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The Centers for Disease Control confirm that the Affordable Care Act is still a big fucking deal. Since 2010, 20.1 million people have gained health insurance.
That number will increase soon into the new year when Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah expand...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Nov 16, 2018 at 11:40 AM PST
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Today Charles Gaba took to twitter to most expertly troll the 57 (and counting) house GOP members who either lost their respective election bids or are retiring.
Unfortunately he didn’t thread the list, but you can see them all by going to...
by cpr4life
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 03:51 PM PST
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The first two weeks of open enrollment in Affordable Care Act in plans in 2018 lagged behind the first two weeks of last year, 1.2 million sign-ups now as opposed to 1.5 million sign-ups last year. It did include an extra day last year, but one day...
by Joan McCarter
5 comments
on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 12:52 PM PST
with 35 Recommends
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Over at Bloomberg News, Aziza Kasumov has written up what is, for the most part, an excellent profile of a middle-class family who crystalize the single biggest real flaw in the design of the Affordable Care Act (as opposed to the bullshit ones made up...
by Brainwrap
14 comments
on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 05:14 PM PST
with 22 Recommends
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From now until December 15, in most states, you can enroll in a health insurance policy in the Affordable Care Act if you don’t already have coverage from your employer or public coverage under Medicare. While there are lots of brokers and websites out...
by Joan McCarter
24 comments
on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 12:47 PM PST
with 56 Recommends
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It’s official! Democrat Andy Kim has turned New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District blue, unseating the architect of the Obamacare repeal, Tom MacArthur. Kim had declared victory last Wednesday, after thousands of mailed-in ballots swung the election...
by Walter Einenkel
104 comments
on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 12:20 PM PST
with 248 Recommends
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The health care industry, and particularly CEOs, are breathing a sigh of relief over the Democrats’ big win in the midterms. They foresee that "the law providing individual coverage to more than ...
by Joan McCarter
18 comments
on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 09:30 AM PST
with 86 Recommends
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It’s open enrollment time for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, now until December 15 in most states. This isn’t just an opportunity for the uninsured to find coverage, but for people with individual plans—whether through Obamacare or not—to shop...
by Joan McCarter
11 comments
on Mon Nov 12, 2018 at 01:08 PM PST
with 47 Recommends
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Throughout the duration of the 2018 campaign, health care was the key issue for voters and the key issue for Democrats. It gave them the House of Representatives with a net gain of 33 seats and the chance of even more gains with eight races still...
by Joan McCarter
52 comments
on Mon Nov 12, 2018 at 08:11 AM PST
with 100 Recommends
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About 370,000 people signed up for plans on Healthcare.gov in the first week of open enrollment which started on November 1. That’s down substantially from the 601,462 that enrolled in the first week in 2017. So far, 89,000 new consumers signed up this...
by Joan McCarter
11 comments
on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 12:34 PM PST
with 40 Recommends
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A decision in the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act brought by 20 states and the Trump administration is going to be handed down any minute now. Since Republicans shopped for the district and the judge most likely to rule in their favor,...
by Joan McCarter
20 comments
on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 07:50 AM PST
with 57 Recommends
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Enrollments in the Affordable Care Act are lagging substantially behind last year’s sign-up period.
By the numbers: A little over 370,000 people selected plans through HealthCare.gov in the first 3 days of open enrollment, according to figures the...
by Joan McCarter
30 comments
on Thu Nov 08, 2018 at 01:09 PM PST
with 65 Recommends
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When Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur took on the responsibility of creating the amendment that allowed Trumpcare to push through, he thought that pretending he was a bipartisan type of guy would immunize him from his own betrayed constituents. He was...
by Walter Einenkel
30 comments
on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 05:59 PM PST
with 88 Recommends
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There were a great many gains for Democrats and progressives Tuesday. From the massive number of women and people of color who will make the 116th Congress look a lot more like America to the hundreds of thousands of people who will now be able to get...
by Joan McCarter
11 comments
on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 12:37 PM PST
with 50 Recommends
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Just read this in the Post, and I thought it was great. It’s by Ronald A. Klain, who is “a Post contributing columnist since 2017. He is a lawyer in Washington, served as a senior White House aide to Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and was a...
by pixxer
61 comments
on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 09:12 AM PST
with 30 Recommends
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GOP politicians don’t want to budge on improving healthcare access for their own constituents because they’ve invested in too many lies demonizing it. So sometimes voters have to do it on their own. Three states, Idaho, Utah and Nebraska each had...
by Satya1
8 comments
on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 08:25 AM PST
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Well, it is literally impossible to ignore any longer. The evidence is just too convincing and voluminous. And anyone denying it is hopelessly engulfed in a severe case of cult worship. The unarguable truth is that Donald Trump is suffering from acute...
by News Corpse
82 comments
on Tue Nov 06, 2018 at 02:48 PM PST
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So, you’ve voted, right? No? GO DO IT! I’ll wait.
Wondering where you vote on Election Day? Use our polling place locator to find out.
You got all your friends and family and grade school classmates to vote? No? Go do it. I’ll wait.
People are...
by Joan McCarter
8 comments
on Tue Nov 06, 2018 at 11:43 AM PST
with 51 Recommends
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Talk about panic in the GOP. This is what they’ve been reduced to. Trump. Trump telling voters that Democrats have to be beat because they’ll “obliterate” Obamacare:
Nuts, right? But it gets nuttier as he realizes that obliterating Obamacare is...
by Joan McCarter
58 comments
on Tue Nov 06, 2018 at 07:53 AM PST
with 76 Recommends
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The one demographic that can always be relied upon to vote in midterms and presidential years and in state and local elections, always, are seniors. They've also always voted more for Republicans than Democrats, but 2018 could change that. The issue of...
by Joan McCarter
76 comments
on Mon Nov 05, 2018 at 01:32 PM PST
with 118 Recommends
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