After this week’s Republican losses in the House of Representatives, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has essentially given up the eight-year effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, according to the Washington Post.
Missouri GOP Senate candidate Josh Hawley, who’s running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, has a new ad out emphasizing his personal stake in not letting insurance companies deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, one of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Republicans are in pretty sorry shape heading into the midterm elections, with some of their biggest ghouls in danger of losing their seats due to a wave of anti-GOP and anti-Trump sentiment. So naturally, the people in charge of the party are choosing this particular moment to double down on an effort to repeal…
One thing that’s as true now as it was in 2016 is that people fucking hate Congress. And while there’s been recent backlash against House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for barring the press from a public event, at least she had the guts to face the people who are likely going to be her constituents. It turns out…
In a sign of how utterly committed they are to taking healthcare away from people, reports suggest the GOP is gearing up to take yet another crack at fully repealing the Affordable Care Act should they retain control of Congress after the midterms.
A federal judge on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s approval of Kentucky’s Medicaid restructuring plan, days before the controversial policy was set to go into effect.
The Republican Party has spent the several years trying its hardest to ruin the already terrible American healthcare system, and in the last year and a half, it has finally gotten its wish. Surprisingly, it seems like a lot of people aren’t cool with that!
The GOP tried and failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year, so now it’s trying another strategy: deciding not to fight a legal effort to rule key parts of the law unconstitutional, including the ban on insurers denying coverage or charging an obscene amount to people who have “pre-existing conditions.”
If you thought the Senate majority was going to take the summer off from hoisting their horror show vision of the world onto the rest of us, think again.
No one told Catherine Emery what labor would feel like. Just past her 24th birthday and about as optimistic as a person can be, she had done what most expectant mothers making quick calculations about out-of-pocket health care costs do: She hoped for the best. Giving birth was a natural process, she reasoned. The body…
Single payer has often been seen as a far-left radical view that does not comport with practical realities, especially in comparison to a much more moderate national healthcare program like the Affordable Care Act.
Evan Young, a retired army officer living in Arkansas, has reason to be upset with the Veterans Affairs healthcare system. Last year, when Splinter spoke to him, Young was in the middle of a lengthy battle with the VA over receiving post-operative care, laid up in bed for months on pain medication, and writing to his…
Oh, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office finds that the Affordable Care Act redistributed an enormous amount of wealth—$16 billion annually—from the 1 percent to poor Americans?
The federal government told the state of Idaho on Thursday that its plan to allow insurers to sell shoddy, cheap health plans that don’t meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act cannot move ahead because it is illegal and dumb.
Over the last few months, the Trump administration has begun to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, offering short-term private insurance as an alternative. We thought we’d check in with some people who worked in the industry before rules around pre-existing conditions and mental health parity were enacted: people…
On Tuesday, Oregon residents voted to fund the state Medicaid program by levying fees, known as assessments, on hospitals and insurance providers in the state. The ballot referendum, named Measure 101, had the support of virtually every healthcare advocacy organization in the state, including the organizations that…
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell touted this victory for the working classes on Twitter:
While the Affordable Care Act remains popular and beneficial for many Americans, the current enrollment period ended at midnight on Friday without the Trump administration offering to extend the deadline to accommodate late–comers.
President Trump’s effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act by defunding and rescinding its mandates piece-by-piece is no secret. But the White House did attempt to keep the latest open enrollment period, which started on Nov. 1, a kind of secret from uninsured citizens, by deliberately not acknowledging that it was…
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