In the midst of a devastating pandemic, fresh ideas to cover the 30 million currently uninsured Americans are more important than ever. Jim Capretta, health care expert at the American Enterprise Institute, says we can do a lot right now with some common-sense steps: “there’s literally tens of millions of people out there who are…
Recent polling indicates that an overwhelming number of Americans, close to 75%, support the protests, inspired by George Floyd’s murder, against racism and police brutality.  This approval, polls reveal, stretches across party lines and racial lines. The polls, of course, don’t reveal in any precise way the psychological dynamics at work in the American mentality…
When Democratic primary candidates were asked last Thursday about the economic policy platforms of their campaigns in light of the fact that Trump’s economy has yielded record-setting stock market performances, historically low unemployment rates, and significant GDP numbers, Andrew Yang’s answer interestingly sounded more like a medical doctor diagnosing America’s collectively failing health than an…
If this is such a fine piece of legislation, why didn’t congressional Republicans rush it to the White House today to get the president’s signature on it? Â
When a conspiracy theorist is elected President of the United States, these are the things you can expect to happen.
In the early going, it appears that Trump’s efforts to keep people from getting health insurance are failing – but it still remains to be seen what the long-term effects of his sabotage will be.Â
Republicans want you to believe they give a hoot about the opioid crisis in America, while they continue to vote for budgets that cut crucial funding.
No, Republicans who have opposed some or all of Trump’s dangerous agenda are not “fake.” But religious leaders like Falwell Jr. who support this president are.
Look, the facts are the president is not keeping his word. He signed 50 executive orders since the day he took office, which, if you do the math, is about one every five days.
Schumer told the president that Obamacare repeal is “off the table” and he should join other Republicans who are working with Democrats to improve the existing law.
Trump’s refusal to take action that would actually help people is proof of what we’ve already known about this president: He would rather play political games than improve the lives of the American people.Â
President Trump expressed a happy expected win on the GOP health care bill after Friday, only to learn after that tweet what everyone else already knew, and that is that the parliamentary rules that would have allowed Republicans to ram their horrific bill through expire on Friday.
Instead of using taxpayer dollars to enrich himself, perhaps Tom Price – and his boss – should use the funds to improve the lives of the people they are supposed to be serving.
As Price squanders U.S. taxpayer funds for his expensive private flights, he and his boss are working tirelessly to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
The new health care legislation, which Republicans are now working to ram through the Senate, gives states the option of not covering pre-existing conditions.
“[The process for the Cassidy-Graham bill] is better but it’s not what the Senate is supposed to be doing,” he said. “Is it better to be guilty of murder or train robbery?”
Like a villain in a horror movie that appears one last time to wreak havoc, Republicans are again making one last attempt to inflict pain on millions.
“We have a Medicare system right now. It is a good system. … Let’s expand that program to every man, woman, and child. It’s not a scary proposition.”
The move by top Democrats sets up a stark contrast between themselves and Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election.
The White House wants to see the plan approved by Congress, but not even GOP leadership is interested in pushing the measure through.
It probably didn’t take long for Tom Price to regret his decision to participate in the baseball tradition.
The poll released Monday showed Trump’s approval rating at the lowest level in any survey released since he took office.
Democratic Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have introduced legislation that would allow people age 55-64 to buy into Medicare. This modified public option would give an additional 41 million Americans access to Medicare.
Six months into the Trump administration, the GOP tune is changing as the president’s incompetence, corruption, and unfitness has thrown the entire Republican agenda into a dumpster and set it ablaze.
This week’s epic failure to pass any repeal and replace legislation won’t be the last effort by Donald Trump and Republicans to dismantle former President Obama’s signature achievement.
With two tweets about the Senate vote on health care, Donald Trump proved that he is totally out of it, and has no idea what is going on in the government that he is supposed to be running.
Outside of the White House and the halls of Congress, it’s clear that people of all political persuasions recognize how devastating this repeal plan would be to millions of Americans.
Every American wished Sen. McCain well when the sad news of his cancer diagnosis broke last week. When he returns to Washington on Tuesday, he should vote to return the favor.
“President Trump, I will tell you, you will get it, don’t worry about it,” Trump told the crowd aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford.
The former president reminded us of that, sometimes, we should put politics aside. In doing so, Obama made the country miss him even more than we already did.
The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can’t accept the fact that America isn’t buying what they’re selling.
“I think it’s very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. I think it’s obvious.”
The fight to stop Republicans from repealing the Affordable Care Act is far from over – and millions of Americans are still at risk of losing insurance and benefits that the current law provides.
