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Read President Obama’s Inspiring Message On Obamacare’s 14th Birthday
President Obama released an inspiring message to commemorate the 14th anniversary of his signature legislative accomplishment The Affordable Care Act.
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Democrats Win As Republicans Have Completely Given Up On Repealing Obamacare
Obamacare is no longer mentioned on the campaign trail, as Republicans have given up their decade-plus campaign to repeal Obamacare.
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Opinion: The Dangerous Distortion of “Fairness†in the Student Loan Forgiveness Debate
Biden’s plan is an effort to create fairness and equity when it comes to access to higher education.
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Opinion: Obama’s White House Visit Underlines Story Democrats Need To Tell About Themselves And GOP
Democrats need to focus intensely on loudly telling the story of what life in America will really be like if Republicans rule.
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Opinion: Can Americans Survive Without “Radical Socialism�
Again, we have to ask, where and in what shape would Americans and the U.S. economy be without the “radical socialist†agenda of the Biden administration?
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Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act
The United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act after rejecting the latest challenge from Republicans and former President Donald Trump‘s administration. In a 7-2 ruling, the court said states lacked the legal right to challenge the ruling, finding that a contested provision had not been injurious. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented….
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We’re Getting Health Care Totally Wrong
cost caps is the right solution on healthcareSince Congress passed the Affordable Care Act a decade ago, we’ve gotten totally stuck on health care. The parties are at war with each other. Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA 70 times. Democrats can’t decide whether to reform the system with a “public option†or to…
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1 Million Americans Signed Up for ACA Coverage After Biden Reopened the Exchange
President Joe Biden announced that 1 million Americans have signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after his administration reopened the health care exchange for a special sign-up period. “That’s one million more Americans who now have the peace of mind that comes from having health insurance,” Biden said in a statement….
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Opinion: The Possibilities for Biden’s Vision to Overcome Trump’s Division
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned aspirationally on a vision of uniting a country many see as severely, if not hopelessly, divided. After all, while Biden amassed over 80 million votes, the most votes ever tallied by any candidate in a presidential election in U.S. history, Trump hauled in the second-most votes ever, finding the support of…
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Let Us Count the Ways Trump, GOP Have Created a Death Culture in America
We often define culture as a “way of life.†Implicit in this definition is the notion that culture should support and value human life. It makes sense, right? A “way of life†promises, in its very language, to support living, not promote dying. And yet, as I have written about on multiple occasions (here ,…
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Trans Lives Matter, Too: November 2020 Will be a Reckoning on Civil Rights for All
Amidst the recent mass nationwide uprisings, dominated by the sentiments of the Black Lives Matter movement, an effective reincarnation of the Civil Rights Movement, the Trump administration has continued its efforts to deny transgender people civil rights, denying them equal protections under the law. Let’s look at just two recent examples of the Trump administration…
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Opinion: Coronavirus Proves Necessity of Democrats’ Plan to Support American Lives Heading into 2020 Election
In his 1980 campaign against incumbent President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously asked, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?†The powerful question gave voters clear and focused direction in assessing how well the federal government was supporting and working to improve the everyday lives of Americans. What if we asked…
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While Trump Seeks Elimination of ACA, Pelosi Re-focuses Americans, Media Heading into 2020
As coverage of the coronavirus streams 24-7 on the airways, updating cases and casualties as well as policy shifts and other breaking developments, it is understandable Americans might find their attention riveted to day to day events linked to the pandemic, making it hard to even think about larger political contexts or issues raised by…
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10 Years After Passing Affordable Care Act, Obama Says It’s ‘Progress Worth Protecting’ Against Republican Attempts To End It
In conjunction with a political organization called “Protect Our Care,” which seeks to provide “outreach, rapid response, research and messaging center in the fight to protect health care,” former President Barack Obama released a video in which he celebrated and touted the reforms passed in the Affordable Care Act. The ACA, commonly called Obamacare by…
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Opinion: Fuller Picture Shows Trump’s Policies are Devastating to Americans’ Economic Well-Being
In response to news that the economy created 266,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate dipped to 50-year lows, CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza rehashed the tired but nonetheless damaging and deceptive narrative that “the economy†is indeed strong, providing Trump a clear path to re-election if only he were politically deft and disciplined…
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A Peek Behind the Numbers Shows Trump’s Economy Inflicts Pain on Most Americans
Can we call an economy “successful,†if people living within it are being harmed, not served?
