How much would female reproductive health cost in your state without Obamacare?

November 9, 2017 Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, Gender, GOP, health care, News, obamacare, politics, Women

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In 24 hours, the Republican National Committee completely changed its tune about Virginia

November 8, 2017 Donald Trump, News, politics

Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was in damage control mode on Wednesday morning, insisting that Democrat Ralph Northam’s victory in Virginia over Ed Gillespie was just business as usual — despite saying yesterday that the RNC was “all in” on Virginia.

“Ed’s finishing strong, he’s putting forward a positive vision for Virginia,” McDaniel told Fox’s Harris Faulkner on Tuesday. “The President̵...

Brown, queer, transgender, and not Christian: Meet the new wave of progressive lawmakers

November 8, 2017 lgbtq, News, politics, religion

Tuesday night was historic. Amid high turnout across Virginia, New Jersey, Washington, and elsewhere, voters elected a range of progressive candidates, many whose victories signify the first time queer and transgender people, communities of color, and religious minorities will be represented in office.

Here are a few of the next wave of diverse U.S. lawmakers.
Danica Roem, Virginia
Manassas Park Democrat Danica Roem triumphed over one of Virginia’s most socially conserv...

Election night’s silver cloud for progressives has a lead lining in Ohio

November 8, 2017 health care, medicaid, News, politics

Voters rejected a proposal aimed at slashing prescription drug prices for Ohio’s 3 million Medicaid recipients on Tuesday by a 4-to-1 margin after pharmaceutical companies raised about $60 million for ads and organizing against the measure.

The measure would likely have incurred a legal battle had it passed. It mandated that Medicaid bean-counters pay the same prices that drug companies offer to Veterans Affairs beneficiaries, without specifying how exactly the low-income heal...

Maine embraces Obamacare, votes to expand Medicaid to 70,000 low-income people

November 8, 2017 Affordable Care Act, health care, medicaid, News, politics

Tens of thousands of low-income people previously locked out of affordable coverage got good news tonight.

Voters in Maine elected to expand the Medicaid program, which offers health insurance to low-income people. Before this ballot measure’s success, the state’s legislature repeatedly tried to expand Medicaid, but Gov. Paul LePage (R) issued five different vetoes blocking the legislation.

The Medicaid expansion is a major provision of the Affordable Care Act, bu...

Trump tried to explain his tax plan. It was a disaster.

November 1, 2017 Donald Trump, News, politics

Addressing reporters in the White House on Wednesday, President Trump tried to explain how he plans to shepherd his tax cut plan through Congress. As was the case during his failed push to repeal Obamacare, Trump couldn’t do it.

Trump began with a painfully obvious reminder — legislation is a result of a collaborative effort between the two chambers of Congress.

“In the House, I must tell you, they’ve been working really hard, and they’re coming ...

Meet the ‘prophets of the resistance’: Faith leaders battle white supremacy and Trump

October 31, 2017 News, politics, religion, religious-left

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA — Bishop Dwayne Royster wasn’t even halfway through his speech, but members of the crowd were already on their feet. With one hand doggedly clutching the wooden pulpit at the front of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, he suddenly threw his other arm in the air as he kicked his message into high gear, working the impromptu congregation into a spiritual frenzy—and a political one.

“We’re not the ‘nice’ faith people!” he bellowed...

While the nation focused on Mueller, Trump proposed dangerous changes to Obamacare

October 30, 2017 Donald Trump, health, health care, News, obamacare, politics

On Friday, shortly before word of pending indictments from Special Counsel Robert Mueller sucked up all the oxygen in the news cycle, the Trump administration dropped a 365-page proposal including numerous potential tweaks to the rules governing Obamacare. Among other things, the proposed rulemaking from the Department of Health and Human Services could allow insurers to sell stripped down health plans in the Obamacare exchanges, potentially leaving people without coverage when they need i...