Obamacare

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

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

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

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.

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.