Obamacare

Trumpcare 2.0: Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse, OH LOOK! IT CAN!

First things first, to ensure that it doesn’t get lost in the frenzy that is our current news cycle: let’s be clear about why the Trump administration is so eager to get rid of the ACA and institute…

The Current Threats to the ACA: The Insidious, the Callous, and the Flat-Out Cruel

Well then. It’s been quite a couple of weeks, and it’s now time to take stock of where we are in the fight to protect the Affordable Care Act. By working together to put pressure on our…

The Not-So-Happy Ending to the Search for the Secret Republican Healthcare Plan, or Republicans Should Put It Back in the Basement and Pretend It Doesn’t Exist.

Don’t Be Fooled by Republican Rhetoric about the Affordable Care Act: Gutting the Law is Still Going Strong

In the first week of February, you probably heard that Trump said that repealing the ACA might not happen until next year and that Republicans now…

Save the Affordable Care Act, or the Rally that Wasn’t

January 15th was the first national Day of Action to protect the Affordable Care Act (which, to be abundantly clear, is the same thing as Obamacare and the ACA). My family and I went to a rally at Columbia Presbyterian to protest…

Time to call Republicans out (literally) on repealing the Affordable Care Act

The game is afoot. January 10th was a national call-in day to protect the Affordable Care Act. On the 11th, Republicans planned to begin voting on the budget measure that’s the starting point for…

So Why Should We Care about the Affordable Care Act, Anyway?

It’s on. Yesterday, on day one of the 115th Congress, Republicans introduced measures that would enable them to repeal the Affordable Care Act with only a simple-majority vote (51 out of 100 senators). How can they do that…