During a press conference on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) praised the healthcare agreement struck by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA). Schumer said, “I want to salute both Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray for
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative John Garamendi (D-CA) argued that healthcare legislation proposed by Republicans is “terrible” for people “purposefully,” and “physically” hurts them. Garamendi said, “The problem here is not that the Democrats are not working
While speaking at a Cabinet meeting on Monday, President Trump declared that Obamacare doesn’t exist anymore and that when premiums increase, it is the Democrats’ fault because they voted for Obamacare. Trump said, “Republicans are meeting with Democrats because of
“Steve is very committed. He’s a friend of mine, and he is very committed getting things passed,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday when asked about Bannon’s decision to challenge establishment Senate Republicans opposed to the president’s agenda.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” host Joy Reid argued President Trump is engaging in extortion by making Obamacare, which wasn’t failing, fail and then “essentially go back to Congress with hostages.” After playing a montage of Trump saying Obamacare
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell argued President Trump is trying to make the healthcare system worse and “screw up people’s lives.” Rampell said, “I go back and forth between thinking he actually believes he’s making the
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) stated President Trump broke the health care system, the current system is now Trumpcare, and now the president has to work with Democrats to fix it. Gallego said, “Republicans
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short stated that the White House believes it has enough commitments for votes to repeal Obamacare when the next chance to do so comes up in
“This will cost the United States government virtually nothing and will provide people great, great health care,” Trump said.
President Trump will today legalize and allow individuals to form Health Associations and purchase insurance across state lines. This is what real free market replacement looks like. Millions of Americans will be eligible to band together to demand less-expensive insurance. The 28 million individuals left behind by Obamacare will now be eligible for inexpensive insurance.
Establishment Republicans and operatives are panicking over recent moves by Breitbart News Executive Chairman and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon — who is lining up a series of primary challenges in 2018 to lawmakers he sees as hurting President Trump’s agenda.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” President Donald Trump offered a preview of his forthcoming action on health care. Part of that Trump said would involve the ability to purchase health insurance coverage across state line boundaries. “We are going
Fans of the Seinfeld Show may remember Elaine’s dilemma when her favorite form of birth control was being discontinued, leading to her and other characters’ decision to stockpile her brand and to wonder whether her dates were “sponge-worthy.” If you read the headlines last week about changes to the Affordable Care Act mandates, you may have thought that fiction had become fact as groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL turned on the hyperbolic sirens claiming the end of birth control was near. Fake news personified.
“I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “ObamaCare is badly broken, big premiums. Who knows!”
It’s sort of poetic, in a sad way, that the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on September 29 coincided so closely with the expiration of the 2017 budget resolution on September 30. Those two events signaled the end, at least for now, of Congressional Republicans’ efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare through reconciliation; thus closing the 2017 chapter of the ongoing healthcare fight. However, the fight will likely continue next year. And so, we might consider ways to shift an approach that failed in 2017 to a strategy that could win in 2018.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Live,” Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) argued that health insurance premiums are increasing because President Trump has been working to “sabotage” the Affordable Care Act. Van Hollen said, “[W]e need to, number one, make sure
President Donald Trump tweeted a video on Monday of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promising at least 13 times to repeal and replace Obamacare.
During a healthcare debate on CNN on Monday, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) remarked that she loved the male senators on stage with her, “but maybe if we added a few more women senators,” before she was drowned out by applause
During a healthcare debate on CNN on Monday, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) argued that the Charlie Gard case is the “logical extension” of the left’s narrative on health care. Cassidy said, “For 25 years, I worked in the public system
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative John Yarmuth (D-KY) stated the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill would “cause untold suffering in every community” and is “monstrous. Cruel. Even deadly.” Transcript as Follows: “Hello. I’m Congressman John Yarmuth from Louisville, Kentucky, and the
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that Obamacare did redistribute income and President Obama should have said so. Maher said, “Obamacare is not putting us into the red. No. It’s
In an interview with Birmingham, AL’s CBS affiliate WIAT that aired Friday, Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) said he supported the “concept” of the Graham-Cassidy health care legislation, but he wants to review the “specifics” of the bill regarding Alabama before he
On Thursday’s broadcast of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Senator Al Franken (D-MN) referred to the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill as “the Screw You Billy Kimmel Act of 2017.” Franken began the interview by thanking and praising Kimmel for his monologue on health
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) predicted that the Graham-Cassidy bill will receive 50 Republican votes and votes from a few Democrats. Graham said, “I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never been more
Democrats try to discredit the GOP healthcare plan, including falsely claiming it does not not protect pre-existing conditions.
Jimmy Kimmel used his late-night platform to continue his assault on the GOP health care bill, firing back at critics including U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy and “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel railed against Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La) Tuesday, calling the GOP lawmaker a liar for introducing a new health care bill he claims doesn’t pass the so-called ‘Jimmy Kimmel Test.’
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) responded to criticisms of the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill by both Jimmy Kimmel and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). Graham said, “Well, he’s describing Obamacare. About 70%
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted the Graham-Cassidy Bill as “barely Obamacare-lite.” Rand said Graham-Cassidy “actually keeps the Obamacare spending and just redistributes it among the states. It’s a $1.2
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey endorsed the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill, suggesting that is the “best path forward” to repealing Obamacare.
Tea Party Patriots president Jenny Beth Martin released a statement on Monday endorsing the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill and argued that we should “set our country on a path to fully repeal Obamacare, and restore freedom, choice and affordability to our health care system.”
Bob Moffit, Heritage Foundation senior fellow for health policy studies spoke to Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday regarding Bernie Sanders’ unveiling of his new single-payer health care plan.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds endorsed the new plan to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants to the states.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement that she supports the Obamacare block grant repeal plan.
Editor’s Note: This Op-Ed was submitted to Breitbart Texas by the Texas Public Policy Foundation and was written by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD, MBA. So many narratives about healthcare abound, it is hard to understand why no one seems able to
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Dean Heller, and Ron Johnson (R-WI), as well as former Senator Rick Santorum, announced a press conference on Wednesday to reveal their legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that his coalition’s Obamacare repeal plan to block grant health care to the states “defies the Washington establishment–it returns power to the states.”
Ohio Gov. John Kasich released a bipartisan Obamacare stabilization plan with Colorado Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continues to push for an alternative plan to repeal and replace Obamacare through block grants.
Healthcare professionals working in Swedish hospitals are living in fear as a result of threats and violence from criminal patients and their extended families.
With the health care debacle in the rear view mirror for the time being, the consensus is that the administration badly needs a victory this year on tax reform if the president is to regain the political momentum he lost by following the lead of the hapless GOP congressional leadership who sold him on Obamacare repeal as an early, easy win.