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Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms: A Political Compass in the Age of Trump
Recalling Roosevelt’s four freedoms helps us realize exactly the damage Trump is doing but also helps us keep our eyes on the prize of what we need to correct, restore, and achieve to enjoy Roosevelt’s ideals of freedom.
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Why the Mueller Report is the Kitchen Table Issue of all Kitchen Table Issues
And are we foolish enough to believe Putin and the Russians care about the healthy and secure futures of American workers? Of America’s children?
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Deluded Trump Says the GOP Will Pass a ‘Great’ Healthcare Law After 2020
According to The Washington Post this morning, Donald Trump will not attempt to get Congress to pass legislation on healthcare — including changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) — until after the 2020 elections. The clearly-delusional president said that he believes that in 2020 he will be reelected, and Republicans will control…
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A GOP Disaster Looms in 2020 Due to Trump’s Moves on Social Programs
Donald Trump’s self-destructive decision to try to completely dismantle the Affordable Care Act, as the race for the 2020 election is just beginning, has Republican lawmakers and GOP consultants panicking. They know something that he apparently doesn’t know: that Trump’s moves on healthcare and other social programs will assure that he loses in 2020. And…
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Trump Suffers Huge Losses in Court on Healthcare Rules
Donald Trump keeps trying to undo the nation’s healthcare protections, and he keeps losing in court. The latest loss came when a federal judge struck down a Trump administration rule aimed at enabling millions of Americans to buy cheap health insurance plans that do not comply with key Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requirements. The rule…
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Bill Barr Moves to Destroy ObamaCare and the Republican Party
William Barr’s latest move as Trump’s attorney general is intended to destroy the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) but also may destroy the GOP. Last December a federal district court judge issued a ruling saying the Obamacare individual mandate is now unconstitutional because of a provision of the 2017 GOP tax scam law. At the time…
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Trump Continues To Destroy Obamacare and Raise Health Insurance Rates
In an unusual Saturday announcement, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) said it will no longer collect and pay out money under the “risk adjustment†program of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) also known as Obamacare. By freezing risk adjustment payments the move will add significantly to health insurance premium increases next year. Under…
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Healthcare Premiums Are Skyrocketing Because of the GOP
Virginia and Maryland have just made public health insurance company requests for 2019 premium increases under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare), and the results are shocking. Health insurers in both states want double-digit increases in monthly premiums for individual medical plans. CareFirst, for example, wants to nearly double the amount it charges on…
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House Republicans Keep Obamacare Fixes Out of Spending Bill
The Obamacare fixes that were promised to Senator Susan Collins in exchange for her support of the Republican tax bill in December appear to be in serious trouble. Earlier this week Republicans in Congress released their plan to stabilize healthcare exchanges under Obamacare (also known as the Affordable Care Act or the ACA). In this…
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Imagining the Wonderful Life Hillary Clinton Would Have Been Creating for America
Democrats and progressives of all stripes will need to paint a vivid portrayal of the wonderful life we might have been living with Hillary Clinton as President and the possibilities they can deliver if they achieve congressional majorities.
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Feed the Beast, Starve the People: What’s Really Been Going on with GOP Tax Policy and Strategy
Over the last July 4 holiday, in an infamous moment inspiring public outrage, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was captured on film enjoying a public beach with his family. His family were the only ones on the beach, as the beach had been closed to the public because the state, due largely to a Christie…
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From Populism to Donorism: The GOP’s Authoritarian Rule Disregards American Majority
Remember last July when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced sanctions against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Moros and his regime? At the time the Maduros regime was attempting to re-write Venezuela’s constitution to erode provisions enforcing democratic institutions in order to secure dictatorial powers for himself. Mnuchin issued a statement last July 31 that, looking back,…
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Trump’s Sabotage Efforts A Miserable Failure As Obamacare Signups Break Record
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
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‘Stupidity And Petulance’: Howard Dean Lambasts Clueless Trump’s Healthcare Moves
“Donald Trump no more knows anything about the insurance company than the man on the moon. So, you know, this is silly. This is typical Trump. He gets upset about something, he reacts.”
