Why are so many pre-existing IPs turning to TV? It’s complicated

Enlarge / Welcome to the nerdiest, most-inside-baseball TV event this side of network upfronts. (credit: Nathan Mattise) AUSTIN, Texas—Familiar IP (intellectual property) runs rampant on TV these days no matter where a viewer turns. Netflix openly exploits its access to the Marvel universe and has a penchant for reinvigorating classic IP across medium (from Wet […]

How the Senate’s Health-Care Bill Would Cause Financial Ruin for People With Preexisting Conditions

If there was one goal Senate Republicans had set out to achieve in developing their health bill to show they were less “mean” than their colleagues in the House, it was to take away the House Republicans’ green light for insurers to once again discriminate against those with pre-existing health conditions. Senate Republicans were willing […]

Top Republican reportedly tears up after reading analysis of how healthcare bill will affect people with preexisting conditions

Rep. Mark Meadows, the leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, reportedly got emotional after reading about the potential effects of the House GOP’s healthcare bill on sick Americans. According to Haley Byrd at the Independent Journal Review and Robert King at the Washington Examiner, reporters showed Meadows a section of the Congressional Budget Office’s report on […]

Fact check: ‘Trumpcare’ does not specifically classify pregnancy, rape, or domestic violence as preexisting conditions

Shutterstock Pregnancy, sexual assault and domestic violence could be considered “pre-existing conditions” that make it hard to keep insurance coverage under the Republican health care bill, according to a number of news articles and social media posts. The bill doesn’t specifically refer to any of these things, and headlines suggesting that it does are misleading. […]

How preexisting conditions became front and center in the health care vote

Mark Wilson/Getty Images Pre-existing conditions became the focus of debate on the American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed 217-213 by the House of Representatives. The debate led to bitter disagreement, as Republicans sought to undo a requirement of the Affordable Care Act that insurers be forced to cover pre-existing conditions and at the […]