A poll earlier this week showed Mike Espy one point behind Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi race. Espy says that health care is one of the biggest issues in his state and he thinks medicare expansion can address the health care of a quarter of
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Joy Reid: Trump is not protecting pre-existing conditions, and has no real plan to replace ACA
Joy talks to Congresswoman Donna Shalala about Trump’s Executive Order on pre-existing conditions, and both agree that the president is not aiming to protect one of the most popular portions of the Affordable Care Act. Congresswoman Shalala says, "There's
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Sen. Doug Jones: Health care is ‘being jeopardized’ by Trump, McConnell
On another Supreme Court seat being potentially filled by President Trump, Sen. Doug Jones brings up the topic of health care and how dismantling the Affordable Care Act 'jeopardizes' health care for millions: "Health care in this country is being
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Activists draw on successful defense of health care for energy in SCOTUS pressure campaign
Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, talks with Rachel Maddow about the role of citizen political pressure in turning back the Republican effort to kill the Affordable Care Act, and how that same strategy can be applied to protecting Ruth
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Pelosi: Protect your children from what GOP is trying to do to Supreme Court
Speaker Pelosi on Senate Republicans: “They are on a path to undo the Affordable Care Act. They are on a path to undo a woman’s right to choose. And there are many more issues that relate to the LGBTQ movement. Clean air, clean water, pollution. They’re
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Pelosi: Republicans want to crush Obamacare, not Covid-19
“Many of these senators are looking at their next election,” says Speaker Pelosi on the fate of the Affordable Care Act amid the Supreme Court vacancy. “Women, people of color in their states will remember if they gave them a vote for their healthcare, or
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GOP seeking RBG’s seat, healthcare repeal analyzed by Stabenow
Senate Republicans seeking the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, plus the repeal of Obamacare, and more are analyzed by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). Stabenow tells Jonathan Capehart, ‘Our power comes from all of us speaking out, and
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Kathleen Sebelius on Supreme Court vacancy: ‘The entire Affordable Care Act is at stake’
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says millions of Americans will lose their healthcare if a conservative-led Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act after a planned November case hearing.
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Pete Williams breaks down future Supreme Court scenarios
From an eight-Justice bench hearing arguments on Obamacare to the likelihood of a confirmation vote on Ginsburg’s replacement, NBC News’ Pete Williams walks through future scenarios.
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Pelosi: We’re supposed to be crushing the virus; Trump is crushing the ACA
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushes back against claims the president has a plan to cover pre-existing conditions and says the president is working to crush the Affordable Care Act.
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