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Blatant Sabotage: Trump Is Cutting Off Obamacare Funding That Helps Americans Afford Insurance
The latest move shows that Donald Trump will do anything – even sabotage a health care law that millions of Americans rely on – if it destroys any part of Barack Obama’s legacy.Â
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Chuck Schumer Tells Trump To Get Lost After POTUS Begs Him To Help Repeal Obamacare
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.
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Trump’s Cruelty Exposed As He Denied Red State Request To Stabilize Health Insurance Market
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
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Waste, Fraud, And Abuse Found In Opportunity Cost Of Trumpcare Bills
If the Republicans in Congress want to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, in government and government spending, they can start with the time spent on their immoral policies that fail to serve the common good.
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Graham-Cassidy Proves Republicans Only Want To Destroy Obama’s Legacy, Not Improve Health Care
Repeat after me: This is not about improving health care in America or making your life better. It’s an effort to tarnish the legacy of America’s first African American president.
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Tom Price Used $300K In Taxpayer Funds For Private Travel While Trying To Take Your Health Care
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.
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Trump’s Health Secretary Is Using Taxpayer Money For Expensive Flights On Private Jets
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.
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John Kasich Tells GOP To Stop Trying To Repeal Obamacare And Work With Democrats To Improve It
Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act aren’t just impractical, but they are cruel.
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Trump Tweets Blatant Lie That Graham-Cassidy Bill Protects Those With Pre-Existing Conditions
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.
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Dem Senator Blasts GOP For Only Allowing 90 Seconds Of Debate On Health Care Bill
“I think we will have anywhere from – literally, by rule – 90 seconds to two minutes of debate on this legislation. Now that is an abomination, that is legislative malpractice.”
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Joy Reid Crushes New Obamacare Repeal Bill With Damning Analysis Of Who It Would Hurt
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.
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Top GOP Senator Rounding Up Votes For Last-Ditch Effort To Take Health Care Away From Millions
With the end of September marching closer and 2018 around the bend, Republicans are still unlikely to pass any bill to repeal and replace a law that has saved lives. In other words, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.
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Bernie Sanders Completely Dismantles GOP Argument Against Single Payer In 60 Seconds
“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.”
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Potential 2020 Democratic Nominees Are Lining Up Behind New Single-Payer Health Care Bill
The move by top Democrats sets up a stark contrast between themselves and Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election.
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New Obamacare Repeal Bill Has Been Killed Before Most People Knew It Existed
The White House wants to see the plan approved by Congress, but not even GOP leadership is interested in pushing the measure through.
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Your Health Care Is In Danger As House Republicans Scramble To Force New Obamacare Repeal Vote
A new shot has been fired in the never ending circular firing squad that is the Republican effort to take health care away from millions. House Republicans are mad at the Senate so they are trying to force a vote on a repeal only of Obamacare.
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GOP Plotting To Take Another Shot At Repealing Obamacare And Hurting Millions Of Americans
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.
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Trump Threatens To Hit Americans With Higher Health Care Costs In Another Twitter Meltdown
Trump repeated the lie that the Affordable Care Act is “imploding” and issued a threat to end payments that keep health care costs down.
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House Republican Lays Waste To Trump For Failing So Miserably On Health Care
“One of the failures was the president never laid out a plan or his core principles and never sold them to the American people,” the Republican said.
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Desperate GOP Eyes Last-Ditch Bill That Would Leave 16 Million Uninsured And Spike Premiums 20%
The “skinny” repeal that is gaining steam may have a cute name, but it would cause a humanitarian crisis and leave millions of Americans without the care they need.
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Senate Republicans Admit They Don’t Know What’s In Their Own Healthcare Bill
Republicans are admitting that they don’t know what they’re voting on – and the legislation could still pass.
