affordable care act
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Affordable Care Act Reduces Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment: Report
It turns out the Affordable Care Act may have acted to make care affordable and accessible to black folks. According to new research, the law has been linked to a reduction in racial disparities in the care of cancer patients and to earlier diagnoses and treatment for ovarian cancer, according to the Washington Post. The…
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Trump Administration Plans ‘Maintenance’ Work During Obamacare’s Open Enrollment. Again.
After pushing through a Supreme Court nominee who was clearly unqualified for the High Court, and suffering no real repercussions for tearing families apart, the Trump administration continues on its petty AF tour, announcing that it is planning hours-long downtimes for maintenance on healthcare.gov during the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare)’s open enrollment period. I…
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Despite Trump’s Best Efforts, Obamacare Enrollment Reaches New Highs
Despite dogged attempts by Donald Trump and the GOP to throw salt on Obamacare, early data shows that Americans are signing up for it in record numbers. The Hill reports that on Nov. 1, the first day of open enrollment for health insurance under Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, 200,000 Americans signed up for…
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Your Petty-Ass President Has Declared Obamacare ‘Dead,’ but in a Karmic Twist of Fate, the People Who Put Him in Office Will Probably Suffer Most
We know that “the truth” is a relative concept in the Trump White House, so no one was surprised when President von FuckFace (kudos, Stephen A. Crockett Jr.) declared that Obamacare was “finished,” “dead” and “gone” Monday. It’s true that if Obamacare were a person, he very well might be on his deathbed, since Donald…
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Trump Just Signed an Executive Order Crippling Obamacare
The president of undoing former President Barack Obama’s legacy is back on his bullshit, signing an executive order Thursday to undo portions of Obamacare because he and his lame crew can’t present a decent health care plan that makes sense. Trump claimed that the order is “starting that process” to repeal the Affordable Care Act…
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Trump Administration Removes Mandate to Cover Birth Control From Obamacare
Birth control will now be harder for some women to get, depending on who their employer is. The Trump administration decided Friday that, effective immediately, any employer can claim a religious or moral objection to providing birth control coverage under its insurance plan. The Obamacare mandate that requires birth control to be provided at no…
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I Watched CNN Debate Night: The Fight Over Obamacare. I Would Like Most of Those Minutes Back
In theory, a cable news network holding debates between members of different parties arguing over the merits of their respective policies seems like a novel idea. However, because we largely consume for-profit media, these debates often prove to be more about spectacle than anything substantive. Therein lies the problem with “infotainment”: the intent is geared…
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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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So Maybe John McCain Found Some Courage In Between A Couch Cushion
Earlier this week, I wrote that by receiving government-funded health care to deal with his terminal brain cancer, and returning to D.C. to vote for a measure that would snatch benefits away from millions of people, John McCain — whose entire career is built on a maverick/hero narrative — exhibited a level of cowardice unique…