By Devin Dubon Since 1966 there’s been a tradition that a representative of the minority party issues a response to the president’s State of the Union speech. This year, that honor was bestowed to Representative Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts. Kennedy has been a rising star in the Democratic party, coasting into his congressional seat…
By Sabine Joseph After several failed attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare, lawmakers tried yet again to implement health care reform on Thursday, July 27 with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposed Health Care Freedom Act (HCFA), to no avail. The HCFA, commonly known as the “skinny repeal”, was intended to strip some of the…
By Alexandra Reboredo “This will be great if we get it done and if we don’t get it done it’s going to be something that we’re not going to like and that’s OK and I can understand that,” says President Trump on the development of one of his main campaign promises: repealing and replacing Obamacare….
After surviving an exhilarating presidential election and the catastrophic Mayan apocalypse, the only recent controversy brought to mind is the Obama Care Act – What is it, and why is it so important? – but many Americans still know very little, if anything at all, about the goals, benefits, and effects of this health care…
Aristotle once said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” I’ve thought about that phrase a lot in my life, and many times I have tried to quantify people, politics, countries, not just by looking at their grand total, but the people and institutions that make them up.