Monday on “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” while discussing the Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said the “forgotten men and women” would continue to be ignored in both the House and Senate bills. Johnson said,
Nearly 100 protesters gathered outside a town hall for Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Saturday, chanting “let us in.”
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 CBS’s “Face the Nation,” while discussing the Republican health care bill, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R.-LA) said he was “undecided” on whether or not he could vote for it. Cassidy added, “There are things in this bill which adversely
In an appearance Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discussed the Republican health care bill and said that its passage would cause “thousands of people will die.” Sanders said, “What the Republican proposal does is throw 23
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” while discussing the Republican health care bill Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said there was “no way” the U.S. Senate should take it up for a vote next week. Johnson said, “I would like to delay
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing the Republican health care bill, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he would vote for a partial repeal of Obamacare, but the current bill was “not anywhere close to repeal.” Paul said, “I’ve been
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.
Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Mark Levin declared that the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010 was here to stay and blamed Senate Republican efforts on
Democrats have settled on a grisly theme in their attacks on the Republicans’ new legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare: death.
The Senate healthcare bill, known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), offers more generous tax credits, a slower rollback of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion than the House legislation, and eliminates most of Obamacare’s taxes.
Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company,” conservative columnist Ann Coulter said the Senate Republicans’ health care bill was a “total disaster” because it is “Obamacare-lite.” Coulter called for a “one-sentence law saying there shall be a free market
Aides to under-fire Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are reportedly sending out suggested tweets to support her. They have created the hashtag #StandWithNancy — suggesting that Pelosi is concerned about a leadership challenge in the wake of the devastating defeat in Georgia this week.
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.”
Research Assistant for Domestic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, Jean Morrow, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday regarding the newly released Senate Healthcare Reform Bill.
FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon condemned the Senate healthcare bill, saying, “Unfortunately, the Senate bill is an amendment to Obamacare, not a repeal of it.”
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he thinks the Senate healthcare bill “looks too much like Obamacare.”
Four Republican lawmakers issued a statement on Thursday saying they are “not ready” to vote for the Senate legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.
Former President Barack Obama blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) healthcare bill on Thursday, saying “it’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in America.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — White House Principle Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters in the Thursday afternoon briefing that President Donald Trump “wants to bring the stakeholders to the table,” for conversations over the newly released Senate Republican Leadership’s healthcare bill before addressing specific items contained within it.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) accused Senate Republicans of using “blood money” to give wealthy Americans tax cuts after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the draft of the Senate’s healthcare bill on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, dozens of protesters staged a “die-in” – blocking the hallway in front of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office – to protest against the Republican Party’s new healthcare reform bill, the American Healthcare Act (AHCA).
Thursday shortly after Senate Republicans released their version of health care legislation, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who has been skeptical of Republican efforts, went told MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt it appeared that the bill would keep Obamacare instead of repealing it.
Stanley Greenberg, former President Bill Clinton’s top pollster, recently went to Macomb County, Michigan—where Trump defeated Clinton by 12 percentage points—to interview white working-class voters who supported President Barack Obama before voting for Trump in 2016. These “Reagan Democrats” represent the heart and soul of Trump’s coalition, and what stood out was how much voters there hated Ryan and McConnell and worried that Trump would align with establishment Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the draft for their healthcare reform bill.
Language in the Senate GOP healthcare bill that pertains to defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood for one year is expected to be in the draft bill, but may be removed before a final vote on the legislation, reports The Hill.
Anthem announced on Wednesday that it will reduce its individual insurance plans in Wisconsin and Indiana, citing its inability to cope with the cost of sicker Americans that sign up for health insurance on the Obamacare market.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he will release a draft of the Senate health care bill on Thursday.
This week on the podcast, “Pod Save America,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) said Democrats have a “damn good chance” to stop the GOP’s health care bill. Schumer said, “The only way you can get on a bill is
Here are five takeaways from the two special elections on Tuesday: The victory of Republican Karen Handel over Democrat Jon Ossoff in the sixth district of Georgia, and also, the much-less-heralded victory of Republican Ralph Norman in the fifth district of South Carolina.
Now that Karen Handel has won — and won decisively, stunning the pollsters and pundits once again — the road is wide open for Trump’s legislative agenda.
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) scolded the Republican leadership, revealing that despite serving as a member of the Senate health working group he has not seen the body’s ObamaCare replacement bill yet.
Medica will remain the last Iowa Obamacare exchange insurer, although it will sell its health plans at much higher premiums.
Senate Republicans continue to draft a health care bill. Here are a few key planks of the evolving legislation.
The FBI conducted raids last week on Sovereign Health behavioral health treatment centers in California and the San Clemente home of its CEO Dr. Tonmoy Sharma, whose U.K. medical license was revoked for serious professional misconduct. Sovereign Health facilities in
The conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC) drafted a letter to send to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) demanding that the Senate adopt the House’s more conservative health care reforms.
The Washington Post dealt a blow to a liberal pipe dream Sunday when the outlet’s editorial board highlighted the problems with single-payer health care — arguing that it would be “astonishingly” expensive unless doctors are paid less and Americans are prepared to “accept different standards of access and comfort.”
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said the “epically unpopular,” Republican health care bill is politically “ruinous.” Brooks said, “This health care bill is not just unpopular it’s epically unpopular. It’s like 17% among
Several health insurers will raise premiums by roughly 20 percent on plans sold through Obamacare exchanges.
