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Subscribe to xpostfactoid   As in 2018, political warfare over healthcare -- now escalating in the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death ...

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The Trump administration has opened a new front in its assault on the ACA marketplace's protections for people with pre-existing condit...

As Republicans who voted for last year's ACA repeal bills in the House and Senate profess now that they are committed to protecting ins...

I'm going to go contrarian here and suggest that House Republicans who claim that they voted to "protect people with preexisting ...

I've made this point before, but here it is again in USA Today : ...in our distorted political combat, "pre-existing conditions...

Bob Hugin, the former Celgene CEO seeking to take Democrat Bob Menendez's New Jersey Senate seat, talks a moderate game on healthcare. ...

In case you haven't heard enough about the mendacity of Missouri attorney general and Senate candidate Josh Hawley...I have a somewhat...

I have a post pending at healthinsurance.org elaborating on this Twitter thread , which now does double duty as placeholder: "I said...

In House and Senate races across the country, Republicans are being held to account for their support of last year's ACA repeal bills, ...

Last week I wrote about how Democrats running in red states use "protection for people with pre-existing conditions" as a proxy ...

Protection for people with pre-existing conditions is a red-hot button this election season. The public overwhelmingly supports maintaining...

A reader writes:  It is two years out [from Trump's election] and every major press outlet uses "Obamacare." That just pol...

The ACA-compliant individual market for health insurance is at a mid-point between Trump sabotage that's been executed and Trump sabota...

In a snappy summary by Axios's David Nather of  the latest AHCA stall-out, this caught my eye: The holdouts are mainly worried about...

Seeking to win buy-in from the Freedom Caucus for Paul Ryan's ACA repeal bill, the American Health Care Act, Republicans are considerin...

I have a post up on healthinsurance.org delving into the experience of four unsubsidized enrollees in the ACA marketplace who have pre-exi...

For the three or four people who may be wondering why I haven't blogged for a near a week: I've been taking testimony, so to speak,...

This post is a by-product of my prior post de-gaslighting Betsy McCaughey's ridiculous claim that only 500,000 people would be affecte...