Category Archives: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Oldest Homo sapiens a “nothingburger”? Plus US health care policy approaches The End
Posted by ACA, affordable care act, africa, ancient DNA, Astronomy, brain, climate change, congress, dna, Donald Trump, Evolution, featured, genetics, health care, Human Evolution, human paleontology, media criticism, medical journalism, morocco, North Africa, Obamacare, On Science Blogs, paleontology, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Research, Science Journalism, Trumpcare, united states, US Senate
inNobel-worthy gravitational waves; Supreme Court legalities for climate change, abortion
Posted by abortion, ACA, affordable care act, Antonin Scalia, Astronomy, climate change, contraception, cosmology, Einstein, featur, featured, global warming, gravitational waves, health care, LIGO, Nobel Prize, Obamacare, On Science Blogs, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Physics, Politics, Research, united states, US Supreme Court, women
inObamacare lives and Kennewick Man is a Native American
WHEW! The Affordable Care Act (aka ACA, aka Obamacare) subsidies to help people buy health insurance got saved by the US Supreme Court after all, with the somewhat unexpected help (unexpected by me, anyway) of Chief Justice John Roberts. Here’s … Continue reading
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inWhither Obamacare? Philae phones home from comet! Approval for female libido drug?
Whither Obamacare? The fateful US Supreme Court ruling on the legality of many subsidies for Obamacare health insurance premiums (the case known as King v. Burwell) is nearly upon us. Perhaps it will come as soon as Monday (June … Continue reading
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inDo AA and other 12-step programs work? Does breastfeeding raise IQ?
Do 12-step programs for addiction treatment work? Are 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous effective treatments for addiction? That long-time dispute has just popped up again, prompted mostly by an Atlantic article with the click-worthy title “The Irrationality … Continue reading
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inThe good news, maybe: Landing on a comet. The bad news, maybe: Supremes vs. Obamacare
START HERE for the quite wonderful story of landing on a comet.. And when you get there, click PREV to continue (in reverse chronological order) seeing xkcd’s live comicking of the Philae lander’s arrival on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-P for … Continue reading
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Election: marijuana, climate change, abortion, Obamacare, soda tax, GMOs
Still going to pot The Republicans won big last Tuesday. But so did marijuana. Here’s a summary, from Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic: “Oregon and Alaska just became the third and fourth states to legalize the drug. Washington, D.C., … Continue reading
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inBirth control, Hobby Lobby, and the war against women
Anything left to be said about the US Supreme Court’s latest decisions about women?
The US Supreme Court finished out its term with decisions that were terrible for women. This piece concentrates on only one of them, Burwell v. Hobby …
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