Congratulations on your expanded welfare state!CREDIT: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
As soon as this week, according to Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, Trump intends to decide whether to cut off payments intended to stabilize insurance markets and make health care affordable for many Americans with modest incomes.
Trump apparently believes that cutting off these payments will help “implode” Obam...
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Obamacare enrollees and activists cautiously celebrate their health victory
The ACA has seen too many near-death experiences.Credit: Amanda Gomez/ThinkProgress
The Senate voted against the Republican health bill dubbed “skinny repeal” early Friday morning, halting efforts to annul the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Supporters of the current health care aren’t convinced and will continue to forge ahead by protesting amid their celebrating.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-...
BREAKING: Republicans defect, kill Senate effort to repeal Obamacare
Obamacare lives to see another day.CREDIT: Screenshot/C-SPAN2
The Senate voted against the Health Care Freedom Act (HCFA) early Friday morning, with a vote of 49–51.
The so-called “skinny repeal” bill made serious cuts to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and would have left 16 million people uninsured by 2026. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John McCain (R-AZ), and Susan Collins (R-ME) were the only...
The 3 most compelling moments from the Senate’s late night health care debate
Things got heated while the GOP rammed through their bill.Demonstrators rally outside of the Capitol as the Republican majority in Congress remains stymied by their inability to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace “Obamacare” because of opposition and wavering within the GOP ranks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Cliff Owen
The Senate continue...
Bernie Sanders: Trump is right, Australia’s healthcare system is better than ours – video
Donald Trump told the Australian prime minister in May, ‘You have better healthcare than we do’. As the US Senate votes on repealing the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, Bernie Sanders has taken to the Senate floor to agree with Trump: ‘He’s not right very often, but on this issue he is.’ Australia has a universal healthcare system that costs less than half what the US spends per capita on healthcare and delivers much better outcomes
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GOP Senators threaten to blow up Trumpcare unless they are given an unconstitutional guarantee
Everything about this process is shocking.CREDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), John McCain (R-AZ), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) held an odd press conference Thursday evening where they announced that they will vote for the latest gambit to advance Trumpcare, but only if they can be sure that the bill they vote for does not become law.
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Senate GOP prepared to vote for health care bill they don’t support, could become law
Are Republicans falling for the old okie-doke?Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18. President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and “a few Republicans” over the collapse of the GOP effort to rewrite t...
Advocates anticipate severe gutting of reproductive rights in health care bill
No matter what is voted on in Congress, reproductive rights advocates fear women’s health care will be endangered.Demonstrators march around the Capitol Building as they protest against the Senate GOP healthcare bill in Washington, June 28, 2017. CREDIT: AP/Andrew Harnik
A proxy vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act and defunding Planned Parenthood failed Wednesday, but as the health care debate c...
White House threatens to retaliate against Alaska if their senator votes against Trumpcare
Bully tactics.CREDIT: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
On Wednesday morning, President Trump criticized Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Twitter, accusing her of letting “Republicans, and our country, down” by voting against a motion to proceed on health care discussion the day before.
But that wasn’t all. According to a report in Alaska Dispatch News, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called Murkowski and...
