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Nov 27

Trump says he will renew push to replace ‘Obamacare’ if he wins a second term

By Jill Colvin, Associated Press

Trump threatened over the weekend to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act after failing to repeal it while in the White House, saying he is “seriously looking at alternatives” if he wins a second term.

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Sep 15

Texas schools and families struggle as hundreds of thousands of kids lose Medicaid coverage

By Laura Santhanam

Advocates say Medicaid’s unwinding has put affected families in a precarious situation, with research suggesting that many who have lost coverage were still eligible. But in Texas, where child disenrollment rates are among the nation's highest, state officials say they…

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Apr 10

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Uninsured patients say North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion is a life-changing development

By John Yang, Sam Weber, Kaisha Young

North Carolina is now the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The bipartisan expansion, signed into law last month, comes after a decade of Republican resistance in the state. As John Yang reports, it will be…

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Mar 31

A new ruling could chip away at the Affordable Care Act. Most in the U.S. see health care as a basic right

By Laura Santhanam

After more than a decade of political and legal turmoil swirling around the ACA, the vast majority of U.S. adults – eight out of 10 – say all Americans have a basic right to health care coverage, according to the…

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Mar 30

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Federal judge rules against key preventative care requirements of Affordable Care Act

By Amna Nawaz, Courtney Norris

A federal judge in Texas ruled that employers can not be required to cover key preventative health care benefits under the Affordable Care Act. It jeopardizes free coverage of a wide range of preventative services for some 160 million Americans.

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Mar 30

Judge’s ruling undercuts Affordable Care Act preventive screenings

By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

A federal judge in Texas who has previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation's health law.

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Mar 23

WATCH: Biden delivers remarks on 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act

By Associated Press

President Joe Biden delivered remarks Thursday at the White House on the 12th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.

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Jan 31

Watch 5:02
N.C. Republican explains why he now supports Medicaid expansion after years of opposing it

By Geoff Bennett, Matt Loffman

Since the Affordable Care Act was implemented more than a decade ago, 39 states have expanded Medicaid, the public insurance program that provides health coverage to low-income Americans. North Carolina is not one. One of the obstacles had been Republican…

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Jan 25

Record 16.3 million seek health coverage through Affordable Care Act

By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

The government says a record 16.3 million people sought health insurance through the Affordable Care Act this year. That's double the number covered when the marketplaces first launched nearly a decade ago.

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Nov 15

South Dakota passed Medicaid expansion. What’s next?

By Laura Santhanam

Many of the soon-to-be eligible work in low-income jobs or self-employed, are unable to afford health care coverage on their own and have been excluded from Medicaid under South Dakota’s strict guidelines.

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