Family Research Council (FRC) and other pro-life groups say they are supporting the Senate GOP’s latest draft of a healthcare measure that would eliminate over 86 percent of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding for one year.
The revised Senate healthcare bill, known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), contains several new handouts designed to entice moderate senators to support the healthcare bill.
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.
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about delaying the August recess so Congress can work on vitally needed legislation, prominently including the Obamacare repeal and replacement bill.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday night about the need to expand Medicaid, without realizing the sign next to her misspelled the word “Medicaid.”
Texas is looking to the Trump Administration to approve a request that the state be permitted to exclude abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood from receiving a portion of federal Medicaid funding.
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin will ask the Trump White House to impose stricter work requirements on Medicaid recipients.
As Orange County, Ca. was making its final bankruptcy bond payment to end its 23-year bankruptcy reorganization; Illinois, Connecticut, and Maine went into default shut-downs after failing to pass state budgets before the start of their July 1st fiscal years.
Anthem announced they will stop selling insurance in all but three Nevada counties on the state’s Obamacare exchanges.
Tom Miller, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) specializing in health insurance regulation, discussed the Senate’s Obamacare reform bill with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily.
California’s Medi-Cal expansion failed over the last three years to deliver on its promise to cut costs, due to a 44 percent increase in the number of visits to high-cost hospital emergency rooms.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” White House aide Kellyanne Conway said the Senate health care bill changes to Medicaid only affect the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare which “went way above the poverty line and opened it up to able-bodied
California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Los Angeles) has blamed the collapse of the state legislature’s effort to socialize the state’s $389.5 billion in healthcare spending on the U.S. Senate Republicans’ restructure of Obamacare, which threatens to “reallocate” over a third of California’s $82 billion of Medicaid funding to other states.
The Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said that the American bishops are “examining very closely” the discussion draft of the U.S. Senate’s health care bill but that as it stands the bill is “unacceptable.”
Senate Republicans continue to draft a health care bill. Here are a few key planks of the evolving legislation.
While Obamacare repeal stalls in the Senate, Iowa hopes to implement a plan that could save individual health insurance in the state.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to drug test Medicaid recipients has been met with differing opinions from those in the state government.
The Democrat-controlled Legislature’s efforts to establish ‘Healthy California Act’ as a $400 billion a year takeover of state’s $400 billion in healthcare is about to pass.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) stated that the American Health Care Act cuts against the “moral obligation ‘to care for those who have borne the battle.’” Transcript as Follows: “Hello, I’m Tom Carper, a retired Navy
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on May 16 to hire a consultant to develop a plan for how to deal with the loss of $7.6 billion a year if Obamacare is repealed.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Maya Wiley, Professor of Urban Policy & Management at the New School’s Milano School of International Affairs, the New School’s Senior Vice President for Social Justice, and the Chair of New York City’s
Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) talked about his vote in favor of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Friday’s Breitbart News D
On Monday’s broadcast of “CBS This Morning,” Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) argued that repealing Medicaid expansion “would devastate people in my state.” Kasich was asked about what impact repealing Medicaid expansion would have. He answered, “That would devastate people in
With talk of another Republican healthcare plan on the horizon, Planned Parenthood is eager to ensure birth control remains free for women while the group itself can be reimbursed – for the contraception it distributes – by the federal government and insurance companies.
Immediately after the cancellation of the House vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards sent out a fundraising email to her supporters, crediting them with stopping the vote on the bill.
The Republican leadership’s plan to roll back Medicaid puts families with disabilities in a dire situation.
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) was a guest on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, offering his view of the House Republican Obamacare replacement bill.
Policy and medical experts are observing that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s “Obamacare 2.0” continues the GOP down the same path of merely “tinkering” with a massive entitlement that Democrats originally created.
President Donald Trump unveiled his five guiding principles for repealing and replacing Obamacare during his address to Congress.
Trump’s Obamacare replacement principles: preexisting conditions, Health Savings Accounts, Medicaid flexibility, tort reform, and insurance across state lines.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) says she will not vote with fellow Republicans for an Obamacare repeal bill that defunds Planned Parenthood.
Medicaid is gently tugging tens of thousands of healthy Americans to their early deaths each year, according to analysts who are trying to explain the massive and unprecedented spike in deaths among middle-aged Americans in post-industrial America.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas can’t cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015 that launched Republican efforts across the U.S. to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says a bill that would have prohibited his state from entering into contracts with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers “would harm tens of thousands of Virginians,” reports ABC7.
Many of President Donald Trump’s critics are grappling with the reality the U.S. government will actually build the much-ballyhooed border wall Trump had pledged to repeatedly during his campaign. However, those critics are still arguing the money put toward the
A federal judge issued an order on Thursday temporarily blocking the State of Texas from terminating Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding. Planned Parenthood sued the State in an effort to regain access to the funds stripped by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Republicans plan to use reconciliation as a procedural tool that permits legislation pertaining to fiscal policy to pass with a simple majority and without filibuster by Democrats in the Senate.
Lawyers for Planned Parenthood filed an application for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction late Friday night asking the judge in the litigation over Medicaid cuts to prevent Texas from defunding Medicaid to the abortion provider. Officials in Texas took action after gruesome videos filmed at various Planned Parenthood facilities, including the mega-abortion facility in Houston, Texas were released.
The State of Texas gave Planned Parenthood the boot on Tuesday saying it would no longer allow it to participate in the Medicaid program in the Lone Star State. The agency supervising the program ripped the abortion provider for its stated violations of state and federal law and ethics, including deviating from acceptable medical standards and procedures to procure research samples, and stated “a willingness to charge more than the costs incurred for procuring fetal tissue.”
The State of Texas gave Planned Parenthood final notice on Tuesday that it would no longer allow it to participate in the Medicaid program in the Lone Star State. The letter from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) said it was “not qualified to provide medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.”
