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Category Archives: Healthcare Law
Robert J. Samuelson: Election calls for ticket-splitting – Tue, 25 Oct 2016 PST
There was a time when ticket splitting was common. Voters would support one party's candidate for president and the other's for Congress.
Barr, Kemper meet in hard-hitting debate
Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr and Democratic challenger Nancy Jo Kemper sparred Monday night over issues from health care to Donald Trump 's fitness to lead America's foreign policy in a hard-hitting televised debate, two weeks from Election Day. Kemper, a pastor, went on the offensive at the start of the hour-long debate, accusing the two-term Republican congressman of running a TV ad in Kentucky's 6th District that took her words from a television interview out of context.
Obama administration confirms double-digit premium hikes
Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama's health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That's sure to stoke another "Obamacare" controversy days before a presidential election.
As Medicaid loses stigma, election may cloud its future
In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 photo, Nicholas Novak poses for a photo in Lynwood, Ill. Novak, a part-time worker needed an operation and found out Medicaid would cover his $46,000 bill.
As Medicaid loses stigma, its fate rides on stormy election
The federal-state program for low-income people has been scarcely debated in the turbulent presidential election, but it faces real consequences depending on who wins the White House in the Nov. 8 vote. Under President Barack Obama, Medicaid has expanded to cover more than 70 million people and shed much of the social stigma from its earlier years as a welfare program.
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When former President Bill Clinton called parts of Obamacare "crazy," he put his wife Hillary Clinton on the defensive and gave much-needed ammunition to her Republican rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, who wants to scrap it. Bill Clinton said this month that while millions more Americans now have insurance coverage under President Barack Obama's signature 2010 healthcare law, small businesses and some families are still "getting killed" by surging healthcare costs.
Heed voters on Medicaid expansion
The August primary already is having a positive impact: The Legislature is expected to hold hearings and vote next session on Medicaid expansion - and it could pass. It remains to be seen whether Gov. Sam Brownback will loosen his opposition to expansion - or whether the loss of more of his allies in the Nov. 8 general election is needed to help change his priorities.
Obama administration: Budget deficit increases to $587B
The government ran a $587 billion budget deficit for the just-completed fiscal year, a 34 percent spike over last year after significant improvement from the record deficits of President Barack Obama 's first years in office. Friday's deficit news, while sobering, does not appear bad enough to jolt a gridlocked Washington into action to stem the flow of red ink.
Ryan: Liberals favour a government-heavy agenda for elites
House Speaker Paul Ryan, under siege from fellow Republicans for his unwillingness to help Donald Trump, accused Democrat Hillary Clinton and liberals on Friday of seeking to impose "a gloom and a greyness" on America and pursuing a government-heavy agenda for elites. "In the America they want, the driving force is the state," Ryan said in remarks to college Republicans in his home state.
Mailings, social media ads woo uninsured for health sign-up
The Obama administration says it'll send more than 10 million mailings to woo the uninsured for the final health care law sign-up season of President Barack Obama 's tenure. Add to that countless email messages to both prospective and returning customers - and ads on social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.
Presidential Proclamation — National School Lunch Week, 2016
Seventy years ago, President Harry Truman signed the National School Lunch Act, declaring "Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children, and proper nourishment comes first in attaining this welfare." This Act created the National School Lunch Program and provided lunch to 7 million children in its first year -- today, more than 30 million children depend on it each day.
Paul Ryan’s Steamroller
An outtake from the Paul Ryan photo shoot that was inspired by his Facebook photos showing him working out with P90X creator Tony Horton If Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans hold onto Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is bluntly promising to ram a partisan agenda through Capitol Hill next year, with Obamacare repeal and trillion-dollar tax cuts likely at the top of the list. And Democrats would be utterly defenseless to stop them.
Milbank: The Obamacare apocalypse that never happened
IT WAS a case of the dog that didn't bark. For 90 minutes last week, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in their first presidential debate on a full range of issues.
The Latest: Bill Clinton tries to stay on message
A day after framing President Barack Obama's signature health care law as crazy, former President Bill Clinton is trying to avoid muddling his message again as he touts Hillary Clinton's plans on the economy. Bill Clinton only briefly mentioned health care during the Ohio University speech campaigning for his wife.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks to a crowd at the Dow Event…
Former President Bill Clinton speaks to a crowd at the Dow Event Center in Saginaw, Mich. while campaigning for his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, on Monday,, Oct. 3, 2016.
Election will decide ideology of Supreme Court
An evenly divided Supreme Court opens a new term this week with a few dozen mostly low-profile cases. But perhaps the biggest question of the year won't even be settled by the justices.
Debate covered a lot of ground, but not a word about Obamacare
For 90 minutes this week, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in their first presidential debate on a full range of issues. But meriting not a single mention? Obamacare.
Court rejects Medicaid funds for assisted living before plan
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit that sought retroactive payment for assisted-living services for people on Medicaid. The 2013 complaint said Ohio was illegally omitting Medicaid coverage for people between the time they required assisted-living services and when a plan was authorized allowing the payments.
Republicans predicted an Obamacare apocalypse. It hasn’t happened.
For 90 minutes this week, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in their first presidential debate on a full range of issues. But meriting not a single mention? Obamacare.