Top of the Hour: 9/11 Bill Passes, START Treaty, Morning Headlines
A last minute compromise led to approval of a four-billion dollar aid package for 9/11 survivors and the first responders who became ill working in the ruins. Plus, morning headlines.
View ArticleContraception Coverage Draws Criticism from Catholic Bishops
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken issue with the Obama administration's healthcare bill, which requires all university and hospital insurance plans to cover contraception....
View ArticleSupreme Court Hears Challenge to Health Care Law Today
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to President Obama’s healthcare law today, kicking off a three-day proceeding. The Affordable Care Act mandates an expansion of health insurance to 30 million...
View ArticleOhio Attorney General Explains Why He Joined Suit Against Affordable Care Act
The case against the Affordable Care Act currently being heard by the Supreme Court was brought by 26 states. Ohio is one of those states, and in Ohio, disapproval of the health care law runs deep....
View ArticleDoes Justice Kennedy Hold the Fate of the Health Care Law in His Hands?
After three days of intense oral arguments before the Supreme Court, the fate of the Affordable Care Act remains uncertain. Four of the court's Democratic-appointed judges are expected to support it,...
View ArticleCNN and Fox Drop the Ball on Reporting Health Care Ruling
The top court upheld the health care law Thursday, but initial reports from Fox and CNN outside the Supreme Court said the mandate had been overturned. Second readings revealed that while the commerce...
View ArticleHouse Passes Health Bill for 9/11 Responders
The House passed a health-care bill that will benefit first responders sickened at the World Trade Center site on 9/11.The bill passed 268 to 160, with 13 Republicans on-board. The bill was defeated...
View ArticleChris Dodd on the Dems' Rough Year
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country we bring you the unmissable quotes from political conversations on WNYC. On today's Brian Lehrer Show, outgoing Connecticut...
View ArticleThe Constitutional Fight at the Center of the Health Care Challenges
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country we bring you the unmissable quotes from political conversations on WNYC. On today's Brian Lehrer Show, Dahlia Lithwick, senior...
View ArticleMy Mixed Review of the Florida Health Care Ruling
Last week, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the health care reform bill passed last year was unconstitutional.Unlike other rulings on the bill that have come from a handful of other judges, what...
View ArticleObama Faces State Governors
"Make yourself feel at home," President Obama said as he began his speech to the National Governor's Association on Monday, "but for those of you interested in the next election, I don't mean that...
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Vote looming, House health care bill hasn’t yet won pivotal GOP support
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View ArticleWeek 9: What Happens When We Put Politics Over Needs
24 million Americans face the prospect of losing their health insurance under a Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Many of those people...
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How GOP health bill could dramatically change lives of small business...
Watch VideoJUDY WOODRUFF: But first: how the Republican bill could change insurance coverage and costs, if its core ideas become law.Our team has traveled across the country to capture the stories and...
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Where does Congress go next on health care?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now the aftermath of today’s failure by Republicans to move ahead with repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.We talk with prominent figures in...
View ArticleAs Health Bill Moves to Senate, Gillibrand Asks Citizens to Voice Opposition
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is urging her colleagues to reject the health care bill Republicans in the House of Representatives passed in a party line vote last week.At a news conference today,...
View ArticleSen. Ron Wyden on the Secret Republican Health Care Bill
Secrecy, evasion, and stonewalling defined the news in Congress this week. While the media focused on Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s tight-lipped testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on...
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What we know about the Senate health care plan
Senate Republicans led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have worked behind closed doors to craft a health care bill. Some details of the plan have emerged. Photo by REUTERS/Aaron P. BernsteinThis is...
View ArticleWith Health Care Vote Delayed, Take This Moment to Catch Up
With the U.S. Senate tabling its version of the health care bill until after the July 4 recess, WNYC's Mary Harris said it's likely to be a long hot summer of health care talk. She advised we all take...
View ArticleUntangling Republicans' Plans to Repeal and Replace Obamacare
Republicans have fought to get rid of the Affordable Care Act for years. With complete control over the executive and legislative branches, they promised a speedy repeal and replacement.Now six months...
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How states are fighting over women’s access to health care
Healthcare activists with Planned Parenthood and the Center for American Progress protest in opposition to the Senate Republican healthcare bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 28, 2017....
View ArticleThe President's Transgender Military Ban; The GOP's "Skinny Repeal"; Losing...
Coming up on today's show:U.S Army Veteran who served in Afghanistan and the founding member of the NYC Veterans Alliance, Kristen Rouse, talks about the President's surprise tweet announcing...
View ArticleThe Once-In-A-While Maverick
Arizona Senator John McCain killed the so-called "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act this week in a dramatic denouement on the Senate floor. It wasn’t incidental. McCain planned it that way,...
View ArticleEssential Coverage
The battle over Republican Senators' most recent attempt at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act dominated the media this week, and seemingly at all hours of the day. We take a look at a few...
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GOP ability to dismantle health law expires at month’s end
Senate Republicans are running out of time to repeal the Affordable Care Act. File photo by Zach Gibson/ReutersWASHINGTON — Senate Republicans will soon run out of time to rely on the barest of their...
View ArticleRepublicans Gear Up for One More Repeal and Replace Vote
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. It seems like only yesterday that pundits were calling repeal and replace dead. In July, momentum for the GOP’s healthcare overhaul stalled...
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Why Drugs Can Be So Expensive
Deby Provost of Stockton, California has one question: If her drug for multiple sclerosis has been around for 20 years, why does it cost so much? It's a question that Congress is asking, too.This...
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