Tag: Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act You Likely Know as Obamacare

Nov 7, 2016

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by

Brendan Barry

in Infographic

It just won’t die. Grandma, that is, in front of the death panels of Obamacare. Remember those? Well, even if you don’t, the Affordable Care Act (the actual name for Obamacare) is still around despite repeated attempts to repeal it. So in this piece from Bloomberg, Obamacare is examined from the perspective of leaving 27…
Where Medicaid is Not Expanding is Where it is Needed Most

Oct 10, 2013

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by

Brendan Barry

in Infographic

Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that most of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was constitutional. The one exception, however, was the plan to force states to expand their Medicaid coverage. Medicaid is the government plan tasked with helping to provide health insurance to the poor. But between the poverty level and…