Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s thumbs-down on minimum wage vote reminds some of John McCain

March 6, 2021 News

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's thumbs-down vote on Friday reminded many of when the late Sen. John McCain tanked Republicans' efforts to overthrow Obamacare.

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Republicans want to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives. That should alarm us | David Daley

March 2, 2021 News, Republicans, US news, US politics, World news

State legislators are trying to make it more difficult for citizens to take action when their own representatives won’t
They walked through Michigan college football games dressed as gerrymandered districts. They crisscrossed Idaho in a decades-old RV dubbed the Medicaid Express. In Florida, they united black and white, left and right, Trump-loving “deplorables” and radical criminal justice reformers into a mighty moral movement to end an ugly vestige of Jim Crow.
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Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill includes an expansion of Obamacare. Here’s how it would work

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 News

New insurance subsidies in Democrats' COVID-19 pandemic relief bill would be the first expansion of Obamacare since its creation in 2010.

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At Last, Democrats Get Chance to Engineer Obamacare 2.0

February 27, 2021 Health Insurance and Managed Care, Law and Legislation, medicaid, Medicare, News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)

The Biden administration is trying to make the health care law more generous and closer to its original design, but may disappoint progressive allies hoping for more.

Smuggled into the covid-relief bill is an overdue fix for Obamacare

February 27, 2021 News

America’s health-care law has never been as popular as its proponents hoped. That could soon change

Nursing homes owned by private equity have higher death rates

February 25, 2021 healthcare, News

Between 2004 and 2016 there were 20,150 excess deaths in American nursing homes, amounting to an estimated 160,000 lost years of life. The cause wasn’t a pandemic, but private equity.
Economists analyzed the mortality of patients in 18,485 nursing homes acquired by private equity companies between 2000 and 2017, versus other forms of for-profit ownership. It found that the likelihood of dying in a nursing home within the first 90 days of being admitted—a measure that’s a pr...

What Does The ‘War’ Over Obamacare Reveal About Our Governing Bodies?

February 23, 2021 News

In his new book, The Ten Year War, Jonathan Cohn looks at the intense debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act, the compromises of the law itself, and the ongoing fight for universal health care.

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to Trump administration’s public charge rule

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 News

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a case brought by various groups and state and local officials challenging a Trump-era rule that makes it more difficult for immigrants to obtain legal status if they use public benefits, such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers.
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The Ten Year War review: Obamacare, Trump and Biden’s battles yet to come

February 21, 2021 Democrats, Donald Trump, News, Republicans, Trump administration, US Congress, US domestic policy, US healthcare, US news, US politics

Jonathan Cohn’s study of the fight for healthcare coverage delivers depth, dish and much for Democrats to ponder
Once upon a time, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was unpopular, viewed by many as welfare redux. Barack Obama’s promise that “If you like your healthcare plan, you’ll be able to keep your healthcare plan”, didn’t exactly work out. By the middle of the 2010s, so-called Obamacare had cost the Democrats both houses of Congress.
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Biden to pick Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, sources say

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 News

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, two sources familiar with the decision told CNN.
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