HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Just when the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act appeared to be dead, a last-ditch push to obliterate the law could be nearing a showdown vote in the Senate, and a handful of Republicans insist they are closing in on the votes. The leaders of the latest repeal effort, Senators Lindsey Graham […]
Category: Pre-existing conditions
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 […]
7/14/2017
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 […]
6/12/2017
GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Donald Trump’s top campaign promise of repealing Obamacare remains unfinished as the President heads into Washington’s sweltering summer months. With the Republican Party’s most pressing undertaking stuck in limbo, GOP senators and aides are beginning to wonder about one undesirable outcome: that the Senate takes a vote on a health care bill in […]
6/7/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Republican senators are likely to keep a key Obamacare provision intended for people with pre-existing conditions as they craft their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The move, however, could infuriate conservatives in their own ranks and set up a showdown with the House of Representatives, perhaps endangering the entire […]
5/26/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Shortly after President Trump took office, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, met privately with his colleagues to discuss the Republican agenda. Repealing the Affordable Care Act was at the top, he said. But replacing it would be really hard. Mr. McConnell was right. The many meetings Republicans held to discuss […]
5/15/2017
BUDGET/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Senate negotiators, meeting stiff resistance to the House’s plans to sharply reduce the scope and reach of Medicaid, are discussing a compromise that would maintain the program’s expansion under the Affordable Care Act but subject that larger version of Medicaid to new spending limits. With 62 senators, including 20 Republicans, coming from states […]
5/14/2017
HEALTHCARE/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Conservative Senate Republicans are weighing faster and steeper cuts to Medicaid that could drop millions of people from coverage and mark the biggest changes to the program in its 52-year history. The plan being pushed by lawmakers such as Mike Lee (R., Utah) is likely to face resistance from centrist GOP senators who […]
5/4/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Jody Neal-Post has been reading about the health care law debate with worry these days. She’s worried about how the new health care law won’t carry protections for all people with pre-existing conditions. She is relatively healthy, but before Obamacare, she had a hard time getting insurance because of what some companies considered […]
5/4/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “REPEALING AND REPLACING: President Donald J. Trump supports the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which will remove Obamacare’s burden and put in place a responsible replacement. The AHCA protects the most vulnerable Americans, including those with pre-existing conditions. Nobody can be denied coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition and the […]
5/1/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “The White House and congressional Republicans are in serious danger of not having enough votes to pass their health care bill. Several Republicans have come out Monday [5-1-17] against the current measure to repeal and replace Obamacare, bringing CNN’s whip count to 21 Republicans — mostly moderates — opposed to the bill with […]
4/30/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “You can’t compare anything to ObamaCare because ObamaCare is dead. Dems want billions to go to Insurance Companies to bail out donors… healthcare plan is on its way. Will have much lower premiums & deductibles while at the same time taking care of pre-existing conditions!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 30, 2017 07:28 to […]
4/27/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The health care bill has been resurrected. Now, its fate rests in the hands of moderate House Republicans, whose ultimate decision to support or reject the newest version of the bill could not only affect the future of health care but could irrevocably reshape moderates’ bargaining power throughout Donald Trump’s presidency. […]
4/20/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “House Republicans are outlining a new deal that could revive their bid to repeal Obamacare — and set up an all-out sprint to make concrete progress on health care amid the specter of a government shutdown. The flurry of activity just days before Congress returns to Washington aims to reunite the GOP behind […]
04/06/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “With their plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act stalled, Republican House leaders on Thursday unveiled an amendment aimed at lowering premiums, a move to gain more support for their health-care effort before they head home for a two-week recess. The new provision would create a fund of $15 billion over the next […]
04/05/2017
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Republicans already paid a political price for their failure to repeal Obamacare just under two weeks ago, but Democrats are also preparing to make the GOP suffer at the ballot box in 2018 over their latest attempt to roll back the health care law. As GOP leaders work to revive their Obamacare bill, […]
3/9/2016
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “The thing with ‘Obama care’ is the young people aren’t joining. And the people that they really want to pay for other people that do have difficulty — I mean, you know, preexisting and difficulties — those people aren’t joining. The people with difficulties are all joining. And it’s just not working… It […]
2/25/2016
DEBATES/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “I know the insurance companies, they’re friends of mine. The top guys, they’re friends of mine. I shouldn’t tell you guys, you’ll say it’s terrible, I have a conflict of interest. They’re friends of mine, there’s some right in the audience. One of them was just waving to me, he was laughing and […]
2/25/2016
DEBATES/HEALTHCARE/MARCO RUBIO/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: [Dana Bush: “Mr. Trump, Senator Rubio just said that you support the individual mandate. Would you respond?”] “I just want to say, I agree with that 100 percent, except pre-existing conditions, I would absolutely get rid of Obamacare. We’re going to have something much better, but pre-existing conditions, when I’m referring to […]
2/19/2016
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “I was referring to a backstop for pre-existing conditions. I will eliminate the law, in its entirety, & replace it w/ something much better.” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 19, 2016 […]
3/23/2015
JOE BIDEN/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Today [March 23, 2015] marks five years since 11-year-old Marcelas Owens and I watched the President sign the Affordable Care Act into law. Marcelas lost his mom to an illness when he was a younger boy. She didn’t have insurance, so she couldn’t afford the care that she needed. No family […]
1/3/2015
JOE BIDEN/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “And because of the new law, people who already had health insurance are also benefitting from additional protections. For example, their insurance companies can’t deny them coverage because of pre-existing conditions, like asthma or diabetes. And they’re able to get — for free — preventive services like mammograms or blood pressure […]
10/15/2013
HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TERRORISM: “Al Qaeda terrorist Al Libi was immediately read his rights & is now being treated for ‘pre-existing’ medical condition in NYC. Does he qualify for ObamaCare?” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, via Trumptwitterarchive.com, Twitlonger.com, Oct. 15, 2013 2:04 pm […]
7/16/2009
HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: “Vice President Biden and members of the Middle Class Task Force just concluded a health care reform discussion in Alexandria, Virginia… Health care reform will lower costs for 50-64 year old Americans by providing assistance to employer health plans to encourage them to cover recent retirees and by giving individuals access […]