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Health Care
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medicare for all
New Poll Finds Majority of GOP Voters Support Medicare for AllIt isn’t politically risky for Democrats to campaign on Medicare for All. But actually implementing it will be a different story.
By Eric Levitz
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Top Maine Court Orders GOP Governor to Stop Ignoring Voters and Expand MedicaidMaine’s fiery right-wing governor has vowed to go to jail before allowing a Medicaid expansion. He may get his wish.
By Ed Kilgore
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The Fight to Secure Vulnerable Medical Devices From Hackers“The big problem is that hospitals don’t buy new devices, and they keep using really dangerous ones ad infinitum — until they just stop working.”
By Lindsay Gellman
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The Trump Administration Is Launching Stealth Attacks on VeteransThe White House is making it easier for predatory lenders to profit off veterans’ misplaced trust, while letting Trump’s golfing buddies rule the VA.
By Eric Levitz
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Trump’s New Insurance Rules Put Women and Children at Risk“These plans aren’t for everyone,” says HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
By Sarah Nechamkin
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Trump Administration Aims to Steer People to Junk Health Plans Over ObamacareIn addition to cutting most funding for Obamacare navigators, the administration is urging counselors to plug plans that don’t meet ACA requirements.
By Margaret Hartmann
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How Democrats Plan to Turn Kennedy’s Retirement Into a Political WinThe party will block Trump’s next Supreme Court justice — or, at least, remind voters that the GOP is a threat to their health care while trying.
By Eric Levitz
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Californians Will Be Voting on a Wild Array of Ballot Initiatives in NovemberFrom repeal of a controversial gas-tax increase to a mandate for cage-free eggs, other issues will compete with candidates for money and attention.
By Ed Kilgore
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How to Be a Parent in AmericaWe have to give up on the idea that common ground makes a difference to people willing to commit atrocities.
By Jen Gann
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Trump’s Latest Attack on Obamacare Is a Huge Gift to DemocratsThe White House’s push to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions is the perfect campaign issue for Democratic candidates.
By Eric Levitz
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Voters Who Like ‘Medicare for All’ May Not Support Single-PayerTruth is, single-payer is very different from Medicare, even if it borrows the Medicare “brand.”
By Ed Kilgore
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Drug Firm Paid Michael Cohen $1.2 Million for Insight Into Trump’s Policy ViewsAfter 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 Levitz
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Trump Adds ‘Cutting Children’s Health Care’ to GOP’s 2018 PlatformDemocrats 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 Levitz
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Michigan’s Proposed Medicaid Work Requirement Comes With a Racist TwistThe bill exempts residents of high-unemployment rural areas, but hangs those in high-unemployment cities out to dry.
By Adam K. Raymond
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Elderly White Voters Are Starting to Turn on the GOPIn 2016, older, college-educated white voters favored a Republican Congress by ten points. Today, they support a Democratic one.
By Eric Levitz
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Study: Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage Will Leave Millions More UninsuredThe Urban Institute finds that Trump’s changes to Obamacare will increase premiums by 20 percent and leave 5 million more people uninsured.
By Eric Levitz
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Liberal Think Tank Unveils New Alternative to Single-Payer Health CareYou 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 Kilgore
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The White House Accidentally Made the Case for Single-Payer Health CareTrump’s team of economists argues that Medicaid is bad because it covers too few people.
By Eric Levitz
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Trump Administration Proposes Obamacare-Flouting Health PlansThe administration is attempting to kill the law by a thousand cuts.
By Benjamin Hart
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Amazon Should Not Be in Charge of Solving Our Health-Care CrisisDemocratically unaccountable private actors shouldn’t be responsible for performing the state’s traditional functions. But, increasingly, they are.
By Eric Levitz
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legalized discrimination
The ‘Conscience and Religious Freedom Division’ Will Help Doctors DiscriminateIt will protect health workers who don’t want to treat transgender patients or women seeking abortions.
By Amanda Arnold
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bearing children
Congress Is Threatening Kids’ Health CareGrown-ups are supposed to help kids stay healthy.
By Jen Gann
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last night on late night
Baby Billy Kimmel Joins Father Jimmy to Discuss Children’s Health-Care CrisisThe host, who was off last week for Billy’s heart surgery, wants Congress to renew a program that covers 9 million kids.
By Halle Kiefer
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On Tax Bill, Collins Accepted Health-Care Promises Written in Vanishing InkTurns 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 Kilgore
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Will the Government Avoid a Shutdown? 5 Key QuestionsA 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 Kilgore
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CVS Finalizes $69 Billion Deal to Buy AetnaThe merger, if approved, could dramatically reshape the health-care industry.
By Chas Danner
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The Fight Over Net Neutrality Is a Protection RacketNice internet you have there — a shame if something happened to it.
By Jacob Silverman
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Too Many Doctors Still Believe Dangerous Racial StereotypesThe online outrage over a medical textbook barely begins to address a widespread problem.
By Alice Robb
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Trump Moves to Gut Obamacare Benefits RequirementsIt looks like another effort to sabotage Obamacare.
By Ed Kilgore
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Would ‘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 Levitz
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New GOP Obamacare ‘Fix’ Alternative Is Really Just a Poison PillThe GOP has drafted a bill that won’t get any Democratic support.
By Ed Kilgore
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Republicans Appear Uninterested in Deal to Fix Trump’s Obamacare MessThough Trump said he backs the deal reached by senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, it got a cool response from Republican lawmakers.
By Margaret Hartmann
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How Trump’s New Executive Order Could Kill ObamacareThe new rules are designed to dramatically increase premiums in the Obamacare marketplaces — potentially inducing their collapse.
By Eric Levitz
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House Budget Vote Necessary, But Not Enough, in the GOP’s Tax Cut PlansThe GOP dissenters in the House’s vote on a budget resolution setting up tax cuts indicate some potential problems ahead for the GOP.
By Ed Kilgore
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Tom Price Resigns as Health and Human Services SecretaryAfter reports emerged about his expensive private jet travel.
By Benjamin Hart
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GOP Tax ‘Simplification’ Initiative So, So ComplicatedYou’d think a nice, modest, balanced tax cut would be easy for a GOP Congress and White House to execute. But the GOP keeps complicating it all.
By Ed Kilgore
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the national circus
Frank Rich: Roy Moore’s Victory Only Adds to Trump’s Power Over the GOPThe president may have backed the wrong guy in Alabama’s Senate race, but the revolution continues.
By Frank Rich
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the national interest
GOP’s Two-Pronged Strategy to Pass Health Care: Deceit and Reckless SpeedThe willingness to blindly unleash sweeping and potentially catastrophic changes is a testament to an ongoing ideological mania.
By Jonathan Chait
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GOP Health Bill Now Includes More Blatant Bribes for Likely ‘No’ VotesThe new Graham-Cassidy is supposed to provide more money for Alaska and Maine, but policy experts say the Republicans’ math is wrong.
By Margaret Hartmann
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Seth Meyers Takes “A Closer Look” at the GOP’s Latest Attempt to Repeal […]Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Republicans’ latest attempt to repeal Obamacare with the […]
By Megh Wright
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Government’s Own Estimate Shows the GOP Health Bill Is a Disaster for AlaskaThe numbers undecided senator Lisa Murkowski wanted are in. They show Alaska losing 38 percent of its federal health funding by 2026.
By Margaret Hartmann
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sick sad babies
What to Do If the Health-Care Bill Makes You Want to SwearBe like Joe Scarborough and go ahead and swear. Then call your senators.
By Jen Gann
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Lewis Black Covers the GOP’s “Douche Document” of a Healthcare Bill on […]Here’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Lewis Black stopped by for a new installment of “Back in Black” about the GOP’s new […]
By Megh Wright
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