme Court not going to fast-track Obamacare
NBC's Pete Williams reports that there will be no fast-track for the Obamacare case in the Supreme Court and that it "remains on the books for at least another year."
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Biden calls for Sanders to disown ‘doctored’ video on Social Security
- A long-standing philosophical fissures between the candidates
- A Very Stable Genius review: at the court of King Donald
Joe Biden has called for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to “disown” what he calls “doctored video” that some Sanders supporters say shows the former vice-president endorsing Republican calls to cut Social Security and Medicare.
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[Editorial] Trump’s steady erosion of health insurance protections
43% of US households report that at least one family member has a pre-existing medical condition, according to a survey released by Gallup on Dec 6, 2019. 49% of Americans (156 million people) receive health insurance through employers, and before the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), a change of situation, such as losing or switching a job, would have allowed insurance companies to decline coverage or potentially make people uninsurable because of chronic health conditions. Although Democrats ...
Supreme Court to hear Trump appeal in Obamacare contraception fight
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday took up an appeal by President Donald Trump's administration seeking to enforce new federal rules allowing employers to obtain religious exemptions from an Obamacare requirement that health insurance that they provide to employees pays for women's birth control.
