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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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    Monique Judge

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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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    Michael Harriot

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  • Republican Health Care Proposal Would Exempt Congress and Staff From Pre-Existing Condition Clause

    House Republicans introduced a health care amendment Tuesday night that would allow individual states to opt out of Obamacare’s provision prohibiting insurers from charging higher rates for those with pre-existing conditions, with one catch: Members of Congress and their staff would be exempt from the higher premiums. As Vox notes, in its current iteration, Obamacare…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Understanding #TrumpFlop on Obamacare in 7 Easy Memes and GIFs

    Brutal. Shameful. Embarrassing. America hasn’t seen a politician take an L this bad since Papa Pope read Fitz. In case you missed the sound of a million souls crying out in joy, then suddenly drowned out by loud laughter, the Republicans’ ill-fated attempt to scrap and replace Obamacare flopped miserably today. P90X Ryan (aka the…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Trump Demands Friday Vote on Health Care Plan, Will Keep Obamacare if House Rejects GOP Plan

    White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told GOP lawmakers that President Donald Trump is demanding a Friday vote in the House on the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, and if the House rejects the GOP plan, Trump is prepared to move on and leave Obamacare in place. Politico reports that Mulvaney had the…

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    Monique Judge

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  • All Health Care Is Obamacare

    Despite our reasoning skills, development of complex languages and cross-cultural ability to learn the Electric Slide, humans are basically animals, and all animals share fundamental traits. Take dogs, for instance: I have an enormous, bumbling, spoiled brat of a Great Dane named Omar. When Omar was a small puppy, he would bounce to his food…

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    Michael Harriot

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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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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • House Republicans Release Long-Awaited Obamacare Replacement Plan

    The wait is finally over. House Republicans have finally released their master plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known (to the shock of millions) as Obamacare, in the form of two bills that would replace federal insurance subsidies with individual tax credits and grants to help states create their own policies.…

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    Monique Judge

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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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    Michael Harriot

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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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    Monique Judge

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