By State Senator LaTonya Johnson Represents Wisconsin’s 6th Senate District and lives in Milwaukee COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in Wisconsin. Our hospitals are almost at full capacity. The economy is in shambles. And Black and brown communities are being hit the hardest. It didn’t have to be this bad. For months, President Donald Trump downplayed […]
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President Obama Commends Milwaukee for Winning Healthy Communities Challenge
Citizens Mobilized Over 38,000 People to Sign Up for Obamacare by Mrinal Gokhale The Milwaukee Courier Last Thursday, President Barack Obama congratulated Milwaukee for winning his Healthy Communities Challenge at the Bruce Guadalupe Community School. The White House Healthy Communities Challenge was designed to help communities lacking health insurance sign up for Obamacare. Milwaukee defeated […]
ObamaCare Improves Health of Black America
by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black Americans continue to face serious disparities in education, employment, and in economic development. While over 45 million Black Americans have made some type of progress during the past seven years of the Obama Administration, there is still much more to be done to end the vast racial […]
Walker Unveils Health Care Reform Plan, Faces Heat from Fellow GOP Candidate
by Ariele Vaccaro Governor Scott Walker unveiled a new healthcare plan he would use to replace the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, if he were to become president. During a Tuesday campaign stop in Minnesota, Walker highlighted the new plan’s strengths. In the plan called “The Day One Patient Freedom Plan,” Walker criticizes the […]
Website Glitches Extend Obamacare Enrollment
By Natalie Villacorta February 20, 2015 In his Nov. 12, 2014 file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, on a laptop screen, shown in Portland, Ore. Being uninsured in America will cost you more in 2015. In 2015, all taxpayers have to report to the Internal Revenue Service for the […]