Trump claims he never sought vote to replace Obamacare before 2020 election

April 3, 2019 Affordable Care Act, congress, Donald Trump, health, News, obamacare, politics, World

Amid blowback from Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump switched gears again Wednesday, suggesting he never wanted Congress to vote to replace the Affordable Care Act until after the 2020 election.

Two Republican attorneys general just made Trump look like a fool with one crisp paragraph

April 1, 2019 Donald Trump, News, obamacare, politics

Last week, over the objections of President Donald Trump’s own attorney general and his own health secretary, the Trump administration announced that it would not defend the Affordable Care Act against a lawsuit that is widely viewed as frivolous. On Monday, the Republican attorneys general of Ohio and Montana joined the chorus of legal experts who oppose Trump’s effort to kill Obamacare by judicial decree, filing an amicus brief arguing that the operative parts of the law shou...

One of Trump’s health reform picks says he actually wants to improve Obamacare

April 1, 2019 Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, health, News, obamacare, politics

It’s pretty obvious that the Trump administration has no real plan for what to do next should the federal courts overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — just look at who the president put in charge of the replacement plan.

Last week, President Donald Trump said a team of GOP senators will craft legislation that will replace the ACA, including Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL). But on Monday, Scott said he’s actually more interested in improving the current health law.

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Donald Trump’s ‘party of health care’ has spent a decade failing to repeal and replace Obamacare

March 31, 2019 Donald Trump, health care, News, obamacare, politics

After a bruising midterm election in which widespread insecurity over the future of health care helped pace extraordinary gains for Democrats, allowing them to retake the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump has decided to re-up this failed strategy.

This week, the White House let it be known that the administration would not defend the Affordable Care Act in a case that could end in the wholesale invalidation of the Obama-era health care reform law. Such a result would ...

Trump claims the GOP is the ‘party of health care,’ but his health care plans are losing in court

March 29, 2019 Affordable Care Act, health, medicaid, News, obamacare

After vowing to strike down Obamacare and implement a replacement that will enshrine the GOP as the “party of health care,” President Donald Trump is off to a rocky start this week. In quick succession, he was dealt two major health care blows in the courts.

On Thursday, a federal judge blocked so-called “association health plans” (AHPs) — an avenue that Trump has long touted as a method of providing “tremendous health care at very small cost.”

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Trump just gave a huge gift to an alleged billion dollar Medicare fraudster

March 28, 2019 Donald Trump, News, obamacare, politics

Monday night, the Trump administration informed a federal appeals court that it would no longer defend the Affordable Care Act after a judge in Texas declared that the entire law must be struck down. The judge, Reed O’Connor, is a former Republican Senate staffer with a history of striking down policies opposed by conservatives. O’Connor’s opinion is widely viewed as ridiculous, even by conservative legal scholars and health policy experts.

Yet, while O’Conno...

What will happen if the Trump administration wins the lawsuit to repeal Obamacare?

March 27, 2019 GOP, health care, News, obamacare, texas

Nearly every U.S. resident would be impacted in some way if the Trump administration gets its way and the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) is invalidated in court.

Susan Lyon of California, for example, is deeply concerned for her husband and business partner who has Parkinson’s disease. Without the ACA, she suspects her insurance would charge a lot more because of her husband’s pre-existing condition. She purchases health insurance through the ACA’s Small Business Healt...

Trump’s attack on Obamacare shows he’s not learning as president

March 27, 2019 ACA, Affordable Care Act, News, obamacare, susan-collins

Donald Trump should be celebrating, after the Department of Justice said March 24 special counsel Robert Mueller’s report found the president didn’t collude with Russia in the 2016 US election. Instead he’s trying, yet again, to destroy “Obamacare,” ...

Remember when Republicans vowed to be the party to protect pre-existing condition coverage?

March 26, 2019 Affordable Care Act, health, health care, medicaid, News, obamacare, politics, Republicans

After the president and Republicans repeatedly promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions, the Trump administration on Monday evening said it supports a federal judge’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional, adding that it will seek to repeal the sweeping health care law in its entirety.

The Justice Department filed a brief letter in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit telling the court that it agrees with Judge Reed O’C...

BREAKING: Bill Barr’s Justice Department just gave the middle finger to the rule of law

March 26, 2019 News, obamacare, politics, Republicans

Last December, a Republican judge named Reed O’Connor handed down an opinion purporting to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act. The case, Texas v. United States, was brought by several Republican officials who manipulated the process used to assign judges to cases in order to get this case into O’Connor’s courtroom.

O’Connor, a former Republican Capitol Hill staffer, has a history of striking down policies supported by Democrats on highly dubi...