Healthcare

Republican Officials File False Claims Before Supreme Court In Attempt To Gut Obamacare

Republican Officials File False Claims Before Supreme Court In Attempt To Gut Obamacare

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 […]

A Serious Conversation About Public Health, The Right To Choose And Science

A Serious Conversation About Public Health, The Right To Choose And Science

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 […]

How A Little-Known Obamacare Provision Saved Americans $72 Million

How A Little-Known Obamacare Provision Saved Americans $72 Million

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 […]

Research Proves Obamacare Is A Wild Success

Research Proves Obamacare Is A Wild Success

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 […]

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