The extension leaves time for President Trump to decide whether to continue crucial payments to insurers, and for insurers to figure out how they'd operate without them if they were to disappear.
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Month: August 2017
DNC targets Heller with billboard ads
Even if Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) unplugs over Congressional recess, he won't be able to escape Democratic attack ads needling him over his vote to repeal ObamaCare.The Democratic National Committee on Monday is un...
House conservatives hope to revive Obamacare repeal vote
Speaker Paul D. Ryan has warned that there aren’t enough votes.
Democrats see ObamaCare leverage in spending fights
House Democrats want to use the looming battle over government spending and raising the debt limit as leverage to shore up ObamaCare.
House Freedom Caucus launches petition to compel Obamacare repeal vote
Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are trying a new strategy - trying for a straight repeal of the Affordable Care Act
Obamacare is imploding in one state
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace is not imploding. As the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Drew Altman pointed out, the ACA stability crisis is a matter of perspective. To understand how the marketplace is doing, you’d need to look state by state or perhaps county by county to more accurately assess. A tweet can’t contextualize this.
In broad strokes, most ACA beneficiaries will go unaffected by 2018 premium hikes and have at least one insurer option. When insur...
Most say it’s time for GOP to end effort to dismantle Obamacare, poll says
Trump has been publicly browbeating Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to continue trying to pass legislation tearing down Obama's 2010 overhaul
Republicans will try to bring back Obamacare repeal, despite unpopularity with Americans
The House Freedom Caucus will file a petition Friday in an effort to get House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to bring a “clean” Obamacare repeal bill to the House floor, despite the fact that 60 percent of Americans think it is a “good thing” that the Senate failed to pass the bill that would have repealed and replaced Obamacare.
The news that Republicans in Congress will once again attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was first reported by Politico on Friday — the same ...