affordable care act

Plenty of reasons to reform Medicaid
Opinion, Сolumns
May 07, 2025
Debates over entitlement programs bring out the worst in elected officials, who are typically more concerned with political survival than addressing d...
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Gov. Shapiro staked a claim to the political center
Opinion, Сolumns
MIKE WERESCHAGIN Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Feb 07, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Just months after voters delivered a devastating rebuke to his party in November, and asDemocratsaround the country are searching f...
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$20 billion in Medicaid waste
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 26, 2024
An estimated 3 million New Yorkers on Medicaid or the state-run Essential Plan don’t have incomes low enough to be using the programs, according to a ...
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The plan to cut federal red ink
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 15, 2024
Kamala Harris is hiding from tough questions, and Donald Trump appears wholly uninterested in the topic. As both major presidential candidates ignore ...
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Commissioners accept housing grant
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FRAN DE LANCEY delancey401@yahoo.com 
Sep 09, 2020
SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners on Tuesday accepted the Emergency Solutions Grant of $180,525 via the Pennsylvania Department of Community...
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Wolf and Shapiro condemn federal anti-healthcare ruling
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DANIELLA GRIESBAUM Era Reporter bradford.era.daniella@gmail.com 
Dec 17, 2018
On Friday evening a federal judge in Texas ruled that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional without a penalty for not having insurance, po...
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Boser stumps in Bradford Wednesday
Local News, News, Online Features
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Oct 04, 2018
She may be a political novice, but Susan Boser is no stranger to social problems and policy. In fact, the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s 15th...
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Area federal, state lawmakers brace for healthcare changes
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ALEX DAVIS Era Reporter a.davis@bradfordera.com 
Jan 25, 2017
Congress is well on its way to altering the face of healthcare, particularly Medicaid, across the country, the state and the four-county region –– and...
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Two area GOP lawmakers say ACA needs overhaul
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ALEX DAVIS Era Reporter a.davis@bradfordera.com 
Jan 19, 2017
The Affordable Care Act — more famously known as Obamacare —is inching ever closer to the graveyard, an action supported by two Pennsylvania federal l...
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Thompson and Strano Taylor discuss issues in Ridgway
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RICHARD LECKER III Era Correspondent richardlecker3@gmail.com 
Oct 26, 2016
RIDGWAY — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., and Kerith Strano Taylor were in Ridgway on Tuesday night to discuss some of the issues facing the 5th Cong...
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