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...
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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...
Rand Paul makes one last pitch for the wholesale privatization of health care
“You have to believe that … the marketplace will bring the prices down.”CREDIT: Fox News Screengrab
One reason why the latest iteration of Trumpcare — the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act, or BCRA — seems to be in a lot of trouble right now is because it faces Republican dissenters from both the center and the right. While relative moderates like Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) oppose BCRA because it ...
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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Members of both parties are talking about a post-Trumpcare health care approach
Here’s what bipartisan tweaks to Obamacare might look like.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., listens to a question while speaking with the media after he and other Senate Republicans had a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, in Washington. CREDIT: AP/Alex Brandon
With the prospects for Trumpcare in the Senate looking grim, lawmakers from both si...
Trumpcare protestors aren’t swayed by promises of a new bill
Health Activists outside the office of Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ). CREDIT: Amanda Gomez/ThinkProgress
As the Senate returned from July 4 recess on Monday, health activists followed their respective senators back to Washington D.C., kicking off a week that will likely be filled with last-ditch efforts from protesters to block the Senate health bill. The day ended with dozens of arrests.
Senate Rep...