Virginia State Delegate Danica Roem talks with Rachel Maddow about the political and activist momentum that pushed Virginia to a bipartisan passage of the long blocked Medicaid expansion that was part of the platform of many newly elected Democrats.
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Virginia Democrats make good on promise of more health care
Rachel Maddow reports on a Democratic wave in Virginia that came to office promising Medicaid expansion after years of Republican obstruction and delivered on that promise this week.
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Medicaid expansion takes another big step…
Virginia Democrats ran on a platform that emphasized Medicaid expansion. It made this week an elections-have-consequences moment.
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Paul Ryan bolsters Democratic concerns…
Democrats want to tell voters that the GOP tax plan represents a threat to Social Security and Medicare. Paul Ryan is helping prove Dems right.
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Senator says GOP must work on health care reform
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., discusses her re-election campaign, gun reform, U.S. foreign policy regarding Iraq and Syria and lowering the cost of hearings aids as an example of a bipartisan DC win that doesn't get the coverage that fighting does.
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As ACA support climbs, Hatch calls law’s…
A clear majority of Americans now support the Affordable Care Act. Orrin Hatch suggested these Americans are "dumbass people."
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Trump covers just about everything in his CPAC speech
What didn’t the president cover in his speech this week to conservatives? From Obamacare to his methods for hiding his bald spot, Kasie DC highlights almost all of the topics President Trump was able to cover during his CPAC speech.
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Republican sabotage efforts fail to…
Trump spent months insisting the ACA is "dead" and "gone." Forgive the obvious cliché, but the reports of the Obamacare's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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UK leaders rebuke Trump for health care tweet
After Donald Trump tweeted that thousands were marching in the UK because their universal health care system is "going broke and not working," British leaders shut him down.
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2018 will not be the year the GOP repeals…
If the right is counting on 2018 being the year of the Affordable Care Act's demise, they should lower their expectations.
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