Tag: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)

How to Use the Debt Ceiling to Inflict Cruelty on the Poor

Republicans have singled out low-income Americans, yet again, as a prime target in this year’s scheme over the debt limit.

Will North Carolina Be the ‘Beginning of the End’ of the Medicaid Expansion Fight?

Intense patient advocacy, shifting politics, a determined Democratic governor and a handful of maverick Republicans led the state to join 39 others that have expanded Medicaid.

How Federal Judge’s Ruling on Obamacare Could Change Health Insurance

A ruling by a federal judge this week could set up yet another Supreme Court challenge to the Obamacare health law.

In Mississippi, a Choice to Forgo Medicaid Funds Is Killing Hospitals

Mississippi is one of 10 states, all with Republican-led legislatures, that continue to reject federal funding to expand health insurance for the poor, intensifying financial pressure on hospitals.