Mark your calendar for four important resistance movement events
Four items for your resistance movement calendar at the start of spring, 2018: #1 – Celebrate the anniversary of the ACA. Despite endless attacks and efforts to undermine it, tomorrow, March 23 is the...
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Comments due Monday on Trump’s scheme to bring back health plan bars to...
While last year’s legislative repeal-and-replace proposals were rejected resoundingly by the American public and by a slim majority in the Senate, the Trump administration has been moving on its own to...
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Charlotte Observer condemns legislative plan to end protection for people...
In case you missed it this morning, there was an excellent editorial in the Charlotte Observer condemning the last-minute scheme by Republican leaders at the General Assembly to undermine one of the...
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Medicaid and Medicare mark 53rd anniversary by continuing to serve millions...
Medicaid and Medicare were signed into law on July 30, 1965 – exactly 53 years ago this week. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (July 30, 1965). LBJ Library photo Since...
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Blue Cross’ 2019 premiums would be 18 percent lower if not for ACA sabotage
For the first time in 25 years, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking to lower its premiums for individual health insurance coverage. Yesterday the company announced that it filed a...
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Skimpy health insurance plans & pre-existing conditions are back under new...
Today the Trump administration issued a final rule allowing insurers to sell “short-term, limited-duration” health insurance policies that can last up to three years instead of the maximum allowable...
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North Carolina Secretary of Health and Human Services Mandy Cohen
Secretary of Health and Human Services Mandy Cohen discusses Hurricane Florence recovery, Medicaid reform and expansion, the state’s opioid crisis and the best way to avoid the flu this winter. The...
View ArticleOne Texas judge says the ACA is unconstitutional: What you need to know
Before anyone gets too panicked about the weekend ruling by a Texas federal judge named Reed O’Connor that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, they should check out an article from Vox.com by...
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Thom Tillis: Doing the bidding of insurance companies while pretending otherwise
You must admit: Sen. Thom Tillis is in a tough spot. After saying time after time that the Affordable Care Act is the root of virtually all that is wrong in the world, and voting repeatedly to repeal...
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As Trump arrives in Greenville, analysts highlight administration’s “broken...
As the controversy surrounding his recent racist statements continues to roil around him, President Trump will be speaking in Greenville this evening. In anticipation of Trump’s arrival, analysts at...
View ArticleNC bill to undermine Affordable Care Act should be rejected
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Cooper should nix “back to the bad old days” association health plans bill
As noted in this radio commentary, Gov. Roy Cooper should veto the so-called Association Health Plans bill that the General Assembly presented to him today. The bill would allow the establishment of...
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Stein joins other attorneys general in asking SCOTUS to resolve Affordable...
NC the only non-Medicaid expansion state included As the Nevada Current’s Dana Gentry reports, a group of 20 state attorneys general, including North Carolina’s Josh Stein, has filed a motion with the...
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Report: Want expanded healthcare in NC? End gerrymandering
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report from the Center for American Progress shows how partisan gerrymandering has allowed officials in a handful of states to deny their own residents expanded access to...
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The best editorial of the weekend: The “chaos” that overturning the ACA would...
In case you missed it, the lead editorial in Saturday’s Winston-Salem Journal neatly summarized what’s at at stake as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider the future of the Affordable Care Act...
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New analysis documents devastating impact Trump’s ACA sabotage has had on...
Researchers at the Center for American Progress released a new analysis this morning which shows that at this critical moment for access to health care, well over a million additional Americans would...
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Advocates: Supreme Court ruling endangers reproductive freedom
Reactions are coming in to today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that permits employers opposed to providing reproductive health care to their employees from being required to do so under the terms of the...
View ArticleRural interests on a health coverage council want Medicaid expansion,...
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Supreme Court rejects latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act
In a 7-2 ruling the U.S. Supreme Court found Thursday that states lack standing to challenge that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. Here’s Justice Stephen Breyer writing for the majority: No...
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National philanthropic groups condemn NC’s failure to expand Medicaid as...
Groups call on Congress to act where recalcitrant states are failing The following statement was issued yesterday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on behalf of an array of signatory nonprofits:...
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Legal Aid of North Carolina executive director George Hausen
For over four decades now, advocates at Legal Aid have provided free legal help to low-income North Carolinians in civil cases involving basic human needs like safety, shelter, income and many other...
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U.S. judge rules insurers don’t have to cover many free preventive health...
Photo: Getty Images [This story has been updated.] WASHINGTON — Health insurance companies may no longer need to cover a wide swath of preventive health care services that were required by the 2010...
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Biden administration to crack down on ‘junk’ health insurance plans, surprise...
The Biden administration is proposing rules to rein in short-term health insurance plans and also is extending guidance to hospitals to curb surprise medical billing. (Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The...
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Expanding affordable health care in North Carolina
Photo: www.protectourcare.orgJust over a year ago, the Inflation Reduction Act became law. And now, I’m thrilled to be traveling coast-to-coast on a national bus tour with Protect Our Care to celebrate...
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Obamacare continues its decade-long run of success
Photo: Getty ImagesThe post Obamacare continues its decade-long run of success appeared first on NC Newsline.
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