As I write, Senate Republicans are meeting behind closed doors to draft a health care bill that will likely include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, huge tax breaks for the richest Americans and the reduction or elimination of subsidies, which have enabled millions of low-income people to sign up for health insurance. Shamefully, […]
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Trump and Ryan failed to learn from history
WASHINGTON — If President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wisconsin, had paid attention to Mitt Romney, they could have avoided the fiasco of their now dead and unmourned health-care bill. They would not now face a situation in which both of them are being blamed because they both deserve to be. And the […]
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Congress has failed the public
As a longtime proponent of complete overhaul of the national health care system, I feel that Congress (both Democrats and Republicans) has failed us. Sen. Susan Collins wants to extend the deadline to remove Obamacare and allow GOP leaders more time to develop alternatives. Sen. Angus King opposes the repeal, preferring to make it better […]
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S. Pelletier: Better health care insurance
At the end of 2014, my husband faced retirement after a 45-year professional career. I would lose his employer-provided health insurance coverage at that time, so in December, I went to the Healthcare.gov site and enrolled in a plan. My husband, with a Medicare plan, and I will now be paying less for health insurance […]
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EL students: Problems with health insurance
The Affordable Care Act has one big problem: The government has invested millions of dollars in a website supposed to get people set up with health care insurance, only for the website to be a failure. According to Fox News, Obama promised that the website would be foolproof. It’s his second term in presidency, and […]