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...
The White House’s exceedingly dishonest attack on the Congressional Budget Office
The Trumpcare misinformation campaign continues.CREDIT: screengrab
On Wednesday afternoon, the Trump administration trashed the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in an attempt to undercut its dire analysis of Trumpcare.
The White House’s official Twitter account posted a tweet that says, “The Congressional Budget Office’s math doesn’t add up. Faulty Numbers = Faulty Results.”
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What conservative pundits say about Trumpcare (spoiler: they all dislike it)
Conservative commentators have derided the Republican bill as weak, visionless, and a treasonous acceptance of the basic thrust of the Affordable Care Act
Senate Republicans pleased no one this week. Granted, they were never going to get much love from Democrats defending Obamacare, or their more progressive colleagues who are daring to talk aloud again about a single payer scheme. But their own ideological bedfellows also went after them as their plan, such as it was, was shelved un...
The Resistance Now: activists say ‘hell no’ to Republican healthcare bill
Progressives sprung into action with dozens protesting outside the Senate majority leader’s office, while Democrats took stock after Ossoff’s loss
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Dozens of people were arrested after protesting outside Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Thursday – including some in wheelchairs – as Republicans unveiled Republicans unveiled Trumpcare 2.0 (or are we on 3....