Frustrated president still lacks major legislative achievements six months into tenure as Republican defections in Senate doom replacement healthcare bill
Donald Trump said Republicans should “let Obamacare fail”, after the dramatic collapse of efforts to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Who are the ‘dopes’ that can’t pass a replacement healthcare bill?
Donald Trump has labeled the Republican senators who can’t scrape together a replacement for the Affordable Care Act – here’s who he may have meant
On Monday night Donald Trump reportedly told Republican senators they would look like “dopes” if they couldn’t pass a healthcare bill to replace the Affordable Care Act.
This is one of those occasions where the president might actually be right.
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Trump reacts to Trumpcare failure by revealing he has no clue about Senate rules
The president is Mad Online — but the anger is misdirected.DAY 63 — in this March 23, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump gestures while sitting in an 18-wheeler truck while meeting with truckers and CEOs regarding healthcare on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. CREDIT: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File
President Donald Trump is blaming Senate Democrats after the chamber’s second versio...
Repeal and delay is back, and even worse than Trumpcare
The CBO estimates that if Congress repeals Obamacare, 18 million would lose coverage next year alone.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, where he is expected to present the GOP’s revised health care bill and push toward a showdown vote next week with opposition within the Republican ranks. CREDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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Two Republicans defect, deliver death blow to Senate health care bill
Republicans could lose just one more vote or the bill wouldn’t go to the floor.The second version of the Senate Republican health care bill is dead for now.
Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) announced simultaneously on Monday evening that they would not support the motion to proceed, ultimately killing this version of the Senate’s bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Car...
Tom Price admits that the new Trumpcare is only repeal, no replace
Trump’s secretary of health and human services says all insurers have to do “is dust off how they did business before Obamacare.”HHS Secretary Tom Price on ABC’s This Week CREDIT: ABC
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised, over and over again, that he would replace Obamacare with “something terrific,” that would “take care of everybody” and be “a lot less expensive” for consumers and...
Republicans delay Trumpcare vote after John McCain has surgery
Mitch McConnell will delay consideration of health care legislation in the Senate, after John McCain's surgery left Republicans short of votes on their marquee legislation.
The Trumpcare provision that could be a death sentence for people who get sick suddenly
Trumpcare keeps getting worse.Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., center, and her son Jared, back left, greet volunteers outside a polling place at Winfield Elementary School in Windsor Mill, Md., Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Edwards is running against Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Republican governor fact-checks Pence’s lie about Medicaid
A misinformation campaign.CREDIT: AP Photo/Stephan Savoia
During a speech before the National Governors Association on Friday, Vice President Mike Pence blatantly mischaracterized the impact Trumpcare would have on Medicaid.
“Let me be clear: President Trump and I believe the Senate health care bill strengthens and secures Medicaid for the neediest in our society,” Pence said. “And this bill put...
The new Trumpcare bill keeps the single cruelest part of the old Trumpcare bill
Say goodbye to Medicaid.CREDIT: AP Photo/Molly Riley
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is fighting a two front war. At the right end of his caucus, hardliners want deep Medicaid cuts and weaker protections for people with preexisting conditions. More pragmatic conservatives, meanwhile, say they want to keep the legislation from working havoc on Medicaid.
If a new version of the Senat...