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…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to ease rules that require employers to offer birth control coverage, arguing that the proposal poses a danger to women’s health.
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The temptation to mash all the keys on the keyboard nears full capacity, so I’m just going to bundle the Trump news for the sake of not having a shitty day.
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.
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On Friday, the Trump administration rolled back the Obamacare birth control mandate, offering an exemption on religious or moral grounds to employers who had been required to include birth control coverage in insurance plans—and that was just the latest sign that the Trump administration is following the standard,…
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“If you want a hearing, you better shut up,” Senator Orrin Hatch told a group of protesters who had arrived at Monday afternoon’s Finance Committee hearing to voice their concerns about the revised Graham-Cassidy bill. Last week, Graham-Cassidy, the latest Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, looked like…
On Tuesday, Vox’s Jeff Stein interviewed nine Republican senators to try to get them to explain how the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal/replace bill will help Americans. To be fair, this is a tough question, because the bill almost certainly will not help anyone—it will actually probably hurt people. It hasn’t been…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
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.
There are a lot of people to thank for last week’s failure to pass the Obamacare replacement and repeal bill in the Senate, including the three Republican senators who broke with party lines to vote against the bill. But the role that activists played—particularly women and advocates for disability rights—cannot be…
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.
In an interview with MSNBC, Representative Buddy Carter (R-GA) defended Donald Trump’s Wednesday morning Twitter attacks on Senator Lisa Murkowski saying that, “Somebody needs to go over to the Senate and snatch a knot in their ass.” (For those of you who are not fluent in the lingo of the deep south, to “snatch a…
Numerous reports suggest that the Senate, lacking the votes to pass either the Better Care Reconciliation Act or a straight repeal of Obamacare, will vote on a so-called “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday afternoon. The “skinny repeal” would likely end the ACA’s mandate that individuals buy…
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.
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According to Representative Blake Farenthold (R-TX), three “female senators from the Northeast,” are to blame for the Senate’s inability to repeal Obamacare.