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Affordable Care Act

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President Trump, how will you make health care affordable to gig and contract workers if you roll back the ACA?

Economics

A growing number of people now work in the gig economy. Ride-hailing apps are sometimes primary sources of income for folks or a way for people to make extra money. For many freelancers, the Affordable Care Act is the way to get health insurance. But what happens to these workers if it gets repealed?

Mental health rally

President Trump, will you make sure mental health coverage is included in the American Health Care Act?

Global Politics
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How the new health care bill could affect your Uber ride

Culture
Paul Ryan

Here’s exactly who benefits from the GOP’s new health care bill

Global Politics
Paul Ryan

More than a few conservatives are pushing back against House Republicans’ new health care bill

Global Politics
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Sister Loraine McGuire with Little Sisters of the Poor speaks to the media after Zubik v. Burwell, an appeal brought by Christian groups demanding full exemption from the requirement to provide insurance covering contraception under the ACA.

TV news stories about birth control quote politicians and priests more often than medical experts

Health

Fewer than one-third of stories on the nightly news programs for ABC, CBS and NBC between January 2010 and July 2014 featured any medical information at all.

Dr. Annelys Hernandez checks out Cynthia Louis at a Mobile Health Center at Florida International Univeristy on March 3, 2015. Louis is ineligible for health insurance because of Florida's decision to reject Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.

‘The waiting is tearing me down’ — low-income Americans struggle in anti-Obamacare states

Health

While the ranks of the uninsured in the US have dropped sharply under Obamacare, around four million low-income Americans are still left out of the program in states that did not expand Medicaid. And while those states wrestle with the federal government, ordinary citizens say they’re suffering.

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