Sixty-two percent of Americans say it’s the federal government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has health care coverage, a survey from Gallup found.
The figure is the highest it’s been in more than a decade. It slipped to its low of 42 percent in 2013, during the difficult rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as ObamaCare.
It was at its highest in 2006, when 69 percent of Americans believed health care should be covered by the governm...
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Vance revives old GOP fights on ObamaCare insurance coverage
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday floated an idea that would turn back the clock on covering people with preexisting conditions, relitigating a position that was a hallmark of GOP proposals to replace ObamaCare during Donald Trump’s presidency.
In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Vance said Trump’s health plan would “promote choice” in the health system by separating sicker people into different health insurance coverag...
Trump on ObamaCare repeal: ‘I have concepts of a plan’
Former President Trump said during Tuesday night’s debate he was interested in trying to repeal ObamaCare again, but indicated he doesn’t have a plan to replace it.
“We are working on things. We’re going to do it. We’re going to replace it,” Trump said.
Trump has railed against the health care law since his first presidential campaign, when many Republicans were issuing calls to “repeal and replace” the law.
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No Obamacare replacement 3 years after Trump’s promise to ‘immediately’ change it
Nearly three years after taking office, Americans still are waiting for Trump's big health insurance reveal. Prescription drug prices have edged lower, but with major legislation stuck in Congress it's unclear if that relief is the start of a trend or merely a blip.
John McCain refuses to sign GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare
“I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal,” McCain said in a statement.
U.S. health secretary says it’s his departments’ job to follow Obamacare law
He said the administration's goal was to repeal and replace Obamacare and "put in place a system that actually works for patients."
Donald Trump shrugs ‘Can’t have everything’ as Obamacare repeal flops
Republican finger-pointing commenced Friday after the Senate's dark-of-night defeat of the GOP effort to repeal much of the Obama health care law, a startling blow to President Donald Trump and congressional leaders.
Trump writes off failing health care overhaul, tweets ‘let Obamacare fail’
U.S. President Donald Trump declared Tuesday he's going to "let Obamacare fail" after the Republicans' effort to rewrite the 2010 health care overhaul imploded in Congress.
