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REUTERS/Joshua Roberts The widespread opposition to the Republican Party’s American Health Care Act appeared to reach a tipping point on Thursday, with a delayed vote and policy huddles that stretched into the night on Capitol Hill. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s efforts achieve a consensus on an alternative to the Affordable Care Act has […]
AP Photo/John Minchillo WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP’s long-promised legislation to repeal and replace “Obamacare” stood on the brink just hours before Republican leaders planned to put it on the House floor for a showdown vote. Short of support, GOP leaders looked to President Donald Trump to close the deal with a crucial bloc of […]
Thomson Reuters The Congressional Budget Office announced Monday that the American Health Care Act, the GOP leadership’s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, would lead to as many as 24 million more people to be uninsured by over the next decade. And what could be to blame is a major provision in the […]
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst President Donald Trump said Friday he is “100% behind” the GOP’s healthcare bill, asserting that the media has not reported fairly on the bill or its support among Republican lawmakers. Trump’s comments came after a meeting with members of the Republican Study Committee, a caucus made up of about 170 more conservative lawmakers. Trump said […]
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The White House ran an internal examination of the potential impacts of the American Health Care Act and found that the number of Americans who would be uninsured within 10 years could actually be closer to 26 million, not the 24 million projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Politico viewed a document outlining the White […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The House Republican leadership’s American Health Care Act, which would overhaul large parts of the US healthcare system, was introduced this week after years of debate within the GOP. But it still has a ways to go to become law. The bill will face some tough pushback from not only Democrats, but conservatives within […]
Screenshot via Twitter/Fox News Rand Paul had some terse words for the Republican Party’s health care bill on Thursday night. The Kentucky senator called the American Health Care Act (AHCA), “Obamacare Lite,” and said the legislation was “dead on arrival.” Paul’s comments echo statements he and some conservative Republicans made on Wednesday in opposition to […]
The GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill has an identity crisis. It repeals the individual mandate and replaces it with a worse mandate. It preserves the Medicaid expansion just long enough to anger Republicans, but not enough to please Democrats. It replaces Obamacare’s subsidies with tax credits that liberals consider impoverishing and conservatives consider unacceptable. In the […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images House Republicans unveiled their Affordable Care Act (ACA) replacement plan on Monday — called the American Healthcare Act (AHCA). People on social media were quick to compare the two plans in a series of illustrative photos. As Business Insider’s Bob Bryan reported earlier Monday, the AHCA would do away with Obamacare’s individual […]
Youtube/NRF A parody commercial mocking House Republicans’ proposed tax on imports will run this weekend during “Saturday Night Live.” The commercial was produced by the National Retail Federation, a retail trade organization, as part of a campaign to rally opposition to the provision, which would impose a tariff on imports. Retailers would be hit hard by the tax: […]
