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.
On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.
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.
Fox News has spent years demonizing Obamacare, but President Obama is finally getting his revenge as a new poll shows support for Obamacare has grown by 11 points in the last year.
A new USA Today/Suffolk University Poll has found that just 12% of Americans support any of the Republican health care bills proving that Trumpcare has turned into a raging inferno that is burning down the Republican Party. USA Today has the data on their poll, “Just 12% of Americans support the Senate Republican health care…
“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.”
“The longer that it’s out there the more it’s going to stink. People are going to figure out what they’re trying to do to the country.”
First, Trump said how important it is to pass the health care bill, and then he immediately said it’s “okay” if it fails.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a reality check to Trump by telling the President that he is not going to be able to let the ACA implode. Instead, if the Senate health care bill fails, Democrats will enter negotiations to save the health insurance market and Obamacare will grow stronger. Politico reported, “President Donald…
The legislation won’t just hurt millions of Americans who are covered under Medicaid or through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges.
The president is desperately trying to distract from his massively unpopular health care plan, but the American people likely won’t buy it. The president and Republicans now own health care.
“Seventy-five million Americans all have the same health insurance, and the big health bill that the Republicans unveiled in the Senate today takes a meat ax to that health insurer.”
The spontaneous demonstrations by pro-ACA activists shows how politically toxic this issue has become for Republicans as they prepare to dismantle Obamacare.
With a slim margin for error and Republicans already backing away, Trumpcare may be on its deathbed before a single vote is cast in the U.S. Senate.
U.S. senators expressed concern on Wednesday about a plan to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, fearing a rush to consider the major legislation as Republican leaders prepare to unveil it.
“We have not had one hearing, not one open discussion. And I should think that every Republican should be embarrassed by this, and I know that many of them are embarrassed by it.”
Because of uncertainty caused by Trump and Republicans, at least one swing state will see Obamacare health care premiums spike by more than 40 percent.
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.
Republicans may be forced to remove a portion of their legislation that would essentially doom the bill – again.
Republicans say they are just two months away from getting enough votes to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Senate Republicans are warning that the odds are high that Trumpcare is going to fail in the Senate, which is going to leave Republicans begging to do a deal with Democrats on health care.
While Republicans are banking on their repeal efforts to excite the base of their party, it’s becoming clear that they are in over their heads.
Maddow interviewed a woman with a brain tumor who was promised by her GOP congressman that he would oppose Trumpcare. Today, he voted for it.
“I would predict that in less than seven years, we’ll be in a single-payer system. That’s the great irony of this.”
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.
Americans are quickly mobilizing to defeat vulnerable GOP candidates who voted in favor the disastrous legislation.
Clinton encouraged Americans to support Democratic candidates in swing districts represented by Republicans who voted for Trumpcare.
Members of Congress who put their name on this legislation should save themselves the time and not even launch a re-election campaign.
“Trump only wants ‘win.’ He does not know or care what’s in bill or what impact it will have on millions.”
Donald Trump’s desperate bid to get any legislative accomplishment before his first 100 days are up was dealt a crushing blow as his new attempt at an Obamacare repeal bill is already being opposed by 21 House Republicans.
The current Republican position is that we destroy our water and air and then make up for it by denying Americans insurance to pay for the resultant medical issues.
“We’ve got to join the rest of the world and guarantee health care to all of our people as a right.”
Angry constituents, both Democrats and Republicans, hammered Rep. Mike Coffman for agreeing to try to repeal Obamacare and supporting the wildly unpopular “Trumpcare” replacement.
Not only is the latest version of Trumpcare already doomed to fail, but it’s guaranteed to drag Republicans down with it.
Trump is publicly rooting for the failure of a law that has helped millions of Americans.
“The Trump approach to health care was never going to be repeal and replace,” Maher said. “It was always bait and switch.”
After Trump was handed an epic loss on health care, he tried to spin himself as never having been concerned about immediately repealing and replacing Obamacare, when in reality, Friday’s defeat was crushing for Trump because he has been obsessed with repealing Obamacare for years.
Trump can’t even bring Republicans together to do something they have promised to do for the past seven years.
Trumpcare will cost more than initial estimates – and none of the cost increases will go toward covering the 24 million Americans that will lose health insurance under the plan.
If Trump wants to keep calling the Affordable Care Act a “disaster,†he probably shouldn’t do it in a state that has benefited so much from the law.
Note to Trump: The election was more than four months ago.
While Kentucky is a conservative state that Trump carried by nearly 30 percentage points last fall, it has in many ways become ground zero for the fight over protecting the Affordable Care Act.
When pressed during an interview on ABC’s This Week, Trump HHS Secretary Tom Price admitted that Obamacare (ACA) helps people, which is the opposite of the Republican argument that Obamacare is a collapsing disaster.
The recent uprisings at Republican town halls are demonstrating the power of the people to withstand and turn back the assault on democracy
With even the most extreme conservatives opposing this plan, Republicans are miles away from repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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.
Paul Krugman warns that we should not “presume that Ryan and company have any idea what they’re doing.”
“If the American people had to decide between continuing with Obamacare the way it is … or going back to the way we were, I’d be for going back the way we were.”
During MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Joy Reid got into a philosophical argument with conservative columnist John Podhertaz and destroyed the conservative argument that health care should be a choice with a blast of reality.
Opposition is opposition and, reasons aside, it’s good news that so many on both sides of the political spectrum are fighting against the latest GOP attack on the Affordable Care Act.
Paul Krugman described the GOP’s Obamacare replacement as, “It’s not Obamacare 2.0. It’s Obamacare 0.5 – a half-assed attempt to preserve ACA successes without spending nearly enough money”
Republicans claim to be doing away with the individual mandate. But their newly released plan would slap uninsured Americans with even bigger penalties.
Republicans in Congress can’t agree on how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, despite having seven years to figure it out.
“Gutting the ACA funding would only further add to our already egregious levels of economic inequality”
“Some of us, who were sitting on the Health Education Committee who went to meeting after meeting after meeting – yeah, we got a clue.”
“I think that when you get into an airplane and you look at the cockpit and you see the pilot saying ‘boy, look at all these gauges this is really complicated,’ you know you have a problem.”
On Friday, after Mike Pence called Obamacare “America’s nightmare”, support for Obamacare reached its highest point since shortly after it was passed in 2010. Support is at 48%, which is a 5 point increase since December.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the American people that they should be applauding President Trump for taking away their health care and replacing it with nothing.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has announced that Senate Democrats will be holding 100 rallies across the country to fight the Republican plan to take health care away from 20 million Americans.
With all due disrespect to the president, the people flooding these town halls in GOP districts are angry. There is nothing “so-called†about it.
All the terrible things Trump claims are true about the Affordable Care Act would become a reality under his new proposal.
The American people are sick of the Republican Party’s lies on Obamacare.
Price as head of HHS will make the GOP attempt to take health insurance from millions of Americans much easier.
The political implications of 35% of Americans not knowing that Obamacare and the ACA are the same things will be a complete disaster for Republicans after people realize that Trump has demolished their health insurance.
Cruz spoke for 21 hours on the Senate floor in 2013, all so he could take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Republicans admitted during their retreat there will be no single plan or bill to replace Obamacare. Instead, they are going to replace the law bit by bit using a budgetary process, regulatory actions, executive orders, and small pieces of legislation that could take through the Summer of 2017 or longer.
“What is the best way to decimate a community? Deny its people access to healthcare.†“What is the best way to decimate a community? Shut down its largest employer.†These questions were asked and answered by Tim Egan, CEO of Chicago’s Roseland Community Hospital, last Sunday, January 15, as he opened his comments at a…
Congressional Republicans are avoiding open public meetings with constituents because they are fearful of the growing backlash towards repealing Obamacare.
President-elect Trump isn’t going to be a team player with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. Trump has made a series of vague promises about how he has his own Obamacare replacement plan that sounds more like Bernie Sanders than the GOP. By promising something Republicans have no intention of passing, Trump just screwed over his own party.
Illness is indiscriminate and every person must be afforded the care they need when they need it.
“I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren’t for him.”
It is time for the party of life to live up to their convictions and stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and continue to fund Planned Parenthood.
“I won’t vote for a terrible budget just to repeal Obamacare,” Paul said on the Senate floor.
Trump voters, in particular, would be in a world of trouble if the man they supported follows through.
While warning that a repeal of the ACA would be devastating for small business owners, a small business coalition is urging Republicans not to repeal Obamacare.
The Republican strategy on the health care law boils down to this: Repeal it first and figure out what to replace it with later.
“They broke it, they own it. All the problems in the health care system that they blamed on Obamacare will now be in their laps.”
President Obama is going to get the better of Republicans one final time, as the GOP has been forced to break their promise to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare because the law is too complicated and a prompt gutting of the law would result in an immense public backlash.
It turns out that Republicans weren’t one hundred percent honest with the voters about ACA repeal. Republicans can pass a bill legislation repealing the law in 2017, but Obamacare will remain, and those who sign up will keep their insurance until at least 2018.
Trump promised his base he wouldn’t even think about or entertain any proposal to touch Medicare; now he vows “modernization” with a Paul Ryan coupon.
Trump says he will keep the pre-existing conditions, calling it ‘one of the strongest assets,’ as well as children living with their parents
Instead of a White House firewall to stop the Koch GOP Congress’ disasters, the Kochs and evangelicals have a fascist with a rubber stamp.
With a single statement, Bill Clinton killed the latest Republican attempt to divide Democrats over Obamacare dead.
CNN twisted a Bill Clinton quote about the health care system and turned into an attack on Obamacare to help Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“GOP Congress spends a year and a half investigating Clinton emails, but refuses to investigate whether Russia is hacking our election? WTF?”
Republicans finally revealed their “replacement” health care “reform†that literally robs healthcare from tens-of-millions of Americans.
The same working white voters that support Trump are also being targeted by the Republican nominee for elimination if he wins the White House.
It is possible Paul Ryan is not an avid nativist, but he is a Republican and the fact that he wants a racist to advance his conservative agenda exposes him as bad of a human being as Donald Trump.
Despite the protests of many medical organizations, Republicans ignore the health cost to Americans in favor of corporate profits
2015 saw “the lowest number of bankruptcy filings for any 12-month period since 2007, and the fifth consecutive calendar year that filings have fallen significantly”
It has been claimed Sanders is unelectable and unrealistic, but his years as senator suggest his ability to hold onto his ideals while he works the daily grind of the political process
Krugman points out that with GOP control the House, it may take many years before Republicans agree to provide more funding for a healthcare system
The reality is that when Democrats did have majorities in both houses of Congress they were barely able to pass health-care insurance reform
Paul Krugman has entered the healthcare reform fray on behalf of Hillary Clinton, a fact which will no doubt disappoint many progressives.
Paul Ryan insists he is going to ‘fix’ things, but since Obama has already done that, he can only mean he’s going to destroy them
The Republican-run House is up to its same old tricks: rather than helping Americans, attacking their access to healthcare
New Year is coming with mixed tidings, the good with the bad, with genuine evil in its wake, a Republican wrecking ball aimed right at us
The Obama administration announced today that ACA enrollment has increased by 1.8 million over last year and that enrollment has nearly doubled with young people compared to the same time in 2014.
.The revised third quarter economic data contained some good news for President Obama and Democrats as thanks to Obamacare; healthcare costs have risen at their slowest rate since 1961.
