Fortunately, the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) failed last week. Opponents of this reprehensible Act should hold their celebration, as the primary reason it failed is not good news for its opponents. The key features of the Republican plan (the AHCA) to replace the ACA was to cut Medicaid and provide that … [Read more…]
The U.S. Senate will hold hearings this week on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since the nomination of Robert Bork in the 1980’s and the ensuing turbulent hearing for him, Republicans have tended to nominate a very conservative judge who had not produced a paper trail exposing his … [Read more…]
Recent television clips have shown a woman exclaiming that without the Affordable Care Act (ACA) some members of her family would be dead. Such tragedies are certainly possible because ACA has saved lives. Before ACA, according to various studies, between 20,000 and 45,000 Americans died each year due to a lack of health insurance. During … [Read more…]