Republicans who voted to repeal pre-existing conditions protections run ads pretending they didn’t

September 20, 2018 health, News, obamacare, politics, trumpcare

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 banned the long-standing practice of health insurers discriminating against customers on the basis of their pre-existing conditions. The Trumpcare legislation that narrowly passed the House of Representatives last May would have repealed these protections and replaced them with a system in which insurers could charge much higher premiums to those patients. Now, vulnerable House Republicans who voted for the wildly unpopular bill have to defend their votes th...

The subtle way Neil Gorsuch stabbed Brett Kavanaugh in the back

September 19, 2018 News, politics

As recently as two years ago, there was a very clear playbook for federal appeals court judges who hoped to someday sit on the Supreme Court. Keep your head down. Build prestige in the subtle ways judges gain status within the elite ranks of the legal profession. And whatever you do, don’t take positions on issues that inflame political debate about the Supreme Court.

There’s at least one exception to this rule. Justice Samuel Alito had a very clear anti-abortion record ...

Absurd GOP attack ads claim candidates who back Medicare for All want to take away your health care

September 19, 2018 health, health care, Medicare, News, politics

Faced with tough November races, several Republicans who supported GOP-led proposals to roll back Americans’ health coverage are now attacking their Democratic opponents for supposedly threatening Americans’ health care access by supporting a “Medicare for all” system — which would extend the existing Medicare program’s protections to cover everyone.

Republican Reps. Andy Barr (KY-6), Dave Brat (VA-7), and Kevin Yoder (KS-3) all voted for the Trum...

Would the House GOP plan have prevented ‘price discrimination’ against people with preexisting conditions?

September 19, 2018 News

Republicans are scrambling to defend their efforts to replace Obamacare. We examine a claim that people with preexisting conditions would not face higher prices.

Ahead of Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual assault hearing, the US gears up for political and cultural war

September 18, 2018 Democrats, mitch-mcconnell, News, Republicans

On Sept. 24, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is expected to face the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her as a teenager. The Congressional hearing could decide whether Kavanaugh receives a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the United States. It’...

Republicans want to run on Medicare. Democrats say bring it on.

September 18, 2018 News

The attacks are audacious but not new.

Top White House official eyes entitlement…

September 17, 2018 News

Key GOP officials keep admitting that they want to cut programs like Medicare and Social Security. Maybe the public should believe them.
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Republicans in swing districts are scared to tell voters the truth about Planned Parenthood

September 17, 2018 health, News, planned-parenthood, politics, reproductive-rights

Since anti-abortion advocates released a series of selectively edited and highly misleading videos in 2015 intended to give the false impression that Planned Parenthood clinics inappropriately profit from the sale of aborted fetuses, Republicans in Congress have repeatedly tried to cut off all federal funding that goes to the health non-profit. But as the 2018 midterms draw near, few Republican House candidates in swing districts are talking about it at all — even those who are runni...

No. 1 Aim of Democratic Campaign Ads: Protect Pre-existing Conditions

September 17, 2018 News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), Polls and Public Opinion

Not so many elections ago, Obamacare was a cudgel for Republicans to use against their opponents.

Ocasio-Cortez defends $40 trillion price tag for progressive proposals

September 16, 2018September 16, 2018 News

Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday defended what could accrue to a $40 trillion price tag for progressive policy programs, including Medicare for all, over the next 10 years, citing the success in some European countries that have similarly developed health care models.
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