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New Analysis Finds Trumpcare Would Be Even More Catastrophic Than Originally Thought

New Analysis Finds Trumpcare Would Be Even More Catastrophic Than Originally Thought

Trumpcare will cost more than initial estimates – and none of the cost increases will go toward covering the 24…

8 years ago

Trump Attacks Obamacare In Kentucky, Where It’s Insured More Than Half A Million People

If Trump wants to keep calling the Affordable Care Act a “disaster,” he probably shouldn’t do it in a state…

8 years ago

Hundreds Of Protesters In Deep Red Kentucky Greet Trump Ahead Of Third Campaign Rally

While Kentucky is a conservative state that Trump carried by nearly 30 percentage points last fall, it has in many…

8 years ago

Town Halls Show Participatory Democracy Best Hope of Saving Obamacare and Country

The recent uprisings at Republican town halls are demonstrating the power of the people to withstand and turn back the…

8 years ago

Fox News’s Own Poll Shows That Trump Is Failing As President

As Trump doubles down on defending a disastrous heath care bill, all while peddling paranoid conspiracy theories and covering up…

8 years ago

Fox News Panics After CBO Report And Begs GOP To Immediately Abandon Trumpcare

With even the most extreme conservatives opposing this plan, Republicans are miles away from repealing the Affordable Care Act.

8 years ago

Trumpcare Is Toxic And Everyone Knows It: Even The White House And Republicans in Congress

One does not need to be a Nobel Prize winning economist like Paul Krugman to see the achievements of Obamacare…

8 years ago

Opinion: Social Security Cuts Are On Trump’s Table Despite Campaign Pledge

"There are ways that we can not only allow the president to keep his promise, but to help him keep…

8 years ago

Rep. Steve King Says Pre-Obamacare Health Care System Was ‘Absolutely’ Better

"If the American people had to decide between continuing with Obamacare the way it is ... or going back to the…

8 years ago

Even Right-Wing Breitbart Thinks The GOP Plan To Replace Obamacare Is Terrible

Opposition is opposition and, reasons aside, it's good news that so many on both sides of the political spectrum are…

8 years ago

Don’t Be Fooled: GOP Obamacare Replacement Has Even Bigger Fines For Being Uninsured

Republicans claim to be doing away with the individual mandate. But their newly released plan would slap uninsured Americans with…

8 years ago

Rand Paul Says It’s Time To Move Past Russia Scandal, Focus On Taking People’s Healthcare

As the Russia scandal continues to blow up, Rand Paul is urging the country to look away and focus on…

8 years ago

GOP Senate Will Vote On Obamacare Repeal Next Month – With Nothing To Replace it

Republicans in Congress can't agree on how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, despite having seven years to…

8 years ago

Patriotic Millionaires Condemn Trump’s Plan to Gut Healthcare to Benefit the Wealthy

"Gutting the ACA funding would only further add to our already egregious levels of economic inequality"

8 years ago

Democrats Will Slam Trump As ‘Wall Street’s Champion’ In Post-Speech Rebuttal

The Democrats will use their first rebuttal speech to go hard after the unpopular president.

8 years ago

Bernie Sanders Mocks Donald Trump’s Surprise at Complexity of Healthcare

"Some of us, who were sitting on the Health Education Committee who went to meeting after meeting after meeting -…

8 years ago

Gov. Jay Inslee: Obamacare Repeal is ‘a Piggy Bank to Give Tax-Cuts to the Wealthy’

"I think that when you get into an airplane and you look at the cockpit and you see the pilot…

8 years ago

Town Halls Erupt With Passion As DAPL Camp Goes Down In Flames

For the party that talks so much about the value of life they sure put a whole lot of energy…

8 years ago

Trump Attacks “So-Called Angry” Americans Worried About Losing Their Health Insurance

With all due disrespect to the president, the people flooding these town halls in GOP districts are angry. There is…

8 years ago

New Trump Health Care Rule Would Hike Costs And Eliminate Middle-Class Tax Credits

All the terrible things Trump claims are true about the Affordable Care Act would become a reality under his new…

8 years ago

GOP Official Is Booed For Trying To Bring Death Panel Lie Back To Life

The American people are sick of the Republican Party's lies on Obamacare.

