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American health insurance giant Anthem announced on Monday that it will exit the Obamacare exchange in Nevada and will stop offering plans in roughly half of Georgia’s counties next year.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) claimed during a recent town hall that she “respects” President Trump’s voters, despite repeated attempts to stymie his agenda.

Covered California announced this week that its 2018 rates will increase about eight times faster than the rate of inflation, as the Obamacare law and the state’s liberal legislature continue to destroy private insurance in California.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) revealed at a recent Missouri town hall that she could support a single-payer health care system. A recent Urban Institute study suggests that a single-payer health care system could cost $32 trillion over the next ten years.

Wednesday on “The Mike Broomhead Show,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he voted against the Republican’s “skinny” Obamacare repeal bill last week because people in his home state would “get screwed.” McCain said, “I wanted us to have a full

California and New York will lead 16 states, including D.C., into a lawsuit to preserve subsidies to health insurance companies on the Obamacare exchanges, after a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday.

Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said President Donald Trump threats to stop making the cost-sharing payments of the Affordable Care Act were “petty” and “childish and un-presidential.” Partial transcript as follows:

Jackie doesn’t pull any punches in this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, going after President Donald Trump for failing to secure a deal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Republicans have long been united in opposition to Obamacare, but opposition is a sentiment—it’s not a strategy. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that Republicans were never together—were never operating as a team—to pursue an effective anti-Obamacare vision. Most glaringly, the GOP was long on “repeal” and short on “replace,” even as the country clearly expected both repeal and replace.

President Trump is taking a more populist approach to health care in the wake of congressional Republicans’ inability to repeal-and-replace Obamacare — putting both insurance companies and Congress on notice for being exempt from the unpopular law.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) revealed that he spoke with President Donald Trump on Monday and told the president that he can take executive action to allow organizations to offer more affordable group health insurance plans.

President Donald Trump is threatening to cancel $7 billion in reimbursements to insurers. Even if the president decides to keep the subsidies, they may disappear anyway — because of an ongoing court challenge.

In the early hours of Friday morning, Senate Democrats could be seen cheering and taking selfies throughout the Capitol complex, celebrating the fact that millions of Americans would continue shouldering the burden of skyrocketing premiums, limited choices, and unaffordable costs and deductibles.

With Obamacare repeal infamously shut down by Sen. John McCain, President Donald Trump can still reform Medicaid without Congress through state waivers.

Sen. John McCain’s war hero past and his recent illness should not stop people from pointing out that the politician is “making a Schmuck out of himself,” contended Jackie Mason during a radio interview broadcast last night.

It has been reported that 1,332 counties in America will only have one health insurer on the Obamacare exchanges, according to a new study from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the state of the GOP and its prospects for the 2018 midterm election.

President Donald Trump is again urging the Senate to eliminate the filibuster rule for ordinary legislation, so that it can pass key parts of his legislative agenda currently being held hostage by the Democrats.

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the failed effort to repeal and replace Obamacare in the Senate meant the “American people have spoken” in support of the Affordable Care Act. Partial

The past two weeks have been difficult ones for supporters of President Donald Trump, as he has made a series of unforced errors and watched Congress fail to repeal and replace Obamacare.

FreedomWorks Vice President Jason Pye delivered “FreedomFraud” awards to the six senators who flip-flopped in favor of Obamacare. Pye told Breitbart News that, “Some Republicans like Obamacare.”

The Republican Party is already behaving as if it is no longer a governing party, and merely awaits the verdict of the voters in 2018 to seal its fate.

Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars took to social media to celebrate and express their gratitude for the Republican senators who voted Friday morning against the so-called “skinny repeal” of Obamacare.

Early Friday morning, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reacted to his party’s inability to pass the so-called “skinny” repeal of Obamacare after his colleague Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) unexpectedly sided with the Democratic leadership to oppose that effort. Cruz told reporters that

Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, suggested it might be time for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to step down from his leadership position if he is unable to repeal Obamacare.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said his vote Friday against “skinny repeal” of Obamacare was a vote for bipartisanship. In fact, it was the opposite, rewarding Democrats for passing Obamacare without working with Republicans in the first place.

President Donald Trump signaled disappointment that the Senate failed to pass an Obamacare repeal, after hours of failed Republican attempts to keep their promise to the American people.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Health Care Freedom Act, known as the “skinny repeal” bill, failed to pass through the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the Obamacare “skinny repeal” bill, known as the Health Care Freedom Act. Republicans hope that this bare-bones legislation can pass through the Senate. The Health Care Freedom Act will repeal the individual and employer mandate,

Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled Thursday night that he will work with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on a compromise healthcare bill in a conference committee between the two chambers of Congress.

Senate Republicans might try to pass a bare-bones repeal of Obamacare that would only cut the basic tenets of the law.

President Donald Trump has a golden opportunity to introduce his own health care policy, now that both moderate and conservative Republicans have failed to push their own policies through, and Obamacare continues to collapse.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC) joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday to discuss President Trump’s reversal of an Obama-era policy by banning transgender people from military service, the Obamacare repeal effort, and other news.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told Breitbart News Daily on Thursday that he was troubled by Wednesday’s Obamacare vote, in which six senators who supported repeal under President Barack Obama changed their minds and voted to preserve the program.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday to discuss President Trump’s reversal of an Obama era policy by banning transgender people from Military service, the Obamacare repeal effort, and other news.

Six establishment Senate Republicans flip-flopped on their pledge to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday. Senate Republicans shot down Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) clean Obamacare repeal bill. Paul’s bill, the “Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017,” failed 45-55. Seven moderate Republicans voted