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How Ralph Northam struck a deal with Republicans

June 11, 2018 Democracy in America, News, United States

VIRGINIA’S new governor, Ralph Northam, did in five months what his predecessor, Terry McAuliffe, couldn't manage in four years. He convinced a usually obdurate Republican legislature to bring this blue-trending state fully under the Affordable Care Act—even as the Trump administration continues efforts to kill it.

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The Trump administration joins a lawsuit to shred Obamacare

June 8, 2018 Democracy in America, News, United States

TO REPUBLICANS, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is the zombie that endures countless hits to keep rising from its knees and haunt America’s health-care industry. The signature legislative achievement of Barack Obama’s presidency, which brought health coverage to 20m Americans, faced dozens of House repeal votes d...

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Why people vote against their economic interests

June 5, 2018 Democracy in America, News, United States

A COMPLAINT often made of Donald Trump’s presidency is that many of the voters who delivered him to the Oval Office will suffer from his policies. They include the tax cut, with its benefits heavily skewed towards the rich. The complaint builds on the growing frustration of partisans of both parties that many people who seem to be...

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The parties’ preferred primary candidates prevail

May 9, 2018 Democracy in America, News, United States

MARY TAYLOR has been John Kasich’s lieutenant-governor since he was elected governor of Ohio in 2010. She backed all of his policies loyally, including the expansion of Medicaid and health insurance for the poor, and did not criticise Mr Kasich’s “Never Trump” campaign during his presidential candidacy. Yet when she campaigned to ...

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Ralph Northam pushes for Medicaid expansion in Virginia

April 2, 2018 Democracy in America, News, United States

RALPH NORTHAM, Virginia’s new Democratic governor, soundly beat his Republican rival, Ed Gillespie, by harnessing antipathy for Donald Trump. Virginia was the only Southern state that the president lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016. But Mr Northam's landslide win in November was also due to his promise to bring 300,000 uninsured Vir...

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The Museum of the Bible opens in Washington, DC

November 17, 2017 Democracy in America, News, United States

WHEN plans for the Museum of the Bible, which opens to the public in Washington, DC on November 18th, were first unveiled many predicted it would be a big, glossy advertisement for fundamentalist Christianity. The museum was founded and part-funded by Steve Green, a prominent evangelical and president of Hobby Lobby, a chain...

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The Alexander-Murray bill does not solve all Obamacare’s problems

October 27, 2017 Democracy in America, News, United States

ON OCTOBER 25th the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Bipartisan Health Care Stabilisation Act, the cross-party effort by two senators, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Patty Murray of Washington, to shore up troubled health-insurance markets. The main goal of this bill is to restore, for two years,...

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Donald Trump’s health-care orders will hurt middle-class, self-employed Americans

October 13, 2017 Democracy in America, News, United States

THE strange thing about Donald Trump’s new executive actions on health care is the identity of those who will suffer their consequences. On October 12th Mr Trump kicked off a deregulatory process to permit widespread formation of so-called Association Health Plans (AHPs), insurance policies run by groups of small firms. Then...

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Sam Brownback, governor of Kansas, heads for the exit

September 13, 2017 Democracy in America, News, United States

GOVERNORS of Kansas tend to love their job and rarely leave it early. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, dithered before agreeing to leave the governor’s mansion after Barack Obama asked her to lead the introduction of the Affordable Care Act as Secretary of Health and Human Services. The current Republican governor, Sam Brown...

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The Trump administration still has the power to wreak havoc on Obamacare

July 28, 2017 Democracy in America, News, United States

REPUBLICANS’ latest efforts to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s health care law, failed in the Senate on the night of July 27th. Three of their Senators—Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowksi  of Alaska and John McCain of Arizona—joined all 48 Democrats to vote down “skinny” repeal (see article).  ...

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