Obama pushes Obamacare enrollment as deadline looms

December 10, 2018 News

Hoping to push more people to sign up for Obamacare amid lagging enrollment, former President Barack Obama urged Americans Monday to check out healthcare.gov before the December 15 deadline.

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Obama promises “no memes” in final plea to sign up for Obamacare

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 News

Former President Barack Obama promises no gimmicks this year to stress the importance of signing up for health insurance before Saturday's deadline

U.S. top court, Kavanaugh spurn Planned Parenthood defunding case

December 10, 2018December 11, 2018 News, topNews

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by Louisiana and Kansas seeking to end their public funding to women's healthcare and abortion provider Planned Parenthood through the Medicaid program, with President Donald Trump's appointee Brett Kavanaugh among the justices who rebuffed the states.

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U.S. top court spurns Louisiana, Kansas on Planned Parenthood cuts

December 10, 2018 News, topNews

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected appeals by Louisiana and Kansas seeking to end their public funding to women's healthcare and abortion provider Planned Parenthood through the Medicaid program, with President Donald Trump's appointee Brett Kavanaugh among the justices who rebuffed the states.

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Supreme Court Declines Key Planned Parenthood Case

December 10, 2018 News

The case means women can continue to use Medicaid money to pay for non-abortion, pregnancy-related health care services at Planned Parenthood. Two states tried to block that.
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SCOTUS deals blow to two states’ attempts to cut Planned Parenthood funding

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 News, politics

The Supreme Court today dealt a blow to two states' attempts to hamstring Planned Parenthood clinics by disqualifying them from public Medicaid funds.

The Supreme Court just gave us its first view of how it will handle abortion in the Kavanaugh era

December 10, 2018 medicaid, News, planned-parenthood, politics

The Supreme Court handed down a surprising order on Monday, announcing it will not hear a pair of cases asking, among other things, how much power conservative states have to defund Planned Parenthood. The order is surprising because, as Justice Clarence Thomas notes in a dissent joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, the two cases meet the ordinary criteria the Supreme Court uses to determine which cases it should hear.

“One of this Court’s primary functions is to ...

Supreme Court leaves in place rulings allowing Medicaid recipients to sue states for disqualifying Planned Parenthood

December 10, 2018 News

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up two cases challenging whether Medicaid recipients can sue states over their decision to drop Planned Parenthood as a qualified provider.Louisiana and Kansas decided to...

Supreme Court declines to review rulings that blocked efforts to end Planned Parenthood funding

December 10, 2018 News

The decision leaves in place lower court rulings that Medicaid recipients who receive services from Planned Parenthood can challenge a state’s decision to cut off public funding.

U.S. top court rebuffs state bids to cut Planned Parenthood funds

December 10, 2018 News, topNews

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to Louisiana and Kansas, turning away their appeals of lower court rulings that blocked their efforts to end public funding to Planned Parenthood, a national women's healthcare and abortion provider, through the Medicaid program.
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