The Republican tax bill is about placating the wealthy, not helping Americans

December 2, 2017 "America First", congress, Donald Trump, GOP, Ideas, inequality, News, politics, Republicans, US politics

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Coordinated care with doctors and hospitals can improve health and save money

December 2, 2017 News

Kaiser Permanente and more traditional doctor-hospital groups that are part of health care reform among few health care issues with bipartisan support.

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Republicans once predicted disaster from one-party bills. They just passed one on their own.

December 2, 2017 News

The GOP leadership in passing tax reforms just used the same tactics they lambasted Democrats for using to get Obamacare through Congress.

US Senate Republicans hastily passed their massive tax bill in the middle of the night

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Senate advances tax bill that benefits the rich and will cost $1.4 trillion dollars

December 2, 2017 congress, News, politics, Senate

The Senate voted 51 to 49 to pass its version of the GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act early Saturday morning. Many lawmakers only received the text of the massive bill, which has far-reaching implications across multiple sectors, just before the vote, leaving no time to read the almost-500 page piece of legislation.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) was the only Republican to vote against the plan, and no Democrats voted for it.

The Senate version now has to be reconciled with the House versio...

“Huge implications” of tax bill’s Obamacare mandate repeal

December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 News

National correspondent for the Washington Post, Philip Bump, joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss what's next for the GOP tax plan after the Senate's late-night approval of the overhaul, why the bill's change to an Obamacare mandate will affect poor Americans and the tactics used by Republicans to avoid public outcry over the plan.

How McConnell kept Republicans in line to win Senate tax bill

December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 News, topNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Republicans tried to repeal and replace Obamacare over the summer, they acted like “a bunch of free range chickens", said Republican Senator John Kennedy. "Everybody was upset, tired, mad, people drawing lines in the dirt."
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Senate tax bill accomplishes major Obamacare repeal goal

December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 News, topNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sweeping tax overhaul that passed the U.S. Senate on Saturday contains the Republicans' biggest blow yet to former President Barack Obama's healthcare law, repealing the requirement that all Americans obtain health insurance.
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These key provisions of the Senate tax bill may be a tough sell in the House

December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 News

A House-Senate conference committee must smooth out differences, including the estate tax and Obamacare mandate, between each chamber's bills.

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The Senate just voted on a tax bill pretty much nobody has read

December 2, 2017December 2, 2017 News

Republicans say they have the votes! They're going to pass a massive tax reform bill Friday night that would permanently lower corporate tax rates and undo the Obamacare individual coverage mandate. And a bunch of other stuff. We're not exactly sure about everything it would do yet. Why? Because we haven't read the tax reform bill.
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