By Glynn Wilson – President Donald J. Trump didn’t waste any time in showing his true priorities just a day after he and the country learned of his apparent exoneration in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of his involvement in conspiring with Russia to win the 2016 election. Trump and his Department of Justice reversed…
Staff Report – Another rural hospital in Alabama will close its doors on March 31 thanks to a lack of state support of federal funding for health care. Georgiana Medical Center in rural Butler County will become the 14th hospital to shut down in the state on March 31, according to an announcement from the…
By Glynn Wilson – President Trump’s appointment of political loyalist Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general to replace Jeff Sessions of Alabama was illegal and is unconstitutional, and a federal judge in Maryland has been asked to rule on that question in a lawsuit defending a the pre-existing condition provision in the Affordable Care Act,…
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The word is coming out from Capitol Hill. While President Donald Trump and his coterie of converted Republicans push their agenda in this midterm election year, Democrats are pushing access to health care and Medicaid expansion in Washington and the states this summer as a centerpiece of their…
Equal Pay Hero Lilly Ledbetter Endorses Doug Jones for U.S. Senate – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the debate in the United States Senate goes forward on the Republican effort to repeal and perhaps replace the Affordable Care Act, people all over Capitol Hill are talking about the balance of power in…
By Glynn Wilson – Due to a major national backlash against President Donald J. Trump and the Republicans in Congress for messing with people’s health care, the Democrats are now in a position to make major gains in the U.S. House next year, according to a new poll just out from Public Policy Polling. Democrats…
By Glynn Wilson – While the House Republicans were celebrating in the White House Rose Garden after the vote to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare on Thursday, it would have been interesting to be a fly on a bush. Did any of them even whisper a hint about the massive voter backlash that was already exploding…
Will Republicans ‘Rue the Day?’ – By Glynn Wilson – Changing their tune again and playing politics with people’s lives again, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives gambled on the ignorance and apathy of a majority of the American people on Thursday when they managed to wrangle 217 votes to barely pass President Donald…
By Justin McCarthy – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act’s second open enrollment period begins, 37 percent of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January. On the other hand, 56 percent of Americans sampled say they disapprove of the law. Americans were slightly more…
The uninsured rate among adults aged 18 and older in the states across the country that have chosen to expand Medicaid and set up their own exchanges in the health insurance marketplace has declined significantly this year, meaning more U.S. citizens are being covered by private health care insurance than ever before, improving the economy…
