Supreme Court to review Obamacare requirement that employer-provided health insurance plans pay for contraceptives

January 17, 2020 News

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to step in and review the Trump administration's attempt to weaken the so-called "contraceptive mandate," the Affordable Care Act's long-controversial requirement that employer-provided health insurance plans cover birth control as a preventive service.
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Supreme Court to hear Obamacare birth control case

January 17, 2020 News

The high court will review whether the Trump administration was on solid ground when it gave religious employers and universities broader religious and moral exemptions to the Obamacare contraception mandate, which requires health care plans to offer free birth control.

Supreme Court Takes Up Birth-Control Conscience Case

January 17, 2020 News

The high court will consider a case involving a challenge to a Trump administration rule that allows employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage for religious or moral reasons.
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear Trump appeal in Obamacare contraception fight

January 17, 2020 News, topNews

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.

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The Health 202: Obamacare improved (but didn’t fix) the uninsured gap between black and white Americans

January 16, 2020 News

A new study finds bigger reductions in racial health disparities in states that expanded Medicaid.

Klobuchar: I am someone who gets things done

January 15, 2020 News

2020 Democratic candidate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, discusses the Senate impeachment trial, witnesses at the trial, Tuesday's debate in Iowa, health care reform and what her pitch is to men who voted for Trump.
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The Health 202: Bernie Sanders is betting Iowans are ready for Medicare-for-all. They weren’t four years ago.

January 15, 2020 News

Hillary Clinton was against his plan in 2016 and won the caucuses.

The most consequential vote of a generation still haunts Joe Biden

January 15, 2020 News

No single vote in Congress, except perhaps the passage of the Affordable Care Act, has had more impact on modern US politics than the one authorizing the war in Iraq more than 17 years ago. It's one that former Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday night, for the umpteenth time, that he regrets even as he tried to couch his response.
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Democratic debate: Warren challenges Sanders over electability – live

January 15, 2020 Democrats, Donald Trump, News, US news, US politics, World news

‘The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women,’ Warren says in final debate before Iowa caucuses
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3.05am GMT
After the first commercial break of the debate, Bernie Sanders had spoken more than any other candidate, taking up about twice as much time as Tom Steyer.
DEBATE AIR TIME: Who’s spoken the most? Here’s the @CBSNews tally through the first commercial break of the #DemDebate: pic.twitter.com/AoDQhVpZjb
3.01am GMT
The Democratic debate has returned from a commercial break, and the conversation has turned to healthcare.
Bernie Sanders defended his Medicare for All proposal, which he has centered his presidential campaign around.
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Fact check: Trump falsely claims to have ‘saved’ pre-existing conditions protections

January 14, 2020 News

President Donald Trump has long sought, unsuccessfully, to kill the Affordable Care Act, which established an unprecedented level of protection for those with pre-existing conditions.

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