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2017: The year when incompetence saved America

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Close your eyes for a few seconds and remember the despair you felt one year ago, while a Trump presidency was still a looming but unavoidable nightmare.

Donald Trump, a man with no empathy and even less grasp of policy nuances, was the president-elect. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), a man who literally fantasized about cutting health benefits for poor people during his college keg parties, had spent the Obama years rallying his fellow Republican lawmakers around a singularly cruel agend...

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Trumpcare is here

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Just two weeks after the Senate once again tried — and failed — to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, it’s become eminently clear that those failures don’t matter. Trumpcare has arrived.

On Thursday morning, President Trump signed an executive order that will allow people to buy stripped down health insurance plans if they’re unsatisfied with options offered on the Obamacare exchanges, and hours later the White House confirmed Trump will stop making critic...

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‘It was a group of 13 men who did it’: Republican senator criticizes GOP health care reform efforts

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During a Friday morning speech in which she announced she’ll forgo a run for governor and stay in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) criticized Senate Republican leadership for shutting women out of the process of developing health care legislation.

Amid a broader critique of the secretive process Republicans used in their failed attempts to repeal Obamacare earlier this year, Collins decried that “the Senate Republican health care bills were drafted behind close...

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Mental illness rates are spiking, and its victims feel forgotten by the Trump administration

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The first week of October marks the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ (NAMI’s) Mental Illness Awareness Week. Nine months into Donald Trump’s presidency — and nearly one year after his victory sparked a flurry of self-care and self-help articles — the new normal is taking a toll on Americans, and there’s still no sign of change in our policies.

Nicole Nadeau, a 26-year-old from Georgia, suffers from severe anxiety, which, she says, became noticeably worse after Trump ...

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Republican senator calls health care, food, and shelter a ‘privilege’

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When asked by a high school student in Wisconsin whether he considered health care a right or a privilege, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) compared access to health care to access to food and shelter, arguing that all three should be considered “privileges” for those who can afford them.

“I think it’s probably more of a privilege,” Johnson said in response to the question. “Do you consider food a right? Do you consider clothing a right? Do you consider...

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Here are all the ways Trump could still sabotage Obamacare

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Following the failure of the latest Republican health care bill, which couldn’t muster enough votes to pass, President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to promise, yet again, to kill Obamacare.

With one Yes vote in hospital & very positive signs from Alaska and two others (McCain is out), we have the HCare Vote, but not for Friday!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2017

That’s a good reminder that the pu...

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When Cassidy’s health clinic closed, its patients only saving grace was Obamacare

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Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic — a virtual health clinic in Louisiana co-founded by then-doctor and now Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — closed in July 2015. It had been getting increasingly harder to get grants to fund the ‘clinic without walls,’ which connected uninsured people who needed care to providers; it was a free clinic and received no federal or state funds. After much deliberation, the clinic shut its doors. 

“We felt better about closing th...

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