Obamacare
The Lede
How an Attack on Obamacare Saved Abortion in Wyoming
In the most conservative state in the U.S., libertarianism can lead in surprising directions.
Personal History
A Freelancer’s Forty-Three Years in the American Health-Care System
Bills that aren’t bills arrive in the mail, doctors opt out of treatment, and patients need expert help to figure out which diseases they can afford to have.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Ted Cruz Calls Obamacare a Democratic Plot to Keep People Alive So They Can Vote
The senator added that, unlike Democrats, Republicans have “no intention whatsoever of keeping people alive,” citing Texas’s new “constitutional carry” gun law.
Daily Comment
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Vote May Save Obamacare This Time
In oral arguments on Tuesday, Kavanaugh appeared inclined to let the Affordable Care Act stand even if the individual mandate is struck down.
An Editor’s Note
About Our Excerpt from President Obama’s Forthcoming Memoir
This week, The New Yorker is publishing a long piece by Barack Obama about the ferocious battle over his most transformative piece of legislation.
Annals of the Presidency
A President Looks Back on His Toughest Fight
The story behind the Obama Administration’s most enduring—and most contested—legacy: reforming American health care.
News Desk
How Bernie Sanders Changed the Health-Care Debate
Widespread enthusiasm for Sanders’s Medicare for All proposal has forced moderate candidates to put forward plans that are well left of the Affordable Care Act.
Daily Comment
The Challenge to Obamacare and a Legal Question: Does What Politicians Say Matter?
Trump’s tendency both to dissemble and to incite, both to deny his motives and to bray about them, further complicates the tricky question of how courts should interpret the meaning of legislative and executive actions.
Comment
The Battle for Health Care
The latest Republican effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act appears likely to reach the Supreme Court in the heat of the 2020 Presidential race.
Daily Comment
The Scrambled Logic of Trump’s New Attempt to Kill Obamacare
A Texas judge has issued a ruling to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, but Republicans worry that if this ruling is upheld, there won’t be anything ready to replace Obamacare.
The Political Scene Podcast
The Republican Casualties of Trumpism
John Cassidy
Why the War Over Health Care Isn’t Over
The Political Scene Podcast