8 years ago

Millions On The Verge Of Losing Insurance As Senate Inches Toward Confirming Tom Price

Price as head of HHS will make the GOP attempt to take health insurance from millions of Americans much easier.

8 years ago

Disaster Looms For GOP As 35% Of Americans Have No Idea Trump Is About To Gut Their Health Care

The political implications of 35% of Americans not knowing that Obamacare and the ACA are the same things will be…

8 years ago

Chicago Rally Reveals Economic and Human Damage of GOP’s Real Motives and Hypocrisy in ACA Repeal

“What is the best way to decimate a community? Deny its people access to healthcare.” “What is the best way…

8 years ago

Saving the Affordable Care Act Is Our Moral Responsibility

Illness is indiscriminate and every person must be afforded the care they need when they need it.

8 years ago

Cruel Republicans Vote To Strip Healthcare From 6 Vulnerable Groups

Republicans blocked amendments that would protect the “most popular and effective provisions” of the ACA, including some with no fiscal…

8 years ago

Town Hall Audience Member Tells Paul Ryan That Obama, ACA Kept Him Alive

"I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren't…

8 years ago

GOP Prohibits CBO From Reporting How Much ACA Repeal Blows Up the Deficit

The new Republican rule implicitly instructs the CBO not to say how much it will cost taxpayers to repeal Obamacare,…

8 years ago

The Party of Life Must Vote for Life: All Eyes on Obamacare

It is time for the party of life to live up to their convictions and stop the repeal of the…

8 years ago

Republicans Fuming As Rand Paul Votes Against Obamacare Repeal Legislation

"I won’t vote for a terrible budget just to repeal Obamacare," Paul said on the Senate floor.

8 years ago

1 Million More Americans Sign Up For Obamacare As GOP Gleefully Prepares To Take It Away

The Republican strategy on the health care law boils down to this: Repeal it first and figure out what to…

8 years ago

Medicare and Medicaid Face Similar Fate as Obamacare Under Trump’s GOP

Trump promised his base he wouldn’t even think about or entertain any proposal to touch Medicare; now he vows "modernization"…

8 years ago

Donald Trump Tells 60 Minutes He Will Keep Parts of Obamacare

Trump says he will keep the pre-existing conditions, calling it 'one of the strongest assets,' as well as children living…

8 years ago

Congress Opposes President Obama’s Effort To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs

"Doctors get paid more if they prescribe really expensive drugs because they get paid a percentage of the cost of…

9 years ago

If You Have A Serious Illness, Paul Ryan Is Coming To Take Away Your Healthcare

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) dropped some hints about what the Republican alternative to Obamacare will look like,…

9 years ago

More Great Obama Economic News Republicans Are Afraid Americans Will Hear

2015 saw "the lowest number of bankruptcy filings for any 12-month period since 2007, and the fifth consecutive calendar year…

9 years ago

Paul Krugman Strikes Back At Liberals Who Attack ‘Obamacare’

Krugman points out that with GOP control the House, it may take many years before Republicans agree to provide more…

9 years ago

Hillary Rodham Clinton Sounds Like A Realist – Not A Republican

The reality is that when Democrats did have majorities in both houses of Congress they were barely able to pass…

9 years ago

Paul Krugman Says Hillary Clinton is Right and Bernie Sanders is Wrong on Healthcare

Paul Krugman has entered the healthcare reform fray on behalf of Hillary Clinton, a fact which will no doubt disappoint…

9 years ago

House Weekly Address Says Happy New Year, Now Die Without Insurance

The Republican-run House is up to its same old tricks: rather than helping Americans, attacking their access to healthcare

