Affordable Care Act

Dean Baker and Jeremy Holden discuss two federal courts decisions which could disqualify lower and middle income earners for subsidies and the forces working to dismantle Obamacare.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government may not require certain businesses to provide their employees with health insurance that covers contraception which offends the owner's religious beliefs.

Why don't we make our means-tested system of rationing more rational, and, like other wealthy countries, base it on medical need rather than financial means?

By keeping workers healthy, the Affordable Care Act will help the working poor achieve greater financial stability - and will probably boost the economy as well.

The Affordable Care Act demonstrates an affirmative, proactive step from government for women's access to reproductive health care, but conservatives are bent on moving backwards.

A great many reporters and editors at our most esteemed media outlets know very little about the policies available in the Exchanges.

Dean Baker: Obamacare might be the best news on the wage front that most workers have seen for some time.

We can hope that the ACA's strengths and its failures will soon pave the way for a rational universal system such as single payer health care.

Texas daily went digging for victims of the ACA and Surprise! Reporter unearthed three Tea Partiers who hate the new law.

Dean Baker: The focus on the young invincibles is largely a distraction. However it is not an altogether harmless distraction.