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Home » Affordable Care Act

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“Our government response to the pandemic compared to other first-world countries has been a joke," says Chason Rice, musician and talent buyer for Bourbon on Division.
Posted inMusic

Music workers’ jobs disappeared, but their bills didn’t

by Micco Caporale February 3, 2021August 18, 2021

With federal aid to venues only now arriving, how are tour managers, stagehands, bookers, and their colleagues in the concert business making ends meet?

Posted inBlogs

Emanuel: Rauner is ‘governing through anger’ by vetoing CPS funding, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd August 3, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, a Northwestern professor and an Oxford University employee are wanted for murder in connection with a stabbing death in River North.

Posted inBlogs

Ending Obamacare will barely make a dent in the tyranny Americans live under

by Michael Miner May 10, 2017August 18, 2021

The ACA today, the highways tomorrow

Posted inBlogs

Four former cops turned aldermen push for police access to assault rifles, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd May 5, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Heineken acquires the rest of Lagunitas Brewing Co.

Posted inBlogs

Punk Talks works to change the conversation about musicians and mental health

by Sean Neumann March 14, 2017August 18, 2021

Social worker Sheridan Allen and her organization Punk Talks hold a fund-raising concert in Chicago this month to help connect DIY musicians with mental-health care.

Posted inMusic

Chicago musicians speak up about the Affordable Care Act

by Lee V. Gaines February 8, 2017August 18, 2021

Musicians are especially vulnerable to a repeal of Obamacare, and these Chicagoans went on the record to say how.

Posted inBlogs

Amy Whitaker wants her patients to know that Planned Parenthood is here to stay

by Jack Ladd February 6, 2017August 18, 2021

The medical director of Planned Parenthood of Illinois says the healthcare provider will stick with its mission, regardless of what the new president and Congressional Republicans do.

Posted inBlogs

If Trump cuts HIV funding it could devastate public health, LGBTQ groups warn

by Nico Lang January 24, 2017August 18, 2021

A failure to reauthorize the Ryan White Care Act, coupled with the possible repeal of Obamacare, could be devastating for people living with AIDS.

Posted inBlogs

Obama’s making a ‘last-minute push’ to reform Chicago police before Trump’s inauguration, and other news

by Kate Shepherd January 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Showtime has picked up a new scripted show about the lives of young black men on the south side.

Posted inBlogs

Rahm promises that Chicago will remain a ‘sanctuary city’ for undocumented immigrants, and other news

by Kate Shepherd November 14, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, there’s been a huge increase in demand at Planned Parenthood.

Posted inBlogs

Rahm gets ‘thrown under the bus’ in Obama DNC video, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd July 29, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, CPD cuts back on stop and frisk.

Posted inBlogs

As the Obamacare deadline looms, ‘navigators’ guide Illinois residents through the process

by Anne Ford February 8, 2015August 18, 2021

As the February 15 Obamacare enrollment deadline approaches, Get Covered Illinois “navigators” guide people through the process.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Affordable Medical Care

by Steve Bogira June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

A clinic filling the post-Obamacare pockets of need

Posted inBlogs

It’s getting harder to snicker at Obamacare

by Michael Miner April 24, 2014August 18, 2021

A rare editorial cartoon defending Obamacare shows up in the Chicago Tribune.

President Obama speaks on the Affordable Care Act on November 14.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The undoing of a president’s mystique

by Michael Miner November 19, 2013August 19, 2021

What would have happened to JFK if he’d been scrutinized in the same way as Obama?

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