If there is an upside for Toomey, it’s that Trump’s constant social media outbursts are distracting from the disastrous piece of legislation he’s trying to push through the Senate.
The fact that Republicans think they could pull one past the former Secretary of State on a complicated policy issue like health care shows just how lost they are.
The gap between what Trump says is in the GOP health care bill and what’s actually in it is incredibly wide, meaning Trump probably hasn’t even read the thing.
“It has now been more than 150 days of this new administration … and they have yet to pass a single substantive piece of legislation of any kind.”
This command explicitly states that we are not to endanger or harm the lives of other people in any way and also includes the imperatives to help and support people in all of life’s needs.
Republicans are trying to insulate Donald Trump from the potential failure of the health care bill in the Senate by keeping the President far away from the legislation.
The zeal among some Democrats, liberals, and progressives for the Georgia House special election were always emotional. Some are still dealing with an Election Night 2016 hangover and were desperate for a win, but the win that they should be looking for is to defeat Trump on healthcare, not a victory that would net them 1/435th of the House.
Ossoff is focusing not just on the corruption that continues to consume the White House, but the disastrous Republican policy agenda that will bury the middle class.
Trump is making a move that clearly panders to his base of voters, but it’s a move that will hurt millions of women in America and make abortion more frequent.
Under the GOP health care plan, millions of low-income children would be at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage.
A thorough and independent investigation into Trump is a top priority, but Democrats should not lose sight of issues that affect working Americans every day.
CBS’s Face The Nation held a focus group of Pennsylvania voters and the message that Trumpcare is going to take away health care for people with pre-existing conditions has already penetrated the public discussions. Republicans and Trump are screwed because many voters have already linked them with taking away health care.
It’s time to stop labeling this a health care policy and instead call it what it is: a death sentence for millions of people.
Clinton encouraged Americans to support Democratic candidates in swing districts represented by Republicans who voted for Trumpcare.
GOP Congressman Kevin McCarthy says Republicans do, in fact, have enough votes to advance the legislation.
When Paul Ryan was asked at his weekly press conference if the House would be voting on a health care bill before Trump’s first 100 days are up, the Speaker’s answer was an admission that he doesn’t have the votes to pass a health care bill.
“We’ve got to join the rest of the world and guarantee health care to all of our people as a right.”
Not only is the latest version of Trumpcare already doomed to fail, but it’s guaranteed to drag Republicans down with it.
If there was a time for the president to revive Trumpcare, now would not be it.
What do the economy, health care, terrorism, and immigration have in common? They’re all issues Trump is failing on, according to the American people.
“President Donald Trump did the best he could, but it’s not the same as when Donald Trump in the private sector was trying to market and sell first-class products.”
Trump is publicly rooting for the failure of a law that has helped millions of Americans.
After a winless two months in the White House, perhaps Trump should give Barack Obama a call. He knows a thing or two about winning.
The Speaker was in no mood to deal with the press after a day of spectacular failures for his party.
“They should abolish the Congressional Budget Office. It is corrupt. It is dishonest,” Gingrich said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders needed just 82 seconds to completely demolish Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement on Face The Nation.
One does not need to be a Nobel Prize winning economist like Paul Krugman to see the achievements of Obamacare and the deathly dangers of Trumpcare.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) accused Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and President Donald Trump of trying to take President Obama’s name off of Obamacare and call it their own.
While speaking to the nation’s governors, President Trump laid out a plan for taking away health care from 20 million Americans and then blaming Obama and the Democrats.
In their toughest attack yet, the Bernie Sanders campaign is accusing Hillary Clinton of flip-flopping on universal healthcare to hide her close ties to Wall Street.
Tea Party Republicans are on such shaky ground with their opposition to Obamacare that it would be a sin not to nudge and send them sprawling into the dirt.
Meet some of the real life victims of health care politics in the ‘conservative republic’ of America, where only the super rich can afford to get sick.
A Republican amendment in the Senate is proposing the creation of real life death panel that would put religious fanatics between patients and their health care professionals.
The brewing battle between the journalists at Fox News and Glenn Beck took a new turn today as Hill reporter Carl Cameron refuted the right wing, including FNC’s own Glenn Beck’s attack, on the so called Slaughter Solution as an unprecedented move to pass healthcare reform. Cameron said, “Deeming has been used literally for centuries.”
Last night on her MSNBC program, Rachel Maddow went after the Senate Republicans’ hypocrisy and lies against healthcare reform, but she specifically targeted Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT). Maddow characterized Hatch’s recent op-ed in The Washington Post as containing, “blatant, outright, laugh out loud falsehoods.”Hatch responded by Twittering to complain about how Maddow ran him down and he called it a badge of honor.