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John McCain Will Return To Help Pass Trumpcare After Receiving His Own World Class Treatment
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.
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Mentally Unstable Trump Whines And Blames Democrats For Failed GOP Health Care Plan
This is a President of the United States who is unwilling or unable to accept criticism or responsibility for his own failures.
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Paul Ryan Throws Trump-Like Tantrum Over The CBO’s New Score Of GOP Health Plan
The Speaker said more Americans will be without insurance because it’s what they want, not because the GOP health care plan is bad.
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Desperate GOP Calls Emergency Meeting To Revive Trumpcare And Kick Millions Off Insurance
The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can’t accept the fact that America isn’t buying what they’re selling.
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Rachel Maddow Credits Huge Victory On Health Care To Persistent Grassroots Activism
“These protests have been relentless,” Maddow said. “They’ve had a huge victory just tonight.”
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Trump’s Approval Rating On Health Care Tumbles Into The 20s As Trumpcare Dies In The Senate
The American people rate Trump’s performance on health care worse than any other issue facing the country.
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Latest Version Of Trumpcare Officially Dead As Two More GOP Senators Declare Opposition
This is a huge loss for the president and a monumental victory for the vast majority of Americans who believe health care shouldn’t be a privilege for the healthy and the wealthy, but a right for all.
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New Version Of Trumpcare On Its Deathbed As Key GOP Governor Slams The Revised Legislation
If Sandoval is against the revised legislation, it’s likely that Sen. Dean Heller will also oppose it, which could spell the end of Trumpcare once and for all.
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Get Ready: Senate Republicans Are About To Unveil Another Disastrous Version Of Trumpcare
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.
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GOP Senator Slams Trump’s Twitter Tantrums, Says His Presidency Has Been ‘Disappointing’
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.
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Hillary Clinton Brilliantly Trolls GOP On Twitter By Telling Them To Enact Her Health Care Plan
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.
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From Rauner to Trump, GOP Practices Politics of Erasure
The problem is, again, that those constituents you and I might call people, the GOP, federally and at the state level, have decided are “not even people.â€
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Joy Reid Smacks GOP With The Ultimate Reality Check On New ‘Repeal And Delay’ Plan
On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.
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Rachel Maddow Explains How The GOP Health Care Failure Is A Massive Embarrassment For Trump
“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.”
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Chris Murphy Slams Trumpcare As A ‘Rotting Fish’ That Will Become More And More Unpopular
“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.”
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Trump Makes One Of His Most Incoherent Statements Yet After GOP Health Bill Stalls
First, Trump said how important it is to pass the health care bill, and then he immediately said it’s “okay” if it fails.
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Bernie Sanders Says ‘Barbaric’ Trumpcare Will Lead To Thousands Of American Deaths
The Vermont senator said, “Many thousands of our fellow Americans every single year will die, and many more will suffer and become much sicker than they should” because of Trumpcare.
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Sherrod Brown Dismantles Cowardly GOP For Ignoring Widespread Opposition To Trumpcare
Whether they’re from a red state or blue state, Democrats are not afraid to speak out against this disastrous piece of legislation because they are listening to the American public.
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Nobody Is Safe Under Trumpcare As Millions Of Americans Will Lose Employer-Based Coverage
The legislation won’t just hurt millions of Americans who are covered under Medicaid or through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges.
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Trump’s Mental Death Spiral Continues As He Blames Obama For GOP Sabotage Of The ACA
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.
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Rachel Maddow Shows How The New GOP Health Plan Will Devastate 75 Million Americans
“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.”
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Trump Officially Commits Political Suicide With Tweet Praising Heartless GOP Health Plan
According to a recent poll, the GOP health care legislation is “the least popular major bill in decades.”
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Pro-Obamacare Protesters Storm D.C. Airport As GOP Senators Leave Town
The spontaneous demonstrations by pro-ACA activists shows how politically toxic this issue has become for Republicans as they prepare to dismantle Obamacare.
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Trumpcare Is On Its Deathbed As More GOP Senators Voice Opposition To Repeal Vote
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.
