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President Donald Trump鈥檚 Justice Department seeks to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, which since 1997 has required U.S. immigration officials to hold migrant children in facilities that are safe and sanitary, among other protections. Even with the consent decree in place, court records show unsafe conditions for immigrant kids.
During the Trump administration, enrollment in Affordable Care Act health plans fell by more than 2 million people and the number of uninsured Americans rose.
The White House gathered the people who helped pass the Affordable Care Act 13 years ago 鈥 partly to congratulate themselves but also to emphasize that they still have much work to do to make health care affordable.
After 9/11, as our defenses against international and bioterrorism hardened, our defenses against infectious diseases shrank. By the time a deadly virus arrived on our shores last year, nearly two-thirds of Americans were living in counties that spend more than twice as much on policing as they spend on public health.
Experts said a penalty of $10,000 in one year would have been extremely unlikely.
We鈥檙e off this week, but the Affordable Care Act is in the news, as the GOP holds its virtual convention and the Supreme Court recently scheduled arguments in a case challenging the law. So we鈥檙e reposting our ACA 10th anniversary episode from March. For this special episode of 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 host Julie Rovner interviews Kathleen Sebelius, who was President Barack Obama鈥檚 secretary of Health and Human Services when the law was passed. Then Rovner, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Mary Agnes Carey of KHN discuss the law鈥檚 history, impact and prospects for the future.
The coronavirus was a critical theme throughout the evening.
There鈥檚 a theory now being embraced by President Donald Trump that the Supreme Court鈥檚 recent DACA decision makes it harder for a new president to undo the executive action of a predecessor. He cited it in a recent interview, saying that finding gave him the power to issue new health care and immigration plans. And some legal scholars disagree.
This is a tactic that we鈥檝e seen before.
There鈥檚 an actual paper trail.
Nothing in this viral meme is accurate. And there are other places to place blame.
On the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Kaiser Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner and Kaiser Family Foundation Executive Vice President Larry Levitt put the law in perspective.
Next week is the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Millions of Americans have benefited from the law, yet its future is in the hands of both the Supreme Court and voters in November. For this special episode of 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 host Julie Rovner interviews Kathleen Sebelius, who was Obama鈥檚 secretary of Health and Human Services when the law was passed. Then Rovner, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News discuss its history, impact and prospects for the future.
On KHN鈥檚 鈥淲hat the Health? 鈥 podcast, the former secretary of Health and Human Services says she continued to believe during the debate 10 years ago on the health law that it would eventually gain some Republican support. But that never happened.
Justices from the right and left ask whether Congress needs to keep its promises.
Special interests and congressional inaction blocked efforts to track the safety of electronic medical records, leaving patients at risk.
Did the Affordable Care Act create equal coverage of mental and physical health? Seems true on paper but not always in practice.
The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make health care better, safer and cheaper. Ten years and $36 billion later, the system is an unholy mess. Inside a digital revolution that took a bad turn.
President Donald Trump wants Congress to allot $500 million over 10 years for pediatric cancer research. While it鈥檚 welcomed by researchers and advocates, it鈥檚 not a lot of money.
As Republican and Democratic attorneys general square off on a Texas case that threatens to dismantle consumer protections in the federal health law, campaigns across the country for states鈥 highest legal officer get hotter.
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