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).
Senate Passes Bill Defunding Planned Parenthood and Gutting Obamacare
The Senate has passed legislation that would basically gut the Affordable Care Act, reports the Associated Press. The bill has to pass the House of Representatives, but, like, come on—the House won’t even read the damn thing before sending it to President Obama.
Quiz: Antonin Scalia or Minions Meme?
Antonin Scalia is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Minions are cartoon characters from a series of popular family films. Dissents authored by Antonin Scalia are laced with quips, one-liners, and barbs designed to be stripped from their greater context and shared, by his ideological fellows and foes alike. …
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…
King V. Burwell: The Supreme Court Case That Could Destroy Obamacare
Right now, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act cooked up by radical libertarians. If the challenge wins, the results would be catastrophic: a majority of the state's health care markets would be turned into chaos, with plenty of needless suffering and death…
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.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear King v. Burwell, a case challenging tax subsidies provided to states running their own health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act. If successful, the New York Times reports, the suit could ultimately destabilize and "doom" Obama's flagship legislation.
Another Appeals Court Rules: Nuh-uh, Red States Can Too Get Obamacare
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Richmond, Virginia, ruled today that the IRS has the power to grant subsidies to people who are enrolled in Obamacare through the federal health insurance exchange. This is the opposite of what the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled just hours before. Neither of these…
Appeals Court Rules That Red States Will Get Even Less Obamacare
A federal appeals court ruled today that due to the wording of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare subsidies are unauthorized in states that haven't set up their own insurance exchanges. In those states, which are mostly Republican-controlled, the IRS had been granting subsidies to customers who purchased insurance…
Articulating public policy on the campaign trail is hard, guys. Is Obamacare more like the Holocaust, or like the Nazis and the KKK put together? And if unions are like slavery, that has "no racial connotations," right? Don't worry, conservatives are gonna figure this all out soon.
Lawmaker Is Pretty Sure You Didn't Get His Obamacare-Holocaust Analogy
Seriously, what don't you people get about comparing a government-regulated private-insurance-purchase program with subsidies for workers and the systematic imprisonment and extermination of Jewish humans with trains and ovens and gas chambers?
Oregon Ad Agency to John Oliver: "Yes, We Are Stupid Fucking Idiots"
An Oregon ad agency is pretty steamed that comedian John Oliver, whose job description includes skewering ridiculous things, skewered one of their ridiculous things.
Rick Scott Is the Dumbest Politician in the History of All Politicians
Say you're an embattled conservative governor in Florida. Say you want to go out and glad-hand with voters who hate Obamacare as much as you do. What's the stupidest place to do that? How about a senior center in South Florida, where Barack Obama won in 2012 by half a million votes?
Either 192% of Americans Weighed in on Obamacare or WaPo's Chart Sucks
Maybe both. On the plus side, America hates everything and everybody, according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll tabs.
You will not get a microchip implanted in your skin if you sign up for Obamacare. You will not get a microchip implanted in your skin if you sign up for Obamacare. You will not get a microchip implanted in your skin if you sign up for Obamacare.
The Congressional Budget Office now says Obamacare will cost $104 billion less and cover millions more people than it previously estimated. Also, more employers are offering workers health coverage. Open-market-sustainable socialism is on the march, comrades!
President Obama walks with outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and his nominee to replace her, Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, as they leave the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 11, 2014, where the president made the announcement on Friday. Image via Charles…
A Florida woman with a heart condition reportedly died last month because she couldn't afford her medication, since her $9,000 income didn't qualify her for Medicaid. Gov. Rick Scott has refused federal Obamacare funding that would expand Medicaid coverage in the state.
Obama's "Between Two Ferns" Did Cause an Obamacare "Bump"
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius claims the "Between Two Ferns" episode Barack Obama did with Zach Galifianakis is the reason for a "bump" in Obamacare enrollment.