9 years ago

Debunking the GOP’s Obamacare Tax Meme Again

An old Republican lie about Obamacare and taxes is making the rounds again, so as a public service, here is…

9 years ago

Corporate Health Care Giants Make Their Move

These are the halcyon days for PoliticusUSA. Staff writers and contributors have an endless smorgasbord of Republican rubbish to expose.…

9 years ago

Obama Urges More People To Sign Up As ObamaCare Causes 45% Plunge In Uninsured Rate

President Obama isn't content with what the ACA has achieved. President Obama is urging Americans to sign up for ObamaCare…

9 years ago

House Freedom Caucus Document Explains Why the House Is Ungovernable

The recent revelation of a House Freedom Caucus 'questionnaire for prospective candidates for the Speakers' position clears up why Republicans…

9 years ago

Americans Fall In Love With Obamacare As New Poll Shows Growing ACA Support

According to the latest PPP Poll, more Americans support Obamacare than oppose it as Democrats have become unified in their…

9 years ago

Reaction To SCOTUS “Obamacare” Ruling Reveals Republicans’ Intrinsic Inhumanity

That idea of compassion, or humanity for other human beings has become anathema to Republicans and conservatives over the past…

9 years ago

CBO Drops Reality Bomb On Republicans: Repealing Obamacare Will Add $353 Billion to the Deficit

A new CBO report shows that Republicans want to repeal your healthcare so they can add $353 billion over the…

10 years ago

Obama Bluntly Calls Out Republicans For Trying To Take Healthcare Away From Millions

President Obama delivered a blunt message to Republicans. If they cynically mess with Obamacare, they will be harming he lives…

10 years ago

Solidly Republican Town Enrolls More People in Obamacare Than Anywhere in the Country

The town that signed up the most people for Obamacare is a "solidly Republican working-class town" in Jeb Bush and…

10 years ago

Republican Nightmares Come True As Customer Satisfaction With Obamacare Skyrockets

Republican nightmares have become reality as a new survey revealed that customer satisfaction with Obamacare has skyrocketed to the where…

10 years ago

Obama Tells Republicans To Embrace Reality As He Debunks Their Obamacare Lies

President Obama issued a statement celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act that told Republicans to embrace reality…

10 years ago

Obama Reminds Republicans That They Were Totally Wrong About Obamacare

While announcing that the ACA is beating all projections, President Obama reminded Republicans that they were wrong about Obamacare.

10 years ago

Nearly Four Times More People Signed Up For Obamacare Than Watch Fox News

Fox News and their viewers like to pound their chests and tout their success, but Fox can't hold a candle…

10 years ago

Bernie Sanders Delivers The GOP’s Worst Nightmare: Red Staters Who Call Healthcare a Right

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) described what Republicans fear most. On recent trip to South Carolina and North Carolina, Sanders found…

11 years ago

Obama Eviscerates Congressional Republicans as ACA Sign Ups Fly Past 8 Million

As sign ups have flown past 8 million, President Obama used a surprise press conference to demolish Republicans for being…

11 years ago

A Presidents’ Day Examination Of the Monumental Hurdles that President Obama Has Overcome

Instead of waxing philosophically on the achievements of past presidents, it is worthwhile to take stock of the current President…

11 years ago

The Supreme Court Joins The Right Wing Attempt to Replace the Constitution With the Bible

The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment…

11 years ago

How 2013 Gave Democrats a Blueprint to Retake the House

For Democrats to retake the House in 2013, they need to embrace key issues that they support and that are…

11 years ago

Republicans Are Making Sure That the Economic Recovery Only Benefits the Rich

If Americans have learned only one thing about the economic recovery, it is that Republicans will make sure the only…

11 years ago

Here Are The Facts That Republicans and The Media Aren’t Telling You About the ACA

PoliticusUSA recently sat down with a financial advisor who works with the ACA regularly to get the real story that…

