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...
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Susan Collins: Pence is wrong about Trumpcare’s Medicaid cuts
The Maine senator is one of two Republicans already opposing the Senate’s latest Affordable Care Act repeal bill.Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on CNN’s State of the Union CREDIT: CNN
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) dismissed claims by Vice President Mike Pence that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) latest iteration of the Trumpcare legislation “strengthens and secures Medicaid for the need...
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...
Republican health bill: latest draft would scrap contraception mandate
- Proposal in Senate bill puts women’s health coverage in precarious position
- Planned Parenthood: ‘Latest version of Trumpcare is even scarier for women’
The latest version of the US Senate’s bill to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act would eliminate the so-called birth control mandate, handing a long-sought victory to conservative activists who have spent years assailing the regulation.
The mandate is one of the most controversial benefits of the Obama administration’s enforcement of the ACA.
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The Senate’s new health care bill is still a mess
How many takes until we get a bill where millions of people don’t lose their health insurance?enate 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. CEDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
The new Senate health bill was released on Thursday, but it still looks set to deprive millions o...
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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New study sharply rebukes major GOP talking point on health care
Medicaid recipients are actually happy with their coverage.Bella Nichols, 9, of Richland, Miss., shows where she wears her insulin patch that Medicaid helps pay for, as her mother and others meet with staff members of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 29, 2017, while other recipients and their supporters stage a protest outside the offices. CREDIT: AP Photo/Rogelio V. Sol...