Senators Jerry Moran and Mike Lee announced their opposition Monday night, killing for now a seven-year-old promise to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
Month: July 2017
Senate will vote to repeal Obamacare without replacement, after new healthcare bill stumbles
Republican Mitch McConnell calls for vote on clean repeal, after senators Mike Lee and Jerry Moran come out against latest effort to replace Obamacare
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has announced that the Senate will vote on a clean repeal of Obamacare without any replacement, after two Republican senators broke ranks to torpedo the current Senate healthcare bill.
Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas came out on Monday night in opposition to McConnell’s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the Senate version of the controversial healthcare reform bill that passed the House in May.
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Health care rallies continue as GOP flounders
Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, talks with Rachel Maddow about the energized activism of ordinary Americans that have kept the pressure on legislators to not ruin American health care options with an poor replacement for Obamacare.
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Republican Health Care Bill Dead After 2 More Senators Oppose It
Republicans Mike Lee and Jerry Moran have put their names to the no column, bringing to four the GOP senators opposed to the measure. As it stands, there aren't enough votes to pass the bill.
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Republican health care bill appears to be…
Two more Republican senators, Mike Lee and Jerry Moran, announced they won’t support the motion to proceed on Trumpcare in its current form – making the GOP short of the votes they need to pass the bill.
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McConnell calls for Obamacare repeal vote after replacement plan fails
Two more senators oppose health bill in apparent body blow to GOP effort to replace Obamacare.
GOP senator: McConnell telling moderates Medicaid cuts won’t happen
Johnson said the remarks put the bill "in jeopardy."
New polls show Trump down while Obamacare up
A new Monmouth University poll shows that 62% of Americans think it was wrong for Donald Trump Jr to meet with Russians to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Kremlin.
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GOP’s healthcare problems multiply
Sen. John McCain's unexpected absence from the Senate is just the latest thing to go wrong for the Senate Republican bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare.