Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders slammed Republicans on Wednesday as he unveiled legislation that would expand the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly to all Americans. ‘To my Republican colleagues, please don’t lecture us on healthcare,’ Sanders said at an event on Capitol Hill. ‘You, the Republican Party, have no credibility on the issue of healthcare’
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Month: September 2017
Trump cheers long-shot Senate effort to revisit Obamacare repeal
The proposal would provide block grants to states for health care and eliminate many of the subsidies and requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
Republicans make last-minute pitch for Obamacare repeal plan
A small group of GOP lawmakers reveals plan to repeal Obamacare.
Sam Brownback, governor of Kansas, heads for the exit
GOVERNORS of Kansas tend to love their job and rarely leave it early. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, dithered before agreeing to leave the governor’s mansion after Barack Obama asked her to lead the introduction of the Affordable Care Act as Secretary of Health and Human Services. The current Republican governor, Sam Brown...
Trump applauds Republican senators for introducing new ObamaCare repeal bill
President Trump on Wednesday applauds the Republican senators who introduced a new bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare after the upper chamber's failure to pass healthcare legislation in July.
Trump to Dine Wednesday Night with Congress’s Top Democrats
Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi plan to raise the plight of young, undocumented immigrants and Obamacare at dinner.
7 tough questions single-payer advocates must answer before their ideas can become law
Single-payer health care is having a moment.
The unexpected success of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign, Democratic lawmakers searching for a new agenda in the Trump era, and the fact that Obamacare has revealed both the benefits and the limitations at a market-driven plan to expand health access have all combined to make a unified, government-run health plan seem like an attractive solution to our broken system.
Nearly every Senate Democrat with presid...
