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Where Indiana hospitals stand on Affordable Care Act INDIANAPOLIS — If the Affordable Care Act is overturned, the Indiana Hospital Association is pushing for the United States Supreme Court to create a pathway to replace it. IHA President Brian Tabor said protections for the Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, preventative care and coverage for pre-existing conditions are first priority. “I think what we need to have is a healthy debate around the best way to cover more people,” said Tabor. “And we need to make sure that is not a Republican or Democrat issue.” Tabor said he is open to look at plans to replace the Affordable Care Act. “As far as a full, comprehensive plan, I don’t think that exists today,” said Tabor. Because of that, IHA doesn’t support dismantling the ACA, but it would like to build upon it. “There have been some proposals out there that I think are of merit to look at how we might, for example, improve that healthcare exchanges in Indiana. We do need to have that market ki...

Fact check: Are Abbott’s ads defending Texas GOP under fire from Democrats over health care true? Last year, Texas passed a bill to protect coverage of pre-existing conditions, the ads brag. But the bill just set up a process for devising a fix for high premiums sick Texans paid – before 2013. Whether Republicans will protect sick people's health coverage -- if Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional -- is a top topic in ads and attacks as Democrats seek to capture the Texas House. In pre-pandemic file photo, 2,000 Dallas residents crowded into a health fair at the Fireside Recreation Center last November. (Joseph Stoltz / Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Te) AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott and fellow Republicans in the Texas House, under attack from Democrats saying they haven’t done enough on health care, have responded by talking a lot lately about a bill they’ve passed in each of the past two legislative sessions. But did North Richland Hills GOP Sen. Kelly Hancock’s legislation really shie...

Fact Check: The Three Red Lines On Biden-Harris Campaign Logo Are NOT A Reference To Chinese Socialism Coincidence Do the three red lines in the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris logo refer to a Chinese campaign involving building socialism? No, that's not true: It's just a coincidence, and one of the designers of the logo said the stripes have a far different meaning. Jonathan Hoefler, who drew the logo, said the lines are a reference to the stripes on the American flag. The claim,  which seems to be referring to China's "Three Red Banners" campaign,  appeared in  a post  (archived  here ) on Facebook on October 20, 2020, and showed an image of the Biden-Harris campaign logo. The post said: A friend said look up what 3 red banners stand for, so I did. Simple Google search ( 3 red banners). Enjoy This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing: (Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Wed Oct 21 23:03:56 2020 UTC) This is another version of the post ...

Fact Check: Biden on the Stump We fact-check nine claims made by the Democratic presidential nominee in recent campaign speeches Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Former Vice President and presidential nominee Joe Biden gives remarks at UA Plumbers Local 27 Erie Training Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 10, 2020. After months of doing mostly virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden returned to in-person events with small, socially distanced crowds in September. He’s kept up his travel in October. We reviewed Biden’s speeches on the stump between Oct. 12 and 16. He held six events over three days in swing states:  two   in  Ohio,  two   in  Florida and  two   more  in Michigan. All combined, he spoke for almost two hours and 46 minutes, or less than 30 minutes per speech. His shortest speech (in Detroit) was about 19 minutes, and his longest (in Cincinnati) was more than 3...

  Mute buttons and masks: Inside the final 2020 debate NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — While millions of people are watching on television, only around 200 are inside the massive college arena in Nashville where President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, are facing off in their second and final debate of the 2020 election. One of those 200 is controlling a mute button. A representative of the Commission on Presidential Debates — not the moderator — is supposed to ensure each candidate has a two full minutes of uninterrupted time to deliver opening answers on six major topics, according to debate commission chair Frank Fahrenkopf. A member of each of the the Trump and Biden campaigns was expected to monitor the person who controls the mute button backstage, Fahrenkopf told The Associated Press, noting that the button would not be used beyond the first four minutes of each topic. The mute button is among a handful of changes implemented by the nonpartisan debate commiss...