Upshot: How Undoing Obamacare Could Thwart Trump Efforts

2019年7月11日星期四

Upshot: How Undoing Obamacare Could Thwart Trump Efforts

Also: Job market has room to improve, Fed chief says

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President Trump during a signing ceremony Wednesday for an executive order on kidney disease.

Erasing Obamacare Could Undermine Trump's Own Health Initiatives

By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

Policy experimentation embraced by the administration may disappear along with the rest of the Affordable Care Act.

Jerome Powell testifying Wednesday at a hearing on Capitol Hill.

The Fed's New Message: The Economy Can Get a Lot Better for Workers

By NEIL IRWIN

A rejection of what had been a consensus view of the relationship between the jobless rate and inflation.

Calorie information in a New York City Starbucks, 2010. Overturning Obamacare would mean restaurants nationwide would no longer be required to post such data.

So You Want to Overturn Obamacare. Here Are Some Things That Would Be Headaches.

By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

People would lose insurance, but workplace lactation rooms, menu calorie information and entire government programs would also be affected.

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