Trump’s Latest Attack on Obamacare Is a Huge Gift to Democrats
The White House’s push to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions is the perfect campaign issue for Democratic candidates.
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After one meeting with Cohen, Novartis realized that he had no knowledge of Trump’s health-care plans. It had to pay him $100,000 a month, anyway.
By Eric LevitzTrump Adds ‘Cutting Children’s Health Care’ to GOP’s 2018 Platform
Democrats say Republicans will pay for their tax cuts by taking health care from working people. Trump is about to affirm this campaign message.
By Eric LevitzMichigan’s Proposed Medicaid Work Requirement Comes With a Racist Twist
The bill exempts residents of high-unemployment rural areas, but hangs those in high-unemployment cities out to dry.
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Elderly White Voters Are Starting to Turn on the GOP
In 2016, older, college-educated white voters favored a Republican Congress by ten points. Today, they support a Democratic one.
By Eric LevitzStudy: Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage Will Leave Millions More Uninsured
The Urban Institute finds that Trump’s changes to Obamacare will increase premiums by 20 percent and leave 5 million more people uninsured.
By Eric LevitzLiberal Think Tank Unveils New Alternative to Single-Payer Health Care
You can view the new CAP proposal as a sign of growing Democratic progressivism, or as a way to avoid the problems with single-payer plans.
By Ed KilgoreTrump Administration Proposes Obamacare-Flouting Health Plans
The administration is attempting to kill the law by a thousand cuts.
By Benjamin HartAmazon Should Not Be in Charge of Solving Our Health-Care Crisis
Democratically unaccountable private actors shouldn’t be responsible for performing the state’s traditional functions. But, increasingly, they are.
By Eric LevitzNew ‘Conscience and Religious Freedom Division’ Will Help Health Workers Discriminate
It will protect health workers who don’t want to treat transgender patients or women seeking abortions.
By Amanda ArnoldCongress Is Threatening Kids’ Health Care
Grown-ups are supposed to help kids stay healthy.
By Jen GannTiny Baby Billy Kimmel Joins Father Jimmy to Discuss Children’s Health-Care Crisis
The host, who was off last week for Billy’s heart surgery, wants Congress to renew a program that covers 9 million kids.
By Halle KieferSusan Collins Wanted to ‘Get to Yes’ on Tax Bill So Badly She Accepted Promises Written in Vanishing Ink
Turns out House Republicans don’t feel bound by the promises made to Susan Collins by Trump and McConnell to get her vote for the tax bill.
By Ed KilgoreWill the Government Avoid a Shutdown? 5 Key Questions
A government shutdown is unlikely. But if talks wander onto non-spending topics, and each side thinks the other will be blamed, it could happen.
By Ed KilgoreCVS Finalizes $69 Billion Deal to Buy Aetna
The merger, if approved, could dramatically reshape the health-care industry.
By Chas DannerToo Many Doctors Still Believe Dangerous Racial Stereotypes
The online outrage over a medical textbook barely begins to address a widespread problem.
By Alice RobbTrump Moves to Gut Obamacare Benefits Requirements
It looks like another effort to sabotage Obamacare.
By Ed KilgoreWould ‘Medicaid for All’ Cure What Ails Our Health-Care System?
An interview with Senator Brian Schatz on his new plan to let all Americans buy into the federal program.
By Eric LevitzNew GOP Obamacare ‘Fix’ Alternative Is Really Just a Poison Pill
The GOP has drafted a bill that won’t get any Democratic support.
By Ed KilgoreDemocrats Must Soon Decide Whether Single-Payer Is a Litmus Test
Should Democrats abandon incremental approaches to health care?
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