11 years ago

South Carolina’s Lee Bright Wants to Replace Lindsey Graham – and the United States

Bright says, "If the Tenth Amendment won't protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the…

11 years ago

Poll Fishing: How Today’s Media Distorts Data to Drive Ratings

Recent polls have shown Barack Obama's approval rating on the decline. However, who exactly is "disapproving" of him tells the…

11 years ago

The Republican War on the ACA Is An Attack On Women

The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC's…

11 years ago

Delicious Irony: How Gattaca is Actually Rand Paul’s Ideal Society

What Rand Paul doesn't realize is that the plot of Gattaca perfectly represents his own governing philosophy. And that isn't…

11 years ago

The Insurance Industry Hates the ACA? The Insurance Industry Loves the ACA.

If you were to believe the headlines, it would appear that Blue Cross and their ilk are terrified of ACA.…

11 years ago

GOP Hypocrites Criticize The ACA Website But Stood By Bush’s Medicare Part D Roll Out

Instead of decrying the Medicare prescription plan as an abject failure, Republicans denouncing the ACA's rollout as a reason to…

11 years ago

‘Christian’ Conservatives Abuse The Judicial System In Their Latest Battle Against The ACA

Conservative Christian business owners are appealing to other conservative Christians on the Supreme Court to grant them religious immunity from…

11 years ago

IT’S TEOTWAWKI REDUX, NOT! Obamacare And The Exploitation of Technology Fear.

The right-wing uses the people's fear of new technology to try to stop "Obamacare". Many experts said that Y2K would…

11 years ago

Ted Cruz Is Just the Figurehead of The Koch/DeMint Destroy Government Conspiracy

Ted Cruz is little more than a figurehead of a much larger conspiracy whose real leaders are teabaggers Charles and…

11 years ago

Vitter Amendment – A Pill Too Vitter To Swallow

The Republican "solution" to the non-existent government exemption from the ACA actually creates a government exemption from the ACA.

11 years ago

The Unusual Suspect: The Surprising Koch Fueled Return of Edwin Meese

Why was Edwin Meese hired by the Koch Brothers to be a Tea Party strategist?

11 years ago

Republican Terrorists Have Exposed Themselves as The Traitors They Are

Republicans exposed themselves as the traitors they are because about 70% of the 86,000 civilians employed at 16 U.S. intelligence…

11 years ago

Obama Tells Republicans He Is Going To Blow Right Through Their Obamacare Opposition

President Obama told Republicans today that their opposition to Obamacare is meaningless, and he is going to blow right through…

11 years ago

Republicans Return to the Scene of the Crime and Threaten to Hold The Debt Limit Hostage

Republicans are threatening to hold the debt limit increase hostage and they can hardly wait to present their ransom demands…

12 years ago

Grover Norquist Makes a Fool Out of Himself By Demanding Reagan Era Tax Rates

Grover Norquist made a fool out himself by demanding a return to the Reagan era tax rates, which were higher…

12 years ago

The Koch Brothers Turn On Chris Christie and Warn Him About Setting Up Obamacare

The Koch Brothers handed down a warning to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for not rejecting provisions in the ACA…

12 years ago

States Offer Up Many Consequential Ballot Measures

Nearly 180 ballot measures face a vote on Tuesday. Here are a few of the most consequential initiatives to watch.

12 years ago

Mitt Romney Adds the Uninsured to His List of Americans He isn’t Concerned About

Romney has made it perfectly clear that he does not care, or worry, about nearly half of America and that…

12 years ago

The Case against Using Religious Freedom to Block Birth Control Access

As the birth control mandate went into effect this week, religious freedom arguments continue to threaten it. Here's why they're…

12 years ago

The Medical Debt of Colorado Shooting Victims Cries out for Healthcare Reform

Many victims of the Colorado shootings are facing ruinous financial debt due to expensive surgