The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has taken extraordinary measures to pump oxygen back into the G.O.P.’s badly fading effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Month: July 2017
Pressure Builds On Republicans Opposing Obamacare Repeal
The Republican National Committee and several conservative political action committees are targeting GOP lawmakers in an effort to get past the critical threshold to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Fact Check: Trump’s Health Reform Pitch Includes Several Falsehoods
A review of President Trump’s claims that the Republican version of a replacement for the Affordable Care Act included several false claims.
Matthews: Trump doesn’t care if millions…
Chris Matthews has watched President Trump act almost with glee over the prospect of having the public blame the Democrats for what he predicts will be the failure of Obamacare down the road.
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By 2026, annual Medicaid cuts under the Senate health-care replacement plan are steeper than under repeal
Under a straight repeal bill, the government would be spending $14 billion more a year on Medicaid in 2026.
CBO on GOP health bill: 32 million more without insurance over a decade
The Congressional Budget Office on July 19 estimated that a GOP health-care bill ending parts of Obamacare with no immediate replacement would reduce federal deficits by $473 billion over a decade.
Repeal-only healthcare bill would cost 32m people coverage, CBO says
Congressional Budget Office analysis comes as Donald Trump urges Republicans to pass a new Obamacare replacement bill
A bill that would repeal major pieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without replacing it would increase the number of people without insurance by 32 million people over the next decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in an analysis on Wednesday.
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Repealing Obamacare alone would leave 32 million Americans uninsured
Thirty-two million Americans would lose their health insurance by 2026 if Obamacare is repealed without a replacement.
How Senate Republican women stopped the latest attempt at ACA repeal
Three Republican women sunk a last-ditch effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Trump and GOP senators try to revive health-care push
President Trump hosted Senate Republicans at the White House, July 19, to renew efforts to revamp the Affordable Care Act following failed attempts.