In February, Texas and 19 attorney generals of other Republican-led states filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday night, the DOJ sided with them, saying that it won’t defend the Obama-era healthcare law “with the approval of the President of the United…
Several states are banding together to file a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s decision yesterday to kill off subsidies crucial to Obamacare, which help decrease medical expenses for millions around the country.
Having failed to pass a new form of health care, the Trump administration is taking steps to make good on its word to let Obamacare wither and die, beginning with slashing outreach efforts for its upcoming enrollment season by 90 percent and shrinking the enrollment period by half.
In an interview with Chelsea Handler at Politicon last night, Tomi Lahren admitted that “luckily, I’m 24, so I’m still on my parents’ [health care plan],” meaning that she benefits from–not just luck!–but the Obamacare provision that you can stay on your parents’ plan until you’re 26, the Daily Beast reports.
On Thursday afternoon, the Senate is expected to vote on what’s been dubbed the “skinny repeal,” a stripped down version of the full Obamacare repeal that failed to pass on Wednesday afternoon.
Days after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, Senator John McCain will return to the Senate on Tuesday to vote on GOP healthcare legislation.
On Monday afternoon, Donald Trump will deliver a statement on healthcare which, incidentally, Americans need more than ever seeing as we’ve all developed ulcers in the last six months. While efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act have—much to Trump’s chagrin—so far been unsuccessful, we can’t breathe easy yet.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s $4.1 trillion budget proposal will be officially introduced, but we already know some of its more grisly details. Our orb-fondling, foot-swallowing POTUS imagines a vastly restructured government without the Affordable Care Act, reshaped by tremendous lacerations to Medicaid, food stamp, and…
Once upon a time, the United States of America had a dignified President who successfully connected subjects to verbs multiple times a day. Tonight that former—I’m sorry, I need a moment after typing that word—president, Barack Obama, received the John F. Kennedy “Profile in Courage” Award in Boston. And during his…
In an uncharacteristically emotional opening to his late-night talk show Monday evening, Jimmy Kimmel shared a story about his son William’s very recent battle with heart disease and invasive surgery. By “very recent” I mean this all happened in the past two weeks—when the child was just days old.
On Monday, Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks joined Jake Tapper on CNN to promote “Trumpcare,” the new proposed replacement for the Affordable Care Act. And in so doing, he touted one aspect of the plan in candidly selfish terms: those who are healthy will no longer be burdened by the medical needs of the sick.
This one’s rich. Paul Ryan, architect of the mercifully failed ACHA, had the gall on Sunday to tweet a photo of himself wearing a blue puzzle piece pin on his lapel. It’s a show of solidarity in recognition of World Autism Awareness Day, a subject near and dear to Ryan’s hea—ha ha, just kidding. He truly does not give…
In an effort to make the American Health Care Act—the GOP’s replacement to the Affordable Care Act—more palatable to the far-right, Republicans added on an amendment that would make the plan even worse for women. Among the most flagrant additions to Paul Ryan’s “Manager’s Amendment,” according to Slate, is one that…
Utah Congressman and House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz appeared on CNN’s New Day to discuss the new Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act and, in doing so, once again confirmed that he is a real-life Ebenezer Scrooge.
After much ado, House Republicans have released their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare). If passed, millions of people could lose health coverage, and Planned Parenthood will be entirely stripped of funding.
Donald Trump wasn’t even inaugurated when Senate Republicans started to dismantle Obamacare in mid-January. They were right to think that the incoming president would be as supportive of these measures as he was unable to understand them.
Town hall meetings are underway across the country this week as members of Congress return to their districts during the congressional recess. Well, sort of—only 19 Republican members of Congress are holding town hall meetings during the recess, and notably none of them are located in Utah, where Rep. Jason Chaffetz…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to style himself as a leader of the democratic anti-Trump resistance (presidential aspirations beckon, no doubt), with his announcement on Saturday that he is widening reproductive rights protections for the New York women he serves. The guy definitely has his faults, but at…
A Philadelphia woman says her call with a staffer of U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) ended abruptly after she, having called Toomey’s office to voice her disproval regarding the likely repeal of the Affordable Care Act and defunding of Planned Parenthood, used the word “menstruation” and was chided for her “graphic”…
Donald Trump has selected Republican congressman Tom Price as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Price, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is known in Washington, D.C. as one of the Affordable Care Act’s most vehement critics.
