Personal bankruptcies are down 50% in the US. Thanks, Obamacare?

August 7, 2017 "America First", Affordable Care Act, health insurance, healthcare, News, obamacare, politics

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Senate Republicans quietly wave the white flag on Obamacare repeal

August 1, 2017 health, healthcare, News, obamacare, politics, republican-party

Multiple Republican lawmakers seem to have dismissed Trump’s call to keep moving on health care.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., listens to a question while speaking with the media, June 27, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Alex Brandon
After six months of Republican-led closed door meetings on health care, Senate leadership finally looks to be pivoting.
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Graham says GOP Senators are still taking orders from Trump on Obamacare repeal

August 1, 2017 News, obamacare

“We are going to listen to President Trump.”Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2017, as the Republican majority in Congress remains stymied by their inability to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace “Obamacare.” CREDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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The accounting that explains why Donald Trump can’t make Obamacare “implode”

August 1, 2017 "America First", ACA, Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, health care, healthcare, News, obamacare, obamacare repeal, politics, repeal, repeal and replace, trump

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Trump’s latest attempt to gut Obamacare could backfire spectacularly

July 31, 2017 Donald Trump, health, healthcare, law, News, obamacare

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...

Obamacare enrollees and activists cautiously celebrate their health victory

July 30, 2017 health, Health Care Reform, News, obamacare, trumpcare

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.
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U.S. health secretary says it’s his departments’ job to follow Obamacare law

July 30, 2017 Affordable Care Act, health care, News, obamacare, obamacare repeal, politics, tom-price, World

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

July 28, 2017 Donald Trump, Donald Trump health care, News, obamacare, obamacare repeal, Obamacare repeal bill, politics, Trump Obamacare, World

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.

Photos: The faces of lawmakers leaving the Senate late-night health care vote

July 28, 2017 Donald Trump, health care, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski, News, obamacare, Senate, susan-collins, trumpcare

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Fox & Friends identifies the real monsters of the health care debate: Democrats taking selfies

July 28, 2017 News, obamacare

“Congratulations, the healthy people are paying for the sick people.”CREDIT: Fox News screengrab
Around 1:40 a.m. Friday morning, at the end of a process that didn’t involve a single committee hearing, Republican senators attempted to dramatically alter the health insurance system by repealing key aspects of Obamacare. The “skinny repeal” bill — which would’ve resulted in 16 million Americans losing t...