The latest effort by Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act threatens to make health care unaffordable and inaccessible for millions of older Americans, according to a report from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) released Wednesday evening.
The bill, spearheaded by Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would block grant health care funding to the states. Those grants would steadily decline over time, resulting in a $239...
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With the clock ticking, Senate plans to vote on new Obamacare repeal bill next week
Senate Republicans have until September 30 to pass the bill.
How the Graham-Cassidy bill compares with past Republican health care repeal efforts
How Graham-Cassidy compares with past Republican Obamacare repeal efforts.
WATCH: Activist group Indivisible aims to kill the Graham-Cassidy health care bill
ABC News' Molly Nagle speaks with Indivisible co-founder Leah Greenberg about her group's efforts to stop the latest attempt to repeal Obamacare.
GOP senator says it doesn’t matter how bad the latest Obamacare replacement is – he’s voting for it
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley thinks that Republicans have a “responsibility” to repeal the affordable care act, even if it leaves the country worse off.
Speaking with reporters in his home state of Iowa, Grassley argued that the GOP had campaigned on repealing Obamacare so much that they were left with no choice but to carry out their promises.
“I could maybe give you 10 reasons why this bill shouldn’t be considered,” Grassley told the Des Moin...
Obama on Republican repeal-and-replace efforts: ‘It is aggravating’
The president praised the 2010 Affordable Care Act as "hard-won progress."
Trump blocks woman with stage 4 cancer on Twitter after she criticized his latest health care plan
On Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted out his support for the so-called Graham-Cassidy health care bill that would allow insurers to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions and could cause tens of millions to lose coverage.
I hope Republican Senators will vote for Graham-Cassidy and fulfill their promise to Repeal & Replace ObamaCare. Money direct to States!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 20, 2017
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Report finds that every state would suffer under Trumpcare
The latest attempt by Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, spearheaded by Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would reduce federal funding to states by $215 billion over ten years, ultimately decreasing funding for all states, according to an analysis released Wednesday.
The bill has the support of President Donald Trump, who has consistently pushed for Republicans to repeal and replace the ACA after repeated failures to do so in re...
Caught in a lie, Sen. Bill Cassidy lashes out at Jimmy Kimmel
During his show on Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel called Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) a liar.
“A few months ago after my son had open heart surgery, which was something I spoke about on the air, a politician, a Senator named Bill Cassidy from Louisiana was on my show and he wasn’t very honest,” Kimmel said, going on to describe how Cassidy, during the interview on his show, came up with the concept of the “Jimmy Kimmel test” — which holds that “[n]...