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Healthcare is Trump’s Achilles heel. Republicans don’t get it
Lloyd Green
Five million Americans have lost their health insurance in a pandemic – yet Republicans are still trying to end Obamacare More
ACA prevents denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions Abolition could mean Covid-19 victims could be turned down Doctors are searching for a vaccine for Covid-19, and 124,000 Americans have died from the illness. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters Millions of Americans who have survived Covid-19 or face future infections could lose their insurance or be barred from […] More
Democrats call legal push amid coronavirus crisis an ‘act of unfathomable cruelty’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The supreme court building in Washington DC. The Affordable Care Act is likely to be a key political battleground in the forthcoming presidential election. Photograph: AFP/Getty The Trump administration has asked the US supreme […] More
Top US infectious disease expert disputes Trump’s comments in congressional testimony and warns of ‘disturbing surge’ Play Video Dr Fauci testifies to Congress about US coronavirus response – watch live The US’s top infectious disease expert has testified before Congress that the country will be doing more Covid-19 testing, not less, hours after Donald Trump […] More
The Trump administration has finalized a regulation rolling back Obama-era protections for transgender Americans against sex discrimination in health care. According to the new version of the policy, the Department of Health and Human Services will be “returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as […] More
Professor argues US president is stabbing citizens in back while pretending to be saviour Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Donald Trump has frozen payments to the World Health Organization amid the coronavirus crisis. Photograph: White House/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Donald Trump is culpable in the deaths of thousands of Americans by using the […] More
Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death Robert Reich No other advanced nation denies healthcare and work protections, or loosens lockdown while fatalities mount Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Republican members of Congress on Friday. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters No other nation has endured as much death from Covid-19 nor nearly as […] More
Operation reopen America: are we about to witness a second historic failure of leadership from Trump? Trump speaks during a meeting with healthcare executives on Tuesday. Photograph: Doug Mills//Bloomberg via Getty Images Without mass testing, contact tracing, and protective equipment for health workers – all in critically short supply – the president’s plan could be […] More
