Obamacare - Page 17

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) revealed in an op-ed on Tuesday that she supports a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate.

Last week, the US House of Representatives passed the most sweeping tax reform plan we have seen in decades. As with everything in politics, the policy nuts and bolts were a series of trade-offs.

Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker has signed a bill into law that, save for churches, forces employers in the state – regardless of their religious or moral convictions – to provide free birth control to workers.

Top Trump administration officials indicated that while the president still backs repealing the Obamacare individual mandate, the administration would accept a tax reform package that left the mandate in place.

When is a tax cut considered a tax hike? When you work for Congress’s official tax scorekeepers apparently.

The Obamacare mandate is a brutal tax that increases the deficit and almost exclusively targets the working and middle class. It must be repealed.

Thursday, November 16 marked 300 days since President Donald Trump took office on January 20. And the Trump administration seems, at last, to have found a rhythm.

Yes, the Obamacare issue is ba-a-ack. Congressional Republicans could, in fact, be voting on the fate of the program — formally known as the Affordable Care Act — within days.

Raising the child tax credit to $2,000 and eliminating the individual mandate makes this a tax bill populist conservatives can support.

Rand Paul Tuesday took up President Donald Trump’s challenge to Republicans to include the repeal of the Obamacare individual-mandate in their tax overhaul legislation.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a motion Thursday to put a stop to President Donald Trump’s decision to protect employers of faith and with moral convictions from the Obama-era contraceptive mandate.

Republicans can turn their political prospects around in time if they deliver on at least some of their promises, allow insurgent campaigns to flourish, and warn voters about “Speaker” Nancy Pelosi.

A new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report revealed that over three-quarters of new Obamacare signups are actually renewals.

One year after the fateful 2016 presidential election, the Republican establishment continues to “fall like dominoes” to populist pressure from President Donald Trump’s base that wants to enact the president’s agenda.

Just one week after the announcement the University of Notre Dame would be ending its insurance coverage of free contraceptives, the school did an about-face and informed employees and students that birth control would still be provided to them without cost.

Republicans should simplify the tax proposal, focusing on the reduction in the corporate tax rate, while repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate and ending tax benefits for employers who hire illegal aliens.

The most important result on Tuesday was Maine’s vote to expand Medicaid under Obamacare — the first time voters have directly approved that policy.

According to reports, President Donald Trump will prepare an executive order that will unravel Obamacare’s individual mandate.

Rep. Buddy Carter said hiring private contractors to confirm eligibility for Medicaid and other entitlement programs can “cut costs through eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.”

President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this month to end federal subsidies to insurance companies on the Obamacare exchanges will, ironically, allow many more individuals to qualify for free health insurance.

Joshua Kushner penned an op-ed, published Friday, critical of the Trump administration’s approach to Obamacare.

A new study from Avalere Health reveals that Obamacare exchange “silver” plans will rise by an average of 34 percent in 2018, another startling statistic detailing Obamacare’s death spiral.

President Trump on Tuesday told Republicans to focus on tax reform over recent efforts to stabilize Obamacare.

Doubts abound about whether the GOP will manage to come together on tax reform, something they could not do with Obamacare.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra asked the U.S. Court of Appeals Court in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to grant an emergency restraining order to force the Trump administration to pay $600 million a month in Obamacare insurance subsidies that have previously been declared illegal.

Since announcing my campaign to defeat Bob Casey for the United States Senate six months ago, I have travelled throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, speaking with thousands of the people who sent shock waves through the political world last year by electing Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump, conservatives, and even Speaker Paul Ryan panned Sen. Lamar Alexander’s (R-TN) bipartisan Obamacare bailout deal with Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton praised the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) for the “excellent care” she received after breaking her toe – just two days before it was revealed that only ONE of the socialised medicine’s hospitals across the country had hit key treatment targets.

While HHS’s role in Obamacare is at the center of public debate, the agency’s new strategic plan takes a pro-life stance.

President Donald Trump revealed that health insurance companies were scrambling to respond to his decision to end subsidies for Obamacare.

“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.

President Donald Trump ‘s decision last week to discontinue the illegal insurance subsidies known as “cost-sharing reductions” means that Covered California healthcare premiums will spike by almost 25 percent in 2018.

Turley: Unconstitutional Obamacare Subsidies Would Be Analogous to Trump Acting on Border Wall Without Congress

President Donald Trump suspended the cost-sharing reduction payments as part of a strategy to dismantle Obamacare.

Tax reform is at risk of becoming another Trump administration will-o’-wisp, a mysterious shining object forever just out of reach.

“This will cost the United States government virtually nothing and will provide people great, great health care,” Trump said.