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.
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that he believes that health care will be the defining issue of the 2020 presidential election.
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?
Henry Olsen, Washington Post columnist and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told Breitbart News that President Trump’s re-election chances in 2020 may hinge on the Republican Party’s ability to propose a healthcare bill prioritizing “patient care” over “cost.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told President Trump that the Affordable Care Act will not be repealed or replaced until after the 2020 election.
“You got to confront it!” he said. “Republicans should not run away from health care, you can’t do it, you’re going to be clobbered.”
“I have asked John Barrasso, Bill Cassidy, who is a terrific health care person, Rick Scott, and others to form a really great plan,” Trump said.
“The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care,” Trump said to reporters on Capitol Hill. “You watch.”
Former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey (R-NY) warned that Medicare for All proposals would cause doctors to “avoid seniors like the plague.”
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), who recently entered the crowded 2020 Democratic primary field, on Friday discussed his policies, saying his goal would be “universal guaranteed” health care and raising taxes on the wealthiest in the United States of America.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, 11–6, to allow Ohio to end taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood because it performs abortions.
Appearing on MSNBC, progressive billionaire Tom Steyer claimed President Donald Trump is the “biggest crisis for America in a generation.”
Over 100 Democrats introduced their “Medicare for All” proposal on Feb. 27. It takes away private health insurance — and that’s just the beginning.
Dr. Phil said Medicare and Medicaid transformed medicine into a “high-volume business” in which quality is sacrificed in pursuit of quantity.
Monica Crowley warned of the need for a “police state” to enforce socialist proposals advanced by Democrats such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Presidential hopeful for 2020 Elizabeth Warren laid out her plan for universal child care Tuesday based on funds from what she called an ultra-millionaire tax.
Hillary Clinton warned of “real national emergencies” that included “Americans dying for lack of health care,” despite Obamacare remaining in place.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during the State of the Union Address that he is setting an objective to eliminate the spread of HIV within the United States by 2030.
President Donald Trump correctly said during his State of the Union Speech on Tuesday night America experienced the largest decline in prescription drug prices in 46 years.
Fox News Channel’s Steve Hilton, author of Positive Populism: Revolutionary Ideas to Rebuild Economic Security, Family, and Community in America, said Republicans must offer a “universal free market healthcare” plan to combat Democrats’ “Medicare for all” proposals.
The president will use the State of the Union to emphasize bipartisanship and discuss five themes: illegal immigration, trade, infrastructure, health care, and foreign wars.
Newly announced presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) dodged questions Friday over repealing private health insurance on SiriusXM’s Joe Madison Show.
Democratic presidential candidates who have embraced “Medicare for All” are suddenly struggling to explain whether they would eliminate private health insurance.
Henry Olsen warned of “Medicare for all” Democrat proposals gaining popularity in the absence of GOP solutions to rising healthcare costs.
The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California is seeking to train students to view health care as a “social justice” issue, by developing curriculum that will more effectively ingrain socialist ideology into the minds of its graduate students.
Mark Green (R-TN) told Breitbart News that House Republicans are in “lockstep” and “all together” on the issue of border security.
The new president of Planned Parenthood took to Twitter Tuesday to finally confirm her organization’s “core mission” is abortion.
DeSantis pledged to continue Florida’s prosperity, support its environment, improve education, and work with Congress to improve health care.
A federal requirement requiring hospitals to post how much they charge for their services online will go into effect on January 1, 2019.
President Donald Trump said Monday he would be willing to work with Democrats to fix health care after Obamacare was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge.
