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Obamacare Is Working As Uninsured Rate Drops Below 12 Percent
Despite persistent Republican efforts to undermine the ACA, Obamacare is, in fact, working, as uninsured rates continue to plummet.
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Another Obamacare Win: Red State Montana House Passes Medicaid Expansion
Montana’s House voted 54-46 to approve federal subsidies for Medicaid expansion, with 13 Republicans joining 41 Democrats to pass the bill.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott Flip-Flops On Medicaid Expansion Again, Now Opposes It
Governor Scott has reversed his position and he now opposes Medicaid expansion after briefly supporting it. Ironically, he blames Obama.
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Obama’s Biggest Victory: 16.4 Million Uninsured Americans Have Gained Health Coverage Via ACA
Millions of Americans have gained health insurance coverage, since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law on March 23, 2010.
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Obamacare Is A Smashing Success As Uninsured Rates Continue To Plummet
A Gallup poll finds the percentage of Americans lacking health care coverage has dropped from 17.3 percent in 2013 to 13.8 percent in 2014.
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GOP Stooge Tries To Take Healthcare From 13 Million Because He Wishes Obama Wasn’t Born
Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will be affected.
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Obamacare Is Working: Millions More Are Insured Than A Year Ago
The Urban Institute’s latest survey shows that Obamacare is working to lower the number of Americans who are uninsured.
GOP Fail: Almost Half a Million People Sign Up for Obamacare in First Week
Almost half a million people signed up for Obamacare in one week.
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A Week Before Midterms, GOP Devastated By The Fact That The Affordable Care Act’s Working
This week The New York Times published an assortment of answers to the question, “Is the Affordable Care Act Working?” If readers are able to get past the meaningless non-reporting of the piece’s opening summary, there is plenty of good news to be found.
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Virginia GOP Bribes Democratic State Senator To Resign So They Can Stop Medicaid Expansion
The Washington Post reported on Sunday evening that State Senator Phillip Puckett, a Democrat, will resign from office Monday. Puckett is resigning so he can take on a new job as deputy director of the state’s tobacco commission, a position with significant benefits.
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Desperate Liar Mitch McConnell Gets Caught In His Own Obamacare Trap
The man who would be Majority Leader of the Senate and who promised to repeal Obamacare if he makes it claimed that the Kentucky state exchange is not connected to Obamacare.
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Doctors, An Endangered Species Thanks To The Republicans
After your next checkup, if you know your doc pretty well, take a little time and ask him/her how the insurance companies are treating him/her under the new government health care plan.
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‘New’ Republican Healthcare Plan Sticks It To Everyone Except Insurance Companies
The Republicans “new” plan to replace the ACA brings back everything that was wrong with the old system and they found away to make things even worse.
Rep. Waxman Catches Republicans in Another ACA Lie and Delivers Truth Bomb With Report
On New Year’s Eve, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, published a report showing that the Republican claim that 5 million people have had their health insurance policies canceled due to the ACA is flat out false.
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HHS Releases ACA Enrollment Numbers for November and it Sends Republicans Reeling
While estimates had already been released prior to today in regards to the number of enrollments through the health insurance marketplaces through November 30th, the Department of Health and Human Services released the official numbers on Wednesday.
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NBC/WSJ Poll Shows Majority of People Reject the Republican Party and Their Views
While the media will focus on the President’s disapproval ratings showing as an all-time high in this poll (54%), the real story here is that, for the most part, this poll shows that the American people are still rejecting the Republican Party and its ideals.
Numbers Game: What the ACA’s Initial Enrollment Really Means
Having affordable health care will mean a world of difference for the 106,815 people who now have it for the first time in their lives.
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The Affordable Care Act Ain’t Broke: So Let’s Fix Healthcare.gov (Quickly, Please)
The healthcare.gov website has been online for 2 weeks. It works, but must be improved. There has been an overload of political and media focus and furor about the problems of the Healthcare.Gov website.
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The Insurance Industry Hates the ACA? The Insurance Industry Loves the ACA.
If you were to believe the headlines, it would appear that Blue Cross and their ilk are terrified of ACA. Quite the opposite is true.
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Ted Cruz Is Just the Figurehead of The Koch/DeMint Destroy Government Conspiracy
Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and David Koch and Jim DeMint
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How The Tea Party and Republicans Continue to Blow Golden Opportunities
The Tea Party and the Republicans could have led a much-needed national debate about the role and size of the federal government during this shutdown, but they haven’t.
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It’s Amazing What the American People Will Believe About Obamacare
The fact that there are people who still believe in death panels is pathetic enough, but now they think there will be forced home visits.
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Norm Ornstein Accuses Republicans of Trying to Blackmail Obama
Norm Ornstein points out that Republican efforts to sabotage ObamaCare are unprecedented and that they are trying to blackmail the President with threats.
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Paul Ryan Gets Booed at AARP for Attacking Obama and Obamacare
Paul Ryan tried selling the AARP on his Medicare privatization plan and attacks on ObamaCare and was met with groans and boos by the crowd in attendance.
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Obama Obliterates Romney and Ryan’s Medicare Lies
President Obama responded to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s rash of Medicare lies by setting record straight on what a Romney presidency would mean for Medicare.