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Bernie Sanders Storms Senate Floor To Rip Trumpcare To Shreds: GOP ‘Should Be Embarrassed’
“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.”
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Here’s How Trump And The GOP Are Deviously Undercutting Obamacare In Swing States
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.
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GOP Doomed As Jon Ossoff Tears Apart Their Secret Health Plan Days Before Georgia Election
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.
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Trumpcare Is About To Go Up In Flames Because Of One Anti-Abortion Provision
Republicans may be forced to remove a portion of their legislation that would essentially doom the bill – again.
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Republicans Are Begging Democrats For A Deal As Trumpcare Is Failing In The Senate
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.
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Trumpcare Takes Another Blow As 76% Oppose GOP Assault On Pre-Existing Condition Coverage
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.
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Rachel Maddow Exposes A Pro-Trumpcare Congressman For Lying Right To His Constituent’s Face
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.
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Fox News Admits That Disastrous Trumpcare Is Laying The Groundwork For A Single-Payer System
“I would predict that in less than seven years, we’ll be in a single-payer system. That’s the great irony of this.”
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Bernie Sanders Tees Off: Trumpcare Is Not A Health Care Bill, It’s A Death Sentence
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.
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The Resistance Fights Back By Raising Half A Million Dollars In 24 Hours To Unseat Republicans
Americans are quickly mobilizing to defeat vulnerable GOP candidates who voted in favor the disastrous legislation.
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Hillary Clinton Urges The Resistance To “Fight Back” Against “Shameful” GOP Health Care Crusade
Clinton encouraged Americans to support Democratic candidates in swing districts represented by Republicans who voted for Trumpcare.
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Political Suicide: Every Republican Who Votes For Trumpcare Better Start Looking For Work
Members of Congress who put their name on this legislation should save themselves the time and not even launch a re-election campaign.
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“This Will Mean Death”: Cory Booker Delivers Emotional Takedown Of GOP Health Care Plan
“This will cost American lives if it ever becomes law. This will mean death, pain, and suffering to people’s families.”
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It’s Official: GOP Will Vote Thursday To Dismantle Health Care For Millions Of Americans
GOP Congressman Kevin McCarthy says Republicans do, in fact, have enough votes to advance the legislation.
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Democratic Senator Kindly Reminds Trump That The U.S. Government Has Checks And Balances
Murphy said that Trump should stop whining about not getting his way and start learning how to run the government.
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Trump Just Made Sure That Republicans Will Never Be Able To Kill Obamacare
Trump just came up with a new demand that will make it impossible for Republicans ever to pass a bill that would repeal Obamacare.
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Trump’s New Obamacare Repeal Bill Crashes And Burns As 21 Republicans Are Already Against It
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.
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Bernie Sanders To Introduce Health Care Legislation That Will Put The GOP Plan To Shame
“We’ve got to join the rest of the world and guarantee health care to all of our people as a right.”
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Trump Trying To Revive Politically Suicidal Health Care Plan As Approval Rating Craters
If there was a time for the president to revive Trumpcare, now would not be it.
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GOP Humiliation: Trumpcare Didn’t Even Have Majority Support Among Trump Voters
Even though Republicans are scrambling to move on from their health care collapse, the epic GOP humiliation lives on.
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There is No Disguising the Fact that GOP Health Care Means Just Letting People Die
“Can’t be said enough: Republicans objecting to #TrumpRyancare are doing so because it’s not yet cruel enough for the @freedomcaucus.”
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Trump To America: “Do Not Worry,” I Will Not Stop Trying To Take Health Care Away
Trump is publicly rooting for the failure of a law that has helped millions of Americans.
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Memo To Trump: Here’s What It Looks Like For A President To ‘Win’ On Health Care
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.
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Bill Maher To Trump Supporters: ‘Just Admit He Is A Conman’
“The Trump approach to health care was never going to be repeal and replace,” Maher said. “It was always bait and switch.”
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Angry Paul Ryan Runs From Reporters After Health Care Talks Fail Miserably
The Speaker was in no mood to deal with the press after a day of spectacular failures for his party.