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Analysts at Morgan Stanley say hospitals are already feeling the repercussions of uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act. According to their analysis, there is a correlation between the percentage of uninsured Americans and bad debt at hospitals. In Q3 2017, the percentage of uninsured Americans hit its highest rate since 2014. In a note […]
AP For months, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has been a staunch critic of Senate Republicans’ replacement for the Affordable Care Act, publicly blasting it as “Obamacare-lite” because it leaves many of the law’s taxes and some of its regulations in place and allocates billions of dollars for insurance market stabilization that he derides as a “bailout.” Paul has blocked previous iterations […]
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The Senate Republican healthcare bill is set to be released on Thursday, and we’re already starting to get some indications of what it will look like. A discussion draft of the bill was circulating among lobbyists and some congressional staffers on Wednesday, and several reports have begun to detail the contours of the bill. The bill mirrors […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images Three Republican governors — John Kasich of Ohio, Brian Sandoval of Nevada, and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts — signed onto a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday rejecting the current iteration of the GOP healthcare bill. In the letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, three Republican […]
REUTERS/Carlos Barria The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday released an updated analysis of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP healthcare bill, that economists and advocates said contained some alarming takeaways for the future of the fight against the opioid crisis. While the nonpartisan CBO projected that 23 million more Americans would be uninsured […]
Shutterstock Pregnancy, sexual assault and domestic violence could be considered “pre-existing conditions” that make it hard to keep insurance coverage under the Republican health care bill, according to a number of news articles and social media posts. The bill doesn’t specifically refer to any of these things, and headlines suggesting that it does are misleading. […]
NBC/Saturday Night Live This week’s “Saturday Night Live” took shots at the American Health Care Act, reports that President Donald Trump used to pretend to be his own spokesperson, and the recent news that “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged. The show’s cold open featured a skit starring comedians Kate McKinnon as Brzezinski […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images There’s principled opposition, and then there’s political gamesmanship, and today’s Democratic Party has a remarkable knack for choosing the wrong one at the wrong time. In the moments after it became clear that House Republicans had passed the Trump-endorsed American Health Care Act, a handful of legislators began to sing. The voices […]
Thursday’s the day. The House is finally set to vote on the American Health Care Act, the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, after nearly two months of stalled attempts at passage. The House Rules Committee cleared the AHCA late Wednesday after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters that the bill would be brought to the floor, setting up […]
Zach Gibson/Getty Images The White House is considering reviving the American Health Care Act — again — according to a CNN report Wednesday. Sources close to the process told CNN’s Jim Acosta and Elizabeth Landers that the Trump administration has attempted to make progress on the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare before Trump’s 100th day in office, […]
