Affordable Care Act Archives

Politics

Who Would Kick Americans Off Their Health Insurance in the Midst of a Global Pandemic?

Donald Trump, frantic to deliver for his base as his numbers slip, attacks the Affordable Care Act again

June 26, 2020 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Just before midnight on Thursday, July 25, 2020, the Department of Justice filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act-- also known as Obamacare—the health care law that has enabled millions of Americans to get health insurance. In addition to making healthcare affordable, the law prohibits ...

Who Would Kick Americans Off Their Health Insurance in the Midst of a Global Pandemic?

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Bad Medicine

Arbitrary Caps and Cost Shifts Won’t Heal Medicaid

February 15, 2020 • by James Parrott

Instead, gimmicks such as moving some spending forward by a few days into the next fiscal year, as was done the past two years with Medicaid, served to mainly obscure the steady rise in Medicaid spending and pushed a reckoning down the road. That reckoning is no longer avoidable. Six million ...

Feature

When Tribalism Trumps Originalism

The Insane Jurisprudence of the Win-at-All-Costs Republican Party

January 2, 2019 • by Sanford Schram

A Republican-appointed federal district court judge from Texas, named Reed O’Connor, issued a less than timely ruling just before Christmas stating in absolute terms that there is no question that Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act -- ACA) is nothing less than unconstitutional. In other words, the judge was firm in his decision, ...

Feature

Democrats, Republicans and the Explosive Politics of Health Insurance by Theda Skocpol

Part II Q&A Session

March 16, 2017 • by Zeyno Ustun

For the Part I please visit: https://publicseminar.org/2017/02/democrats-republicans-and-the-explosive-politics-of-health-insurance/#.WLWpRhIrK2w The current debate on the repeal of the Affordable Care Act has once again highlighted healthcare as a divisive issue at the national level. In this climate, healthcare is framed in a variety of ways that escape easy categorization. This national debate cannot be addressed ...

Education

The Coming Crisis in Healthcare and its Possible Solutions

An Open Letter to Colleagues at the New School and Beyond

January 1, 2017 • by Andrew Arato and Clara Mattei

The subjects we propose to consider are in the area of health policy, and the instruments are in the domain of federalism, to avoid misunderstanding, “progressive federalism,” meaning normatively attractive forms of experimentation on the level of the states. While we strongly believe that similar initiatives are needed in the ...