Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is praising Roy Moore - the Alabama GOP primary opponent to Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) - for his opposition to the latest GOP ObamaCare repeal bill."Good to see [he] gets it. He won't vote...
Month: September 2017
Trumpcare’s ‘Alaska Bribe’ has a big constitutional problem
In one of the more surreal chapters in the ongoing Trumpcare saga, the Independent Journal Review’s Haley Byrd reports that some of Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) Republican colleagues hope to entice her into supporting their latest effort to repeal Obamacare by letting Alaska keep much of Obamacare.
Under the reported deal — alternatively nicknamed the “Alaska Bribe,” the “Alaska Purchase,” the “Polar Purchase,” and the “Sno...
The president’s health department’s auspicious Trumpcare estimates deal a blow to GOP health bill
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), projects federal health care spending would be $18 billion lower in 2026 under the latest Republican health care bill than under current law. In all, 31 states would receive less federal money for providing their residents with health insurance.
The CMS estimate — first obtained by Axios — is more generous to the Graham-Cassidy bill than previous rel...
Right-wing pundit offers ridiculous explanation for Price’s charter jet flights
On Friday morning, Fox News contributor and conservative media blogger Erick Erickson told Fox & Friends hosts that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price only chartered private jets for business travel because the left “want[ed] him dead.” Price came under fire this week after Politico reported that the secretary had spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars flying privately, rather than opting for commercial tickets like his predecessors.
“H...
WH officials have reservations about health care bill: report
The White House officials have privately expressed reservations about Senate Republicans' latest effort to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act, despite President Trump's public enthusiasm for the measure....
Cassidy argues his bill protects people with preexisting conditions, because Trump tweeted it did
During a radio interview on Thursday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) made a case that the health care bill bearing his name must protect people with preexisting conditions, because President Trump said so in a tweet.
In response to host C.L. Bryant’s question about how the so-called Graham-Cassidy legislation will affect people with preexisting conditions, Cassidy’s immediately brought up a tweet Trump published Wednesday evening.
I would not sign G...
Paul: ‘I won’t be bribed or bullied’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kent.) pushed back on Friday against pressure from President Trump to vote for a last-ditch GOP effort in the Senate to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, saying that he "won't be bribed or bull...
W.H. pressures GOP senators to back Obamacare repeal bill
Senate set to vote on bill proposed by GOP Sens. Bill Cassidy, Lindsey Graham next week
Kimmel: ‘Trump would sign anything if it meant getting rid of ObamaCare’
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel continued his arguments against the latest Republican effort to repeal ObamaCare, taking aim at President Trump Thursday night and joking he would "sign anything if it meant getting rid of Oba...
Senator thinks Sanders won’t discuss…
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT., discusses the latest hostilities between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, Sanders, the Graham-Cassidy bill and why he thinks Sanders won't discuss single payer in a debate.
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