The GOP’s quest to repeal Obamacare is on the verge of collapse

July 11, 2017 Uncategorized

Republican senators returning to Washington Monday sounded exasperated and downright deflated about their unpopular bill to overhaul the health care system.
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The Republican healthcare plan has a formidable foe: economics | Joe McLean

July 11, 2017 House of Representatives, Republicans, US Congress, US healthcare, US news, US politics, US Senate

The Republicans can’t craft a workable plan on healthcare because they ignore at least four immutable economic principles
Having sworn for six years to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans, unable to pass a plan before their summer recess, recently got their first taste of how the folks at home feel about it. While many ducked those messy town-hall meetings, they couldn’t avoid hearing the angry voices during Fourth of July parades, picnics and fireworks. ...

New study sharply rebukes major GOP talking point on health care

July 11, 2017 health, health-car, medicaid, obamacare, trumpcare

Medicaid recipients are actually happy with their coverage.Bella Nichols, 9, of Richland, Miss., shows where she wears her insulin patch that Medicaid helps pay for, as her mother and others meet with staff members of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 29, 2017, while other recipients and their supporters stage a protest outside the offices. CREDIT: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Sol...

Pence: GOP is ‘days, or maybe just weeks away’ from repealing Obamacare

July 11, 2017 Uncategorized

Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that Republican senators are "very close" to repealing and replacing Obamacare.
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Foes of Obama-Era Rule Work to Undo Birth Control Mandate

July 10, 2017 Alliance Defending Freedom, Birth Control and Family Planning, Bowman, Matthew, Health and Human Services Department, Health Insurance and Managed Care, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), Talento, Katy, Trump, Donald J, United States Politics and Government

A lawyer and an epidemiologist who fought against the Affordable Care Act’s rule on contraception coverage from the outside are now the architects of the president’s reversal.

Trumpcare protestors aren’t swayed by promises of a new bill

July 10, 2017 congress, healthcare, republican-party, trumpcare

Health Activists outside the office of Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ). CREDIT: Amanda Gomez/ThinkProgress
As the Senate returned from July 4 recess on Monday, health activists followed their respective senators back to Washington D.C., kicking off a week that will likely be filled with last-ditch efforts from protesters to block the Senate health bill. The day ended with dozens of arrests.
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Ingredients for Health Care Reform

July 10, 2017 Uncategorized

Despite their differences, the Affordable Care Act and the current proposals to replace it take a similar approach to providing health insurance. What might some alternatives look like? And how could they provide coverage to more Americans?

The Republicans’ chances of replacing Obamacare are receding

July 6, 2017 Approved, United States

Susan Collins in the spotlight
NO REPUBLICAN senator looms larger in the schemes of left-wing protesters than Susan Collins of Maine. One of the last New England moderates, a once-common Republican species, Ms Collins is considered the likeliest holdout against the draft Republican health-care reform th...