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Alfredo Ortiz writes in the Washington Examiner about a liberal funded organization called the Small Business Majority which is advocating against  innovations such as association health plans as an alternative to high cost Obamacare.

Conservatives are understandably frustrated by the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law, under protest, on Friday. But the omnibus is not a disaster. In fact, Republicans scored many important wins.

The House will not include an Obamacare bailout package in their must-pass omnibus spending bill. 

Conservatives balked at a potential Obamacare bailout that moderate Republicans senators wish to include in the omnibus spending bill.

A poll conducted by American Action Forum (AAF) released last Friday revealed that a majority of American voters oppose a single-payer healthcare system.

Sen. Barrasso introduced a bill to codify President Trump’s recent executive order offering Americans more affordable health plans compared to Obamacare.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) sent a letter on Thursday to the House Appropriations Committee demanding that Congress immediately repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate.

A new poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation reveals that nearly four in five Republicans oppose Obamacare.

A coalition of 20 states sued the federal government on Monday, arguing that Obamacare violates the Constitution after Republicans repealed the law’s individual mandate.

Democrats are edging closer to adopting single-payer healthcare as the Center for American Progress (CAP) unveiled their “Medicare Extra for All” healthcare scheme.

President Trump, so often maligned as thin-skinned and divisive, is teaching us how to talk to those with whom we disagree. We may, against the odds, begin to solve some of our problems.

President Trump declared at CPAC on Friday morning, “Piece by piece by piece, Obamacare is being wiped out!”

The Trump administration launched a new rule on Tuesday that will expand short-term health insurance plans, offering Americans more affordable health care options compared to Obamacare.

House Speaker Ryan said that he “couldn’t be happier” that Mitt Romney will run for the U.S. Senate seat.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) blamed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Fox Business on Tuesday for tanking Obamacare repeal.

House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) floated repealing Obamacare’s employer mandate on Tuesday.

The Donald Trump White House budget proposal released on Monday called for using the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare block grant bill to repeal Obamacare.

Mitch McConnell gave Chuck Schumer a gift in the form of not writing in reconciliation instructions to allow for Obamacare repeal in 2018.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee released a report in mid-January that received surprisingly little media attention despite its provocative assertion that Obamacare, and particularly its enormous expansion of Medicaid, is a driving force behind the opioid epidemic.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News that giving up Obamacare repeal “could be the biggest mistake we could make in 2018.”

During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump claimed that when repealing the Obamacare individual mandate, “We eliminated an especially cruel tax that fell mostly on Americans making less than $50,000 a year .”

A story by Southern California Public Radio station KPCC last week appeared to admit that President Donald Trump’s $1.5 billion tax reform is best for middle and lower income households.

Sen. Perdue questioned the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) political bias during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Democrats promise more of other people’s money as the answer to health care costs, and they are winning in Oregon and elsewhere. Republicans, so far, promise nothing.

President Donald Trump has shifted California politics even further to the left than it already was. That’s the view of San Francisco Chronicle senior political writer Joe Garofoli.

The average family of three will see their Obamacare premium increase by close to $800 in 2018. That will swallow about half of the average $1,600 tax cut middle-class families expect to receive from Republicans’ new tax reform.

Forty-four percent of voters believe that getting rid of any part of Obamacare is a good start to repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, faced with a slim 51-vote majority in the upper chamber of Congress, is reportedly mulling forgoing a budget altogether in 2018, a new report from Politico suggests.

Unless Republicans can find a way to address the health insurance crisis, they will lose Congress, and deservedly so.

Medical manufacturers asked President Donald Trump to repeal Obamacare’s device tax now that the law will take effect in 2018. Estimates suggest that the tax’s repeal could create another 53,000 jobs.

For all the fact-checking, the truth that matters to voters is whether their leaders keep faith with the electorate. By that measure, Trump is setting the example — so far.

After Republicans repealed Obamacare’s individual mandate through the tax bill, many wonder whether Republicans can repeal Obamacare in 2018.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he continues to work with Vice President Mike Pence and the White House on a revived Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill.

California’s Democrat-controlled legislature is considering a state version of Obamacare’s individual mandate to replace the one killed by President Trump’s new tax reform bill.

Wednesday during a cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump discussed the Republican’s tax bill and said the repeal of individual mandate in the bill meant Obamacare has “essentially” been repealed. Trump said, “The individual mandate is being repealed. When the individual mandate is

President Donald Trump did not appear pleased by media coverage of the passage of the monumental Republican tax cut bill.