If the healthcare issue is due for a revival, as President Donald Trump is indicating, then it’s worth recalling, and seeking to learn from, some of the pitfalls that befell the big and ambitious healthcare plan of his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Democrats hammered the GOP on healthcare in 2018, and without a doubt, they look forward to running on healthcare, again, in 2020. And from their point of view, why shouldn’t they?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told President Trump that the Affordable Care Act will not be repealed or replaced until after the 2020 election.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) revealed in an op-ed on Tuesday that she supports a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate.
Yes, the Obamacare issue is ba-a-ack. Congressional Republicans could, in fact, be voting on the fate of the program — formally known as the Affordable Care Act — within days.
Instead of promising to repeal and replace Obamacare, Republicans continue to work with Chuck Schumer on legislation to bail out Obamacare.
Republicans continue to plot whether they want to tie Obamacare repeal to tax reform or repeal Obamacare next year.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum told Breitbart News Daily host Raheem Kassam on Monday, “Anyone who votes again this bill,” referring to the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill, “and says, ‘I’m still for repealing Obamacare,’ they’re a liar because they had a chance to repeal Obamacare, and they didn’t.”
On Thursday’s Morning Joe panel, MSNBC’s Mark Halperin criticized the GOP’s attempts to pass the down-to-the-wire Graham-Cassidy health care bill by suggesting they are “making many of the same mistakes” former President Barack Obama made to pass the failing Obamacare legislation: being dishonest.
The left is reportedly throwing the kitchen sink at the Graham-Cassidy (GCHJ) bill in a last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare using “full war footing.”
Chairwoman of the RNC says that passing healthcare reform matters for the American people and will matter even more for the party in the 2018 midterms.
Fifteen Republican governors sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, urging the Senate to pass the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants to the states.
Mike Pence flew back to Capitol Hill for a few hours with Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday, telling the on-board press pool reporter of the push for the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill from President Donald Trump, Pence, Graham, Steve Bannon, among others.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), is publicly supporting a renewed push to repeal and replace Obamacare with a state-centric system that devolves power away from Washington, D.C., out to the 50 states.
Democratic Reps. Ted Lieu (CA-33) and Linda Sanchez (CA-38) are hosting “town hall” meetings this week in Orange County targeting Republican Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (CA-48) and Ed Royce (CA-39).
Republicans have long been united in opposition to Obamacare, but opposition is a sentiment—it’s not a strategy. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that Republicans were never together—were never operating as a team—to pursue an effective anti-Obamacare vision. Most glaringly, the GOP was long on “repeal” and short on “replace,” even as the country clearly expected both repeal and replace.
President Donald Trump is threatening to cancel $7 billion in reimbursements to insurers. Even if the president decides to keep the subsidies, they may disappear anyway — because of an ongoing court challenge.
The Republican Party is already behaving as if it is no longer a governing party, and merely awaits the verdict of the voters in 2018 to seal its fate.
President Donald Trump singled out Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski for voting against the debate to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Vice President Mike Pence urged a roundtable of influential business and conservative group leaders gathered on Friday to use all of their resources to pressure members of Congress to begin debate on the repeal of Obamacare.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday about the need for Congress to vote on a clean repeal of Obamacare.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed reporters outside the White House directly after meeting with President Donald Trump and stated that an Obamacare repeal bill will occur next week.
President Donald Trump pulled the trigger on Tuesday, following through on his promise to “let Obamacare fail” after Republican Senators filed to muster the votes to repeat their 2015 vote to repeal Obamacare entirely.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday Vice President Mike Pence declared that he and President Donald Trump stand behind a full repeal of Obamacare and support passing a new healthcare bill later “with a clean slate.”
President Donald J. Trump is calling on congressional Republicans to drop their failed efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare in one fell swoop and instead pass a clean repeal of the failed health care overhaul from the previous administration now and push through a bipartisan replacement plan later.
VP Mike Pence declared to a room full of Maverick PAC conference attendees on Saturday night that a vote on the Senate health care bill could come as early as next week. a
The Wall Street Journal criticized Republican moderates in its lead editorial Thursday for their reluctance to support the latest version of the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Better Care Reconciliation Act.
Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is joining calls for Congress to cancel August recess until Obamacare is repealed and replaced.
On Obamacare, Henry Olsen says Reagan would have backed repeal. However, he adds, Reagan also would have wanted to preserve parts of Obamacare.
President Donald Trump suggested in a tweet that if Republicans remain unable to pass their current healthcare bill, they should immediately repeal and then replace Obamacare.
Wednesday at a news conference given by House Democrats on Capitol Hill about health care, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the Republican’s Obamacare so-called repeal-and-replace bill was “deadly.” Pelosi said, “We are understanding that the Republicans want to
There is only one way to change Congress’s incentives, and that is to change the default option — to make sure Obamacare is repealed, whether or not Congress comes up with a plan to replace it.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) leadership was called into question by new voices Thursday night as hopes expire of passing a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare before President Donald Trump’s first 100 days end on Saturday.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows met with the Vice President late Monday after which he told reporters the caucus was “intrigued” at an offer to give states an option to waive two provisions of Obamacare.
A new Trump health insurance bill that hearkens back to his campaign promises could explicitly repeal Obamacare — and offer catastrophic coverage instead.
President Trump has used the struggles of the American Health Care Act to improve his leverage to prepare a better Obamacare replacement.
Vice President Mike Pence promised an aggressive schedule for repealing and replacing Obamacare during a Thursday interview on Fox News’Special Report with Bret Baier.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) told reporters Wednesday at the weekly Republican House leadership press conference at the Capitol Hill headquarters of the Republican National Committee that the American Health Care Act he supports was written in a series of private meetings, rather than through “regular order,” the normal committee process.
Vice President Mike Pence took to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers on the heels of the release of Republican House Leaders’ plan to replace Obamacare.
Speaker Ryan told OppCast that the Republican Obamacare replacement plan will parallel the Empowering Patients First Act introduced by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
