Watch Ted Cruz Fight About the Affordable Care Act With a Person With a Disability
Ted Cruz, a man who steps on the face of an endangered animal every time he strolls across his office, has empathy. Really!
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act for the 62nd time. This is, however, the first time such a bill will actually be sent to President Obama’s desk (where he will promptly veto it).
Supreme Court: Obamacare Subsidies Still Legal in All States
In a 6-3 decision announced Thursday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in King v. Burwell that federal healthcare subsidies under the Affordable Care Act—a.k.a. Obamacare—are legal in all states, not just those with their own state-run insurance exchanges.
Man Who Would Rather Go Blind Than Get Obamacare Now Going Blind
Who should save the sight of an uninsured South Carolina man who can’t afford eye surgery? That’s the question the Charlotte Observer asks in a story about a 49-year-old Republican who declined to sign up for Obamacare because he “prided himself on paying his own medical bills,” and is now upset that the Affordable…
Fully-Insured Woman Faces Bankruptcy After Being Taken to Wrong Hospital
A woman who nearly died of cardiac arrest last year is now facing bankruptcy because she was taken to the "wrong" hospital while unconscious. Although she has insurance, the medical center that saved her life is out-of-network.
Kathleen Sebelius Resigning as Health Secretary
Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is reportedly resigning her post this month in the aftermath of her office's less-than-stellar rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor late Tuesday temporarily blocked the Obama administration's enforcement of the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive coverage requirements for a small group of Catholic nuns. The government has until Friday to file a response in the case.
Obama Offers “Hardship Exemption” to People With Canceled Plans
Just days before the deadline to sign up for coverage, the Obama administration announced that the millions of Americans whose health care plans were canceled under the Affordable Care Act are now eligible for catastrophic coverage and will be granted an exemption from any health care-related penalties.
Psychotherapist Is Unable to Understand What Medical Insurance Is
Writing in today's New York Times opinion section, the psychotherapist and Atlantic contributor Lori Gottlieb offers a shocking first-person account of why the Affordable Care Act is in so much political trouble: It's because many Americans are too stupid and too selfish to understand how health insurance works, on…
Tomorrow President Obama will declare that the Obamacare website glitches are "unacceptable." And speaking of unacceptable, Sen. Ted Cruz told ABC's This Week on Sunday that "I would do anything, and will continue to do anything, to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare."
Kimmel Asks Americans to Choose: Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act
If asked to pick between Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act, which would Americans choose? And would it matter to them that they are synonyms for the same fucking thing?
Obama Administration's New Compromise Lets Religious Organizations Pretend Birth Control Doesn't Exist
The Obama administration has proposed another compromise on the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate. And it's pretty fair! Women get access to birth control without having to pay out the wazoo and religious groups get to plug their ears and pretend everyone is still fucking au naturel.
Mitt Romney Claims No American Dies Because They Don't Have Health Insurance, Is Dead Wrong
Speaking with The Columbus Dispatch yesterday, presidential nominee Mitt Romney reiterated his vow to repeal Obamacare and put in place a system that relies mostly on having people go to the emergency room when they need medical attention.
Olive Garden, Red Lobster Scale Back Employee Work Hours to Avoid Paying for Health Insurance
Darden Restaurants Inc., the parent company of popular casual dining establishments such as Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and LongHorn Steakhouse, is no longer offering full-time work schedules to employees at "a select number" of restaurants in four markets across the country.
Letter Reveals Paul Ryan Sought Obamacare Dollars to Fund Clinic for Patients Without Healthcare
In a 2010 letter [pdf] signed by Paul Ryan and obtained The Nation through a Freedom of Information Act request, the GOP's VP nominee — a major opponent of President Obama's healthcare reform — asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to use Affordable Care Act dollars to fund a new health center in his…
Right Wing So Mad About Supreme Court Ruling It's Just Straight-Up Appropriating Nazi Vocabulary
Frequent readers of National Review Online's The Corner might have stumbled over this odd foreign word in contributor Michael Walsh's column about Chief Justice John Roberts: Dolchstoss, which Walsh uses to refer to Roberts' ruling that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Literally translated, Dolchstoss means…
John Roberts' Medication Made Him Stupid and Other Right-Wing Explanations for the Obamacare Ruling
Almost no one was able to predict that Chief Justice John Roberts would join the Supreme Court's liberal bloc in voting to uphold the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate — which means a lot of the coverage, especially from the right wing, has focused on what caused Roberts to vote the way he did. Because, sure,…
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Obama on Health Care
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 in favor of the Obama administration on the Affordable Care Act, upholding the constitutionality of the law's individual mandate as a tax. The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who joined the court's liberal bloc. "The bottom line," SCOTUSBlog writes, is that…
Republican Judge Rules Wrong Way on Health Care Reform
A federal appeals court judge who was nominated by George W. Bush and clerked under Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made an embarrassing error today when he ruled that Barack Obama's health care reform law was constitutional.
Fun New Right-Wing Meme Barely Lasts a Day
Did you hear that Obama wants to spy on all the doctors to ensure that they're utilizing proper Kenyan medical techniques? No? You must be getting your news from the liberal media establishment, then!
