affordable care act repeal
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Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever. Not Sure Why, Though
It has been 10 years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into legislation. Given the amount of bitching that’s been done around the law over the last decade you would think it was a deeply unpopular policy. Turns out, that’s not the case at all. NBC News released a poll that shows more voters…
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The Zombie Obamacare Repeal Is Dead … for Now
One of the biggest losses in the Trump era hasn’t just been common decency, civil discourse or some semblance of global respect. We all knew those Ls were coming when Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination. The nation has also lost the kind of House of Cards-esque maneuvering that was the calling card of…
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Report: Life Expectancy for Black Americans Improves, Racial Mortality Gap Closing
A report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that since 1999, the life expectancy for black Americans has improved dramatically, and the mortality gap between white and black Americans has been cut in half. Between 1999 and 2015, there was a 25 percent overall drop in the death rate for…
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Dems Sing ‘Na Na Na … Goodbye’ as House Votes to Repeal Obamacare
House Democrats taunted their Republican counterparts as GOP representatives passed a bill that would erase the signature legislation of the Obama administration and replace it with a tax break for the wealthiest Americans and simultaneously karate-chop 24 million Americans in their soon-to-be uninsured throats. Knowing that it won’t cover the millions of people with pre-existing…
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GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz to the Poor: Health Care or an iPhone; Can’t Have Both!
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is a horrible person. During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, the horrible Chaffetz was being challenged on House Republicans’ newly released proposed health care bill, the American Health Care Act. Host Alisyn Camerota argued that accessibility to health care doesn’t make it affordable, to which the horrible Chaffetz replied: “So…
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7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Worry About the Repeal of Obamacare
On Monday the man we elected (and by “we,” you know who I mean) to solve America’s problems and make the country great again emerged from a meeting with the nation’s governors glassy-eyed, as if he had just been told he was going to have to take an IQ test or get hooked up to…
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Former House Speaker John Boehner Says Obamacare Will Not Be Repealed
Ohio Republican and former House Speaker John Boehner told attendees at an Orlando health care conference Thursday that a full repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, “is not going to happen.” The Washington Post reports that Boehner, who was ousted by conservatives in 2015, said he started laughing when…
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Repealing Major Parts of Affordable Care Act Would Cause 18,000,000 to Lose Coverage in 1st Year
According to a report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday, repealing portions of the Affordable Care Act would cause 18 million people to lose their coverage in the first year, and that number would increase to 32 million by the year 2026. The budget office created the report by analyzing the probable…