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On a recent Friday night, NBC News rode along as Delray Beach Fire Rescue revived a series of opioid overdose victims.
On a recent Friday night, NBC News rode along as Delray Beach Fire Rescue revived a series of opioid overdose victims.
Trying to Put It in Words
The Republican Senate members have laid another egg in their attempt to "repeal and end Obamacare." As with the House Republican bill, polling data shows the majority of Americans reject the Senate version. The elephant in the room is what makes the whole exercise stink. That elephant is the unwavering faith in the private marketplace to decide who gets what in our society. Americans sense something is fundamentally wrong but search for words to express this problem.
The Tea Party Republicans objected to the Affordable Care Act as an unwarranted expansion of government. Honestly, they were not concerned with addressing the problem of the large and growing stress on American households to access health care without going bankrupt. In their tiny-minded world, lack of anything, from housing to education to health care, is a matter of personal priorities and market choices. Therefore, if people do not have health insurance, it is because they do not want to buy it.
Trying to negotiate with that extreme view, then-President Barack Obama struck a compromise position on health care, invoking a public interest in...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday has agreed to hear a case on President Trump's controversial travel ban policy this fall.
Studies suggest thousands of students at community colleges nationwide could be considered homeless or precariously housed.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday has agreed to hear a case on President Trump's controversial travel ban policy this fall.
The U.S. Supreme Court reduced the wall of separation between church and state Monday in one of the most important rulings on religious rights in decades.
The U.S. Supreme Court reduced the wall of separation between church and state Monday in one of the most important rulings on religious rights in decades.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from a Colorado bakery that refused to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from a Colorado bakery that refused to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples.
