The highly unpopular GOP tax bill is on the verge of peaking. Hidden in the bill is gutting the Obamacare mandate which could result in 13 million fewer people having health care.
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Month: December 2017
Despite tax win, the GOP could be heading toward government shutdown
Congressional Republicans are cheering a major win as tax reform makes its way through Congress to President Donald Trump's desk but they could be barreling toward a government shutdown at the end of the week because of a major fight between House and Senate GOP lawmakers over Obamacare payments.
A Single Vote Has Flipped Control Of Virginia’s House Of Delegates
That one vote means that Republicans will have to share control of the state's lower house with Democrats for the first time in 17 years. Democrats say they'll use the victory to expand Medicaid.
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Abortion fight threatens Collins deal, risks shutdown
A new fight over abortion has thrown a late obstacle into negotiations on the year-end stopgap spending deal days before a possible government shutdown.House Republicans say two ObamaCare measures that Senate GOP l...
Health care activist Ady Barkan slams GOP after House approves tax bill
Health care activist Ady Barkan, who is living with ALS, said the GOP tax bill's cuts to Medicaid will put his life at risk and deprive him of his chance to see his 18-month son grow up .
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The GOP tax plan is not a game
On Tuesday afternoon, the House passed the final version of the GOP’s tax bill, and the Senate is expected to pass the bill later Tuesday night. The plan will upend the American economic system, raise taxes on middle class people making between $40,000 and $50,000 a year by more than $5 billion, cut taxes by more than $5.5 billion for people making more than $1 million a year, punish wage-earning employees, repeal the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, likely force billi...
House passes massive tax cut for corporations, the wealthy, foreign investors and Donald Trump
The House of Representatives voted 227 to 203 on Tuesday to pass the final version of the GOP Tax Cut and Jobs Act.
Lawmakers had just four days to read through the 503-page bill after it was released on Friday. Just hours before the House was set to vote, even top Republicans on the tax writing committee couldn’t speak to the basic details of the bill.
I asked Kevin Brady — THE WAYS AND MEANS CHAIRMAN — if he could name the tax brackets.
He ...
WATCH: What is CHIP?
The Children's Health Insurance Program provides health insurance for children in families that make too much money to qualify for Medicaid but still need assistance.
The Health 202: Extra Obamacare subsidies renew battle over taxpayer funding of abortion
The Hyde amendment fight is back.
Without the Insurance Mandate, Health Care’s Future May Be in Doubt
The tax bill headed for passage eliminates the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that most people have insurance. No one is sure what that will do to health care.