health care

The State of California is about to pass a new healthcare plan that attempts to support and expand Obamacare, partly by providing free health care to some adult illegal aliens.

All three major cable news networks cut away from President Donald Trump’s healthcare policy announcement on Friday, as he unveiled a new rule change designed to expand insurance coverage options for small business employees.

The event will take place at the Rose Garden at the White House on Friday and is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. EST.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry told Breitbart News Tonight on Tuesday that Republicans need to step up and fix health care. 

Democrat state lawmakers in progressive California have agreed to a plan that would extend health benefits to qualifying illegal immigrants residing in the state.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD) Sunday to “sashay away” over his opposition to Medicare for All, contending that the single-payer, government-run health care program is “sound policy.”

President Donald Trump plans to tackle price transparency as well as regional health insurance and hospital monopolies as part of a broader strategy on revitalizing American health care.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy slammed former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday as the “Jeb Bush of this cycle.”

Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris spoke at a campaign event on Wednesday and derided “the same kind of people” who passed Alabama pro-life legislation.

In an interview released Sunday with CBS affiliate network in Iowa, 2020 White House contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pledged to eliminate private insurance and raises taxes to help fund his “Medicare for All” plan if elected president.  

A Monmouth University poll released on Monday showed that only ten percent of Americans have a positive view of socialism.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote an op-ed claiming maternal healthcare workers practice “racism” when treating black women.

Democrats will hold their first congressional hearing on the single-payer, government-run healthcare proposal known as Medicare for All on Tuesday. 

Americans trust Democrats more than Republicans by more than double digits to handle health care, according to a poll released this week.

Only one in five Americans think the federal government provides better service and coverage than private health insurance companies, according to the latest Rasmussen/Harris poll. 

Less than one-third of Americans said that implementing a Medicare for All healthcare plan amounts to a “top priority,” according to a poll released Wednesday.

A new Morning Consult poll shows that “Medicare for All” falls just short of majority support (47%) — but that 31% of Republicans support the policy, which is being championed by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and other 2020 Democratic candidates.

The question for 2020 is whether the Democrats will quietly champion a manageable national health plan or allow their avant-garde ideological ambitions to get the best of them.

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.”