Obamacare

Dr. Olga Maeve is finishing up her medical residency at Clinica Sierra Vista in Bakersfield, California.

Teaching health clinics work in underserved communities across the US, but funding is set to run out

Health

A federally funded medical training program offers new doctors perks to practice in poor and rural areas. But Congress may pull the plug on the funding.

Senator John McCain speaks with reporters after voting against the "skinny repeal" health care bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 28, 2017.

The Senate’s ‘skinny repeal’ health bill has collapsed in a bitter blow to Trump

Global Politics
John McCain on Senate floor

After vote, Senate to proceed with health care debate

Health
Border wall construction

How Trump’s border wall demands could lead to a government shutdown

Economics
A woman holds a glow in the dark mustache

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

Economics
Former hospital

How the new health care bill could affect your Uber ride

Culture

The gig economy has exploded over the past decade. Could Paul Ryan’s new health care proposal halt that progress?

Three men standing at a podium

President Trump, how will you cover needy families under your plan to replace Obamacare?

Global Politics

The new Republican new health care plan to replace Obamacare has drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle — for different reasons.

Let’s rewind for a moment. What is Obamacare?

Economics

The Affordable Care Act is vast and often misunderstood. Take a minute to learn what it is and isn’t.

A supporter of the Affordable Care Act celebrates last week after the Supreme Court upheld the law in a 6-3 vote. The Court upheld the nationwide availability of tax subsidies that are crucial to the law's implementation.

A son to his mom: ‘You’re OK. The court said it was OK.’

Health

For the writer’s mother, a housekeeper who worked on a green card she got in 1986, a woman who had never been able to take a vacation or make an emergency room visit, the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act came like a dispatch from God.

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.