Health insurers unhappy with denied claims argue case at the Supreme Court

December 10, 2019 ACA, Affordable Care Act, Government, healthcare, law, News, obamacare, US healthcare

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Insurers take Obamacare fight to SCOTUS, demanding $12 billion from the US

December 7, 2019 ACA, Government, health insurance, healthcare, law, News, obamacare, politics

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Jay Inslee is challenging Democrats to reject the filibuster

March 10, 2019 climate-change, congress, Democrat, Donald Trump, Government, News, politics, US Congress, US politics, US Senate

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The US government owes federal workers over $5 billion in back pay

January 14, 2019 congress, Democrats, Donald Trump, Government, News, politics, Republicans, United States

The US government shutdown has blown a nearly $5.3 billion ...

All the reasons why the US government has ever been shut down

December 27, 2018 congress, Donald Trump, Government, News, politics, trump

When US president Donald Trump ordered the government to shut down last week, it was the third shutdown since he took office in 2017—and the 21st since 1976, the year the modern congressional budget process was enacted.

The current shutdown ste...

What would a US government shutdown mean for military, mail delivery, and national security?

December 17, 2018 Democrats, Donald Trump, Government, News, politics, Republicans, trump

The Trump White House is determined to shut down the government on Dec. 21, in an attempt to get funding for a border wall with Mexico. So what happens to federal services if the government closes for business?

During a shutdown, the US government “must discontinue a...

The most screwed-up employee perk in America (and the man who just might fix it)

December 10, 2018 Affordable Care Act, Government, health insurance, healthcare, medicine, News, obamacare, politics, US healthcare

The last time Atul Gawande started a company, he named it after a Greek myth.

Ariadne Labs, based in Boston, Massachusetts—where Gawande also works as a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard—has been trying since 2012 to innovate in an area that has historically resisted innovat...

The new VA.gov shows what’s possible for government tech after the Healthcare.gov disaster

November 15, 2018 Government, News

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White House economists say federal programs helped end poverty. Now they want to end the programs

July 19, 2018 Donald Trump, Government, Medicare, News, politics

“Based on historical standards of material wellbeing and the terms of engagement, our War on Poverty is largely over and a success,” wrote the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors in a report relea...

The real effects of America’s federal taxes

April 11, 2018 Government, News, politics

As another tax deadline approaches in the US, it’s worth taking a moment to think about why we fork over a portion of our hard-earned income every year, and what effect the ritual really has.

Pay checks for most Americans stagnated in the last 35 years. Economic forces rew...