Biden calls for Sanders to disown ‘doctored’ video on Social Security

January 19, 2020 News, US news, US politics

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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

January 18, 2020 News

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

January 17, 2020January 18, 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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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.

Reuters

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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.