Trump told reporters Republicans have the votes on health care.
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Trump reportedly plans to raise bottom tax rate to offset tax cuts for wealthy
With multiple failed attempts at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, all eyes are on Republicans as they prepare to pass major tax reform measures that would effectively provide a hefty tax cut to the top tax bracket while lowering the corporate tax rate to around 20 percent from 35 percent.
As President Donald Trump prepares to announce his plan to “cut taxes tremendously for the middle-class” tomorrow, details about the tax reform plan, which was largely c...
Another ACA repeal bill is dead, but it was never about crafting policy
On Monday night, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Lindsay Graham (R-SC), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) gathered for a CNN town hall debate over a health care bill spearheaded by Graham and Cassidy.
“This is a debate about who has the power, you or the federal government?” Cassidy said at one point. “I will tell you, if it’s a decision about you versus the federal government, we side with you…. Those who oppose us and those who want single-payer, they choose otherwise.”
When Cassidy’s health clinic closed, its patients only saving grace was Obamacare
Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic — a virtual health clinic in Louisiana co-founded by then-doctor and now Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — closed in July 2015. It had been getting increasingly harder to get grants to fund the ‘clinic without walls,’ which connected uninsured people who needed care to providers; it was a free clinic and received no federal or state funds. After much deliberation, the clinic shut its doors.
“We felt better about closing th...
WATCH: The Note: The health care flameout
Senate Republicans' health care proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears to be dead after a third GOP senator announced her opposition and Alabama Republicans vote in the GOP runoff primary for Jeff Sessions' former Senate seat today.
Graham and Cassidy were asked why they’re defunding Planned Parenthood. Their answers were ridiculous
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) invoked highly edited, debunked videos targeting Planned Parenthood from 2015 at a CNN town hall Monday night when a woman shared her story of how Planned Parenthood helped her have children.
Graham, along with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), has been spearheading a repeal and replace bill in the Senate that would, among other things, defund Planned Parenthood.
The woman at Monday’s town hall told a story about when Planned Parenthood discovered cysts and...
Republican’s last-gasp effort to demolish Obamacare has likely failed
The last-gasp Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama's health care law essentially died Monday.
Republicans revolt again, seemingly doom Trump’s latest effort to repeal Obamacare
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announced Monday that she will vote against the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act following the release of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score, seemingly killing the latest attempt by Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare.
The CBO didn’t have sufficient time to conduct a full analysis but said “millions” of Americans would lose their health care.
Senator Collins oppo...
181 protesters arrested after disrupting Graham-Cassidy bill hearing
Protesters chanted: "No cuts to Medicaid! Save our liberty!"
National Association of Evangelicals blasts GOP effort to repeal Obamacare
A long list of faith groups from across the religious spectrum have condemned the various Republican-led efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this year, with many vocally protesting the proposals on Capitol Hill.
But now religious advocates can claim a new, unusual ally in their effort to stop the GOP’s latest effort to do away with Obamacare: the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE).
According to a list of statements distributed on Monday afterno...