The Republican Attorney Generals of six states filed an amici curiae (friend of the court) brief with the United States Supreme Court in late December in an attempt to gut Obamacare, the nation’s controversial national healthcare program. Those states include Alabama, Georgia, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia, but as Think Progress reports, one […]
So I’ve been asked- if someone supports the right of women to make their own choices about their healthcare, shouldn’t they support a parents’ right to not vaccinate their children? I believe when we speak about issues like vaccination, birth control, and abortion, we are talking about public health issues and serious conversations about these […]
Obama has had a great week so far scoring 3 huge victories on Monday and another on Tuesday. Once again, the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare and many have dubbed it – has scored a huge victory with its annual open-enrollment session. As NBC News reports, the number of people signing up this year […]
To combat profiteering in the health care sector, the Affordable Care Act imposes strict limits on the tax deductibility of health insurer executive pay. The Institute for Policy Studies is the first to analyze the impact of these new rules. Based on data for the 10 largest health insurers, they found that this virtually unknown […]
New data from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2014, indicates that the full implementation of the controversial Affordable Care Act is doing phenomenally well despite endless criticism and dire warnings from Republicans. The data shows that more people have insurance, are going to the doctor and are paying their bills: New results from the […]