BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “If Senate Republicans vote to repeal Obamacare before the end of the month, they’ll be flying blind — not knowing the impact their plan will have on insurance coverage or premium costs, budget scorekeepers said Monday [9-18-17]. The Congressional Budget Office will only have a bare-bones assessment of the latest GOP bill ready before […]
Category: Healthcare
9/14/2017
BERNIE SANDERS/HEALTHCARE: “Bernie Sanders is pushing hard for a single payer healthcare plan – a curse on the U.S. & its people… I told Republicans to approve healthcare fast or this would happen. But don’t worry, I will veto because I love our country & its people.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 14, 2017 02:31pm and […]
9/13/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “Two groups of senators on Wednesday [9-13-17] released the details of diametrically opposed health plans, reflecting an enduring partisan split on health care despite calls for more bipartisanship after the failed Republican effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. A week after Republicans and Democrats held the first bipartisan hearing on ways to fix […]
9/13/2017
HEALTHCARE/MEDICARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) unveiled his long-anticipated legislation to create a national single-payer health system on Wednesday, boasting support from 15 Democratic Senate co-sponsors. The health proposal, dubbed Medicare for all, would offer the same suite of medical benefits required for some insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act and eliminate most out-of-pocket […]
9/13/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “Two Senate bills aimed at shaping the future of the Affordable Care Act are facing uncertainty, as the White House voices tepid support for an ACA repeal effort and opposition to a bipartisan bill to shore up insurance markets. Republican senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Wednesday plan […]
9/13/2017
BERNIE SANDERS/HEALTHCARE/MEDICARE: “A growing number of Democrats have endorsed a single-payer health bill to be proposed Wednesday [9-13-17] by Sen. Bernie Sanders, embracing a bigger government role in health care after years of opposing that approach. Supporters of Mr. Sanders’s bill include several Democratic senators considering a bid for the Oval Office in 2020: Cory […]
9/12/2017
BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the top Democrat on the panel announced on Tuesday [9-12-17] night that they had reached agreement on a plan to prevent the imminent exhaustion of federal funds for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The current appropriation runs out at the end of this month, and many […]
9/8/2017
HEALTHCARE: “While Bernie Sanders readies a single-payer health care bill that the GOP is itching to attack, one of his Democratic colleagues is proposing a step toward that goal that could give cover to the party’s vulnerable incumbents. Sen. Chris Murphy, a potential presidential contender, is working on legislation expected this fall that would let […]
9/8/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE: “Republicans, sorry, but I’ve been hearing about Repeal & Replace for 7 years, didn’t happen! Even worse, the Senate Filibuster Rule will… never allow the Republicans to pass even great legislation. 8 Dems control – will rarely get 60 (vs. 51) votes. It is a Repub Death Wish!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 8, 2017 […]
9/6/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “A hearing that unfolded Wednesday [9-6-17] in a Senate office building marked a first on Capitol Hill in seven years: a bipartisan discussion on ways to repair, not repeal, the Affordable Care Act. Convened by U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), chairman of the Senate health committee, the hearing was the first of four […]
9/5/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TAXES: “Industry groups are ramping up a campaign to repeal or delay two Affordable Care Act taxes that have critics in both parties, the latest effort to tackle the health-care system following the collapse of the broad Republican push to repeal the Obama-era law. The taxes, one on medical devices and another on health-insurance plans, […]
9/4/2017
BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “A deadline for insurers to file 2018 prices for health insurance sold through Affordable Care Act exchanges arrives Tuesday [9-5-17], but state regulators are still struggling to make decisions about pricing and coverage amid uncertainty in federal health policy. The upshot is confusion in what is typically an orderly, regimented regulatory process for reviewing […]
9/1/2017
BUDGET/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “If Republicans want to try again to repeal the Affordable Care Act with just a simple majority, they only have until the end of September to do it. That’s according to Sen. Bernie Sanders, the ranking member on the Senate’s budget committee. According to Sanders, the Senate parliamentarian declared Friday that the Senate’s 2017 […]
9/1/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A number of Senate Republicans are gathering behind a bipartisan push to shore up the Affordable Care Act, reflecting a growing divide between President Donald Trump and many GOP senators. Republicans brushed off a call by Mr. Trump to continue working on a repeal of the 2010 health-care law after their bill […]
8/31/2017
BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/HHS/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s administration is cutting nearly $116 million from outreach programs aimed at signing people up for the Affordable Care Act, a move that has cheered the health law’s opponents but inflamed Democrats who fear the administration is undermining it. The Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend $10 […]
8/30/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS: “On a swing through western Iowa this week, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley told constituents he is committed to working in a bipartisan way when Congress returns next month to provide storm relief, stabilize the health-care system and fund the government without drama. It is a message that has resonated with many voters as […]
8/30/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Leaders of a dozen state-run health insurance exchanges threw their support Wednesday [8-30-17] behind congressional efforts to bolster the individual insurance markets while giving states more leeway over implementing the Affordable Care Act. The state health leaders warned that premiums would continue to climb, and state budgets would suffer, if the federal government didn’t […]
8/28/2017
CRISIS/HEALTHCARE: “Doctors waded miles through Houston’s flooded roads to reach their clinics. Other medical staff camped out at their hospitals for days, catching some sleep on cots between shifts. One medical facility was forced to evacuate patients by boat. The health-care system in the nation’s fourth-largest city strained to deliver care as floodwaters thwarted cancer […]
8/24/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Health insurer CareSource will offer Affordable Care Act exchange plans in Ohio’s Paulding County, leaving no place in the U.S. currently known to be at risk of lacking marketplace offerings under the law next year. The decision by CareSource, a nonprofit that focuses largely on Medicaid, caps a triumph for state regulators around the […]
8/24/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICAL FIGURES: “The only problem I have with Mitch McConnell is that, after hearing Repeal & Replace for 7 years, he failed!That should NEVER have happened!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 24, 2017 08:42am […]
8/23/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Iowa officials filed a federal application to alter major aspects of the Affordable Care Act next year, the most ambitious so far of a growing crop of state efforts to tweak the health law with the goal of shoring up individual insurance markets. Iowa’s proposal, which state officials said they are already preparing to […]
8/22/217
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “When Congress returns to Washington after Labor Day, it will immediately confront a tough question: Can there be bipartisan agreement on fixing the country’s health care system? The Senate health committee announced Tuesday [8-22-17] that it will hold two back-to-back hearings on health care September 6 and 7. That will be the first time […]
8/20/2017
HEALTHCARE/JOBS/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Sharon Barker isn’t used to recruiting new health insurance customers in deepest summer, long before the enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act. But this year, everything is different. Despite surviving Republican efforts to repeal it, the law known as Obamacare remains vulnerable. President Trump has repeatedly threatened to end billions of dollars in […]
8/20/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “A fast-approaching deadline for insurers to commit to selling health plans next year under the Affordable Care Act is pressuring Republican lawmakers to decide quickly whether to shore up the law and ease the path for insurers or continue efforts to roll it back. Lawmakers returning to the Capitol from recess on Sept. 5 […]
8/16/2017
HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The Trump administration is poised to issue a rule unwinding an Obama -era requirement that employee health benefits include contraception, which will spark a fresh round of litigation over an issue that has been before courts for six years. Federal health officials are expected to finalize a regulation that would allow employers […]
8/15/2017
BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year, and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade, if President Trump carried out his threat to end certain subsidies paid to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act, the Congressional Budget Office […]
8/13/2017
HEALTHCARE/HHS/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has threatened to blow up Obamacare. But his own administration is separately dangling hundreds of millions of dollars before states to bail out their insurance markets. Alaska will get $323 million over the next five years to coax its lone Obamacare insurer to remain in the market and hold […]
8/10/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PHARMA/TAXES: “Insurers are making final decisions about their Obamacare rates for next year. So far, it looks as if many of them will be building in an uncertainty tax… Two themes stick out: One is that, while insurance premiums will rise substantially in many cities, the increases are generally not bigger than they were last […]
8/10/2017
HEALTHCARE/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mitch, get back to work and put Repeal & Replace, Tax Reform & Cuts and a great Infrastructure Bill on my desk for signing. You can do it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 10, 2017 11:40am […]
8/10/2017
HEALTHCARE/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can you believe that Mitch McConnell, who has screamed Repeal & Replace for 7 years, couldn’t get it done. Must Repeal & Replace ObamaCare!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 10, 2017 05:54am […]
8/9/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Senator Mitch McConnell said I had ‘excessive expectations,’ but I don’t think so. After 7 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 9, 2017 01:14pm […]
8/7/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TAXES: “Republicans acknowledge that the aggressive timeline they have set up for overhauling the tax code this fall leaves them little room for error. There could be one problem with that: Obamacare isn’t going away. President Donald Trump has dropped hints that he might stop the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing reduction payments, through which federal […]
8/6/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/TAXES: “Congressional Republicans plan to use the next four weeks away from Washington making a public case for a sweeping rewrite of the tax code, an ambitious legislative undertaking they hope will heal divisions that opened when the party’s signature health-care bill collapsed. But at home in their districts, they face pressures that could make […]
8/3/2017
HEALTHCARE/VA/VETS: “Our GREAT VETERANS can now connect w/ their VA healthcare team from anywhere, using #VAVideoConnect – available at: https://t.co/WFFHLWn8nF. https://t.co/Dmq4htSps9” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 02:07pm […]
8/3/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/RUSSIA: “Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can’t even give us HCare!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2017 07:18am […]
8/1/2017
HEALTHCARE/HHS/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PHARMA: “Major health insurers in some states are seeking increases as high as 30% or more for premiums on 2018 Affordable Care Act plans, according to new federal data that provide the broadest view so far of the turmoil across exchanges as companies try to anticipate Trump administration policies. Big insurers in Idaho, West Virginia, […]
7/31/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans have no plans to revive their party-line attempts to repeal Obamacare this summer, despite President Donald Trump’s increasing frustration over the chamber’s failed attempts last week to gut the law. ‘Until somebody shows us a way to get that elusive 50th vote, I think it’s over,’ said Sen. John Thune […]
7/31/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Outspoken conservative commentator Tomi Lahren admitted she still benefits from a feature of Obamacare while arguing against it during a debate with Chelsea Handler on Saturday. Lahren and Handler faced off at Politicon, a non-partisan event, which features debates, panels, film, and comedy. As expected, Lahren and Handler’s conversation turned towards the Affordable Care […]
7/31/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “If ObamaCare is hurting people, & it is, why shouldn’t it hurt the insurance companies & why should Congress not be paying what public pays?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2017 07:16am […]
7/30/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Don’t give up Republican Senators, the World is watching: Repeal & Replace…and go to 51 votes (nuke option), get Cross State Lines & more.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2017 06:37am […]
7/30/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Susan Collins, one of three Republican senators who blocked the GOP’s health-care bill last week, on Sunday said President Donald Trump’s threatened cuts in payments to insurers would be ‘detrimental’ to America’s poor. The secretary of health and human services, meanwhile, was noncommittal about the payments and also declined to say […]
7/30/2017
HEALTHCARE/HHS/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TOM PRICE: “U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on Sunday that it was his department’s job to follow the law on the Affordable Care Act, former President Obama’s signature domestic initiative known as Obamacare. Price, on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ was asked whether he would implement the Affordable Care Act as it […]
7/29/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Unless the Republican Senators are total quitters, Repeal & Replace is not dead! Demand another vote before voting on any other bill!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2017 03:36pm […]
7/29/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday [7-29-17] to end government payments to health insurers if Congress does not pass a new healthcare bill and goaded them to not abandon their seven-year quest to replace the Obamacare law. In a Twitter message on Saturday, Trump said ‘if a new HealthCare Bill is […]
7/29/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2017 11:27am […]
7/29/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “After seven years of ‘talking’ Repeal & Replace, the people of our great country are still being forced to live with imploding ObamaCare!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2017 11:19am […]
7/28/2017
HEALTHCARE/LGBTQ/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s tweets banning transgender Americans from serving in the armed forces not only sent shockwaves from the barracks to Capitol Hill, they also rocked the families of service members whose military health care coverage provides essential care for their transgender children. ‘I instantly started crying,’ Amanda Brewer told NBC Washington. Her […]
7/28/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “For years, Congressional Republicans have promised that their policy ideas, paired with a Republican in the White House, would lead to an instant obliteration of President Barack Obama’s health care law and the advent of something less expensive, more efficient and delivering better care. In the wee hours of Friday [7-28-17] morning, that plan […]
7/28/2017
HEALTHCARE/JOHN MCCAIN/OBAMCARE(ACA): “In the end, it was a simple hand gesture – Senator John McCain pointing his right index finger in a downward motion to register a no vote – that ruined his party’s seven-year effort to repeal Obamacare. But in that signal in the early hours of Friday [7-28-17], the 80-year-old McCain also delivered […]
7/28/2017
DEMS/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “If Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority, not senseless 60… Even though parts of healthcare could pass at 51, some really good things need 60. So many great future bills & budgets need 60 votes…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 28, […]
7/28/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PHARMA: “Senate Republicans’ failure to pass their limited health bill is a relief for health insurers, but it leaves the companies struggling with increasingly urgent questions as they make decisions about participating in the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges. Insurers had already been pressing for legislation aimed at stabilizing the marketplaces, an idea that is likely […]
7/28/2017
DEMS/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 28, 2017 01:25am […]
7/27/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE: “Go Republican Senators, Go! Get there after waiting for 7 years. Give America great healthcare!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2017 09:43pm […]
7/27/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Come on Republican Senators, you can do it on Healthcare. After 7 years, this is your chance to shine! Don’t let the American people down!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2017 06:24am […]
7/26/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The Senate’s marathon debate to dismantle Obamacare enters Day Two on Wednesday [7-26-17], as Republican senators continue painstaking deliberations to reach an ultimate agreement on health care reform. The first order of business Wednesday afternoon: senators will consider as an amendment an Obamacare repeal bill — without an immediate replacement — that Congress passed […]
7/26/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “President Donald Trump accused Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a fellow Republican, of disappointing the country by opposing the GOP effort to demolish the Obama health care law, after initial votes demonstrated the party will be hard pressed to make any sweeping changes in the statute. Senators planned to vote Wednesday [7-26-17] on a Republican […]
7/26/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PHARMA: “Anthem Inc said it may exit more individual Obamacare markets as the future of the national healthcare law and the government subsidies that make insurance affordable for millions of Americans remain up in the air. Republican lawmakers are in the midst of a freewheeling debate to craft a bill that would end Obamacare, but […]
7/26/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/POLITICS: “Senator @lisamurkowski of the Great State of Alaska really let the Republicans, and our country, down yesterday. Too bad!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2017 06:13am […]
7/25/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/JOHN MCCAIN/MIKE PENCE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Senate Republicans overcame a range of internal fissures in narrowly voting on Tuesday [7-26-17] to begin debate on their health-care overhaul, but the party suffered a setback hours later when a proposal replacing major portions of the Affordable Care Act failed to attract enough votes to pass. In a dramatic day at […]
7/24/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump called Monday [7-24-17] on Republican senators to vote this week to initiate debate on the party’s effort to overturn the law they call Obamacare, saying ‘now is the time’ for senators to keep their campaign promises. ‘For the past seven years Republicans have been united in standing up for […]
7/25/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Senate Republicans on Tuesday [725-17] backed a motion that allows lawmakers to launch into debate over a health-overhaul bill, a significant victory for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and for President Donald Trump, who stepped in to pressure Republicans after it appeared they were failing in their bid to repeal the Affordable Care Act. […]
7/25/2017
HEALTHCARE/JOHN MCCAIN: “@SenJohnMcCain-Thank you for coming to D.C. for such a vital vote. Congrats to all Rep. We can now deliver grt healthcare to all Americans!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2017 02:24pm […]
7/25/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The American people have waited long enough. There has been enough talk and no action for seven years. Now is the time for action! https://t.co/VdTiYL0Ua7” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2017 10:20am […]
7/25/2017
DEMS/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “This will be a very interesting day for HealthCare.The Dems are obstructionists but the Republicans can have a great victory for the people!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2017 07:19am […]
7/25/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “ObamaCare is torturing the American People.The Democrats have fooled the people long enough. Repeal or Repeal & Replace! I have pen in hand.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2017 05:38am […]
7/25/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Big day for HealthCare. After 7 years of talking, we will soon see whether or not Republicans are willing to step up to the plate!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2017 05:27am […]
7/24/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “President Donald Trump made a last-minute pitch to GOP senators urging them to vote Tuesday [7-25-17] to begin debate on a sweeping health-care law, an exhortation that added to the pressures facing congressional Republicans at a critical moment. An unusually large number of GOP senators have signaled resistance to taking even the first procedural […]
7/24/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Any senator who votes against starting debate is telling America that you are fine w/ the #OCareNightmare! Remarks: https://t.co/tSvWaMdxBA https://t.co/DI7e78hr6N -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 24, 2017 04:33pm […]
7/24/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Republicans have a last chance to do the right thing on Repeal & Replace after years of talking & campaigning on it.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 24, 2017 08:18am […]
7/23/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “If Republicans don’t Repeal and Replace the disastrous ObamaCare, the repercussions will be far greater than any of them understand!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 23, 2017 07:01pm […]
7/23/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Senate Republicans are expected to vote as early as Tuesday [7-25-17] to begin debate on their sweeping health-care legislation—but they don’t know yet what measure they will be voting on. Some senators said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has told them they would know before the vote whether they would be asked to […]
7/22/2017
DEMS/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “ObamaCare is dead and the Democrats are obstructionists, no ideas or votes, only obstruction. It is solely up to the 52 Republican Senators!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, 2017 07:23am […]
7/22/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The Republican Senators must step up to the plate and, after 7 years, vote to Repeal and Replace. Next, Tax Reform and Infrastructure. WIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 22, 2017 07:17am […]
7/21/2017
HEALTHCARE/MIKE PENCE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “A Medicaid expert and close associate of Vice President Mike Pence has emerged as one of the most influential advocates of the Obamacare repeal effort. Seema Verma, who runs Medicare and Medicaid for the Trump administration, keeps a low public profile, but behind the scenes, she’s been guiding skeptical Republican senators and governors […]
7/20/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/MEDICARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Senate Republicans, scrambling to win support for their health-care bill, pushed a measure Thursday [7-20-17] that they said could ease the impact of the bill’s Medicaid cuts on low-income people. Advocating for the new direction is a little-known health official who is now at the center of the health-care fight: Seema Verma, head of […]
7/20/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The number of people without health insurance would rise by 22 million in a decade if a revised Senate Republican bill replaced large parts of the Affordable Care Act, while federal deficits would be cut by $420 billion, according to a report Thursday [7-20-17] from the Congressional Budget Office. The impact of the new […]
7/20/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/NEW YORK: “President Trump has yet to sign a Republican health care bill, but New York’s attorney general vowed this week to challenge it in court. The same day, a government watchdog group urged a federal judge to block Trump’s voter fraud commission from gathering sensitive state data. Environmental groups were busy as well. The […]
7/19/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump returned to Twitter on Wednesday [7-19-17] morning and said that Republican senators must keep their promise to America, but he was not specific about which promise on health care legislation he was discussing. Republicans have been promising for seven years to undo President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act, but […]
7/19/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PHARMA: “Fresh from battling the White House and Republicans in Congress over a now-sidelined repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the nation’s hospitals are ramping up for a new fight to keep lucrative pharmaceutical subsidies. A Trump administration proposal that could take effect in 2018 would cut a subsidy Medicare has given certain hospitals for […]
7/19/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The Republicans never discuss how good their healthcare bill is, & it will get even better at lunchtime.The Dems scream death as OCare dies!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 19, 2017 07:46am […]
7/19/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “I will be having lunch at the White House today with Republican Senators concerning healthcare. They MUST keep their promise to America!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 19, 2017 07:30am […]
7/19/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “As their seven-year effort to repeal and replace Obamacare derailed in the U.S. Senate, Republicans faced the prospect of doing the once unthinkable: working with Democrats to make fixes to former President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law. Bipartisan breakthroughs would likely come in the form of individual bills targeted at issues such as stabilizing […]
7/18/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “With their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in tatters, Senate leaders on Tuesday [7-18-17] pushed to vote on a different measure that would repeal major parts of President Barack Obama’s health law without a replacement — but that plan appeared also to collapse. Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Shelley Moore […]
7/18/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump was fed up with the grind of health care legislation, and at a dinner with Republican senators on Monday [7-17-17] at the White House, he let them know it. He told the lawmakers how annoyed he was with one Republican who was not there, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who […]
7/18/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “For the health-care system, it’s back to square one. Insurers, hospitals and state officials are facing the prospect that the Affordable Care Act will remain the law of the land for now at least, but they also are left with huge questions about how key aspects of the law will be handled under the […]
7/18/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Senate GOP leaders gave up their effort to dismantle and simultaneously replace much of the Affordable Care Act, after the defections of two more Republican senators left the party short of the votes needed to pass President Donald Trump’s top legislative priority of his first seven months in office. In a stinging defection for […]
7/18/2017
HEALTHCARE/MIKE PENCE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Vice President Mike Pence warned Republican lawmakers on Tuesday [7-18-17] that ‘inaction is not an option’ on Obamacare, urging Republicans to ‘do their jobs’ by passing legislation to undo former President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement. ‘Congress needs to step up,’ Pence said Tuesday in remarks at a National Retail Federation summit in […]
7/18/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The Senate must go to a 51 vote majority instead of current 60 votes. Even parts of full Repeal need 60. 8 Dems control Senate. Crazy!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 18, 2017 08:26am […]
7/18/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Two more Senate Republicans have declared their opposition to the latest plan to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, potentially ending a months-long effort to make good on a GOP promise that has defined the party for nearly a decade and been a top priority for President Trump. Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Jerry Moran […]
7/18/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “As I have always said, let ObamaCare fail and then come together and do a great healthcare plan. Stay tuned!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 18, 2017 06:58am […]
7/17/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 17, 2017 09:17pm […]
7/17/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “In the end, Republicans relearned a lesson that has bedeviled them since the New Deal: An American entitlement, once established, can almost never be retracted. Since the day the Affordable Care Act passed Congress, Republicans have vowed to overturn it. In the beginning, many voters were with them, handing the Republican Party some […]
7/17/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The White House has met with at least three actual or prospective primary challengers to Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake in recent weeks, a reflection of Donald Trump’s strained relations with the senator and the latest sign of the president’s willingness to play hardball with lawmakers who cross him — even Republican incumbents. Flake, a […]
7/17/2017
HEALTHCARE/NEW YORK/OBAMACARE(ACA): “New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman intends to sue the federal government if Republican lawmakers pass proposed legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, his office said on Monday [7-17-17]. Schneiderman’s office said it has identified ‘multiple constitutional defects’ with the Republican healthcare bills. The U.S. Senate is considering legislation to repeal […]
7/17/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TAXES: “Republican efforts to pass a health-care bill have revealed a party fissure on health-related taxes with potentially far-reaching repercussions. In his latest attempt to rewrite President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) retained a 3.8% investment-income tax and a 0.9% payroll tax that apply to individuals earning more […]
7/16/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “The condition for which Senator John McCain had surgery on Friday [7-14-17] may be more serious than initial descriptions have implied, and it may delay his return to Washington by at least a week or two, medical experts said on Sunday. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has already announced that votes on a […]
7/16/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “A Republican push to pass a sweeping health-care law experienced another setback as Senate leaders said they would delay a vote set for this week, sparking fresh doubts about whether congressional leaders can muster support for a marquee GOP policy priority. President Donald Trump and party leaders in Congress were hoping the Senate would […]
7/15/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Next week the Senate is going to vote on legislation to save Americans from the ObamaCare DISASTER. #WeeklyAddress?? https://t.co/xjVDkgo1NK” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 15, 2017 12:56pm […]
7/14/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PHARMA/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Two major U.S. health insurance groups on Friday [7-14-17] called on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to drop from a healthcare bill a provision proposed by Senator Ted Cruz that allows insurers to offer stripped-down, low-cost healthcare plans. ‘It is simply unworkable in any form and would undermine protections for those with pre-existing […]
7/14/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Nevada officials were stunned last month to learn consumers in most of the state might have no way to get health plans under the Affordable Care Act, because insurers were pulling back from the insurance marketplace… As some insurers announce plans to pull back or exit insurance exchanges, and others seek major rate increases […]