health insurance
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Texas Brings Obamacare Challenge Which Could Stop Preventative Services Requirement
If the Texas lawsuit prevails, 168 million people could lose access to cancer and STD screenings.
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Rate of Black Children Who Have Received Flu Shots Is Down 10 Percent From Last Year
While the number of people who have received flu shots this year has seen an overall increase, new data has shown that when it comes to Black children that number has actually gone down. According to NBC News, a report released on Wednesday has officials at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention somewhat alarmed.…
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Obamacare at 10: Study Shows Gaps in Coverage Between Racial Lines Have Narrowed but Persist
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since the Affordable Care Act was officially signed. In the time we’ve seen the Avengers catch Thanos’ hands, Thanos catch the Avengers’ hands and Lex Luthor actually became president of the United States. While the last decade has increased access to healthcare coverage, there is still…
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GOP-Led States Want Supreme Court to Hold Off Obamacare Ruling Until After the Election
I’ve got this feeling that even in 2049, after the country has been turned into a wasteland as a result of late capitalism and unchecked climate change, Republicans will still be bitching about one thing: Obamacare. CNN reports that a group of Republican-led states want the Supreme Court to hold off on issuing a ruling…
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White House Budget Director: Don’t Like Trumpcare in Your State? Change Your State
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has been working tirelessly to push this bullshit Republican health care bill through the House. When grilled by CBS This Morning about the 10 essential health benefits (EHBs), including maternity care and mental-health and substance-abuse treatment, that were covered under Obamacare but would be cut from the…
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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…