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Affordable Care Act
Texas Court Decision Threatens ACA Coverage of Preventive Medical Services
Millions of insured Americans could lose no-cost coverage for preventative services such as cancer screenings.
Value-Based Payment Is the New For-Profit Health Care Industry
Financed by powerful corporations and private equity firms, value-based payment threatens to take over health care.
Judge Rules Employers Can Deny Coverage for HIV Drug for Religious Reasons
The notoriously anti-LGBTQ and anti-ACA judge said the decision protects “private, religious corporations.”
Manchin Is Pushing Even More Harmful Means Testing for Health Care
As Manchin blocks Medicare expansion, West Virginians are resorting to desperate measures like pulling their own teeth.
Johnson Suggests GOP Will Seek to Repeal Affordable Care Act If They Win in 2024
A majority of Johnson's constituents in Wisconsin oppose efforts to repeal the popular health care law.
Survey Finds Sharpest Decline in Public Opinion About Health Care in the US
COVID "really illustrated just how dysfunctional the system actually is," said one survey respondent.
An Obscure Agency Is Threatening to Hand Medicare Over to Wall Street
30 million seniors who thought they were free of insurance companies may find their health care managed by corporations.
Democrats Seek Workarounds to Republican Resistance on Medicaid Expansion
In the years leading up to the pandemic, states that expanded Medicaid cut their uninsured rates by half.
McConnell Is Stacking the Courts and Using Voter Suppression to Maintain Power
Mitch McConnell has established himself as the U.S.’s most dangerous practitioner of might-is-right politics.
Affordable Care Act Survives Right-Wing Attack in Supreme Court
The decision affirms that 21 million people who receive health care through the ACA will get to keep their insurance.