GOP Senators consider "skinny" repeal plan in hopes of passing reform.
Month: July 2017
Senate Rejects Slimmed-Down Obamacare Repeal as McCain Votes No
The party’s senators trimmed their vision of a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but three Republicans turned on the bill in the dead of night.
Hirono: I’m now an American with pre…
Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, who was recently diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer, shares her perspective on the fight over health care reform.
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Republicans back ‘skinny repeal’ after guarantee it will not become law
Sceptical senators Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson agree to vote for repeal on condition that it will trigger a congressional conference committee
Senate Republican leaders have unveiled their so-called “skinny repeal” bill – denounced by conservatives as a “fraud” and a “disaster” – in an eleventh-hour push to pass a pared-down repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
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Healthcare groups blast skinny repeal, warn premiums will spike
Healthcare groups are coming out against the Senate GOP's plan to pass a scaled-down ObamaCare repeal bill, saying it would spike insurance premiums.The American Medical Association, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Asso...
GOP Senators threaten to blow up Trumpcare unless they are given an unconstitutional guarantee
Everything about this process is shocking.CREDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), John McCain (R-AZ), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) held an odd press conference Thursday evening where they announced that they will vote for the latest gambit to advance Trumpcare, but only if they can be sure that the bill they vote for does not become law.
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Repeal-And-Replace Effort In Senate Still Dominated By Confusion
Four Republican senators say they will vote yes on a so-called "skinny repeal" bill only with the assurance that the bill will go to a House-Senate conference. The bill is not yet finalized.
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Graham: ‘Skinny’ GOP health-care bill is a ‘disaster,’ ‘fraud’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) on July 27 said the “skinny” GOP health-care bill aiming to revise the Affordable Care Act is “a disaster” and “a fraud.”
McCain: ‘Obamacare was rammed through Congress’
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on July 27 that he believed that Obamacare was "rammed through Congress" and said that Congress "shouldn't make that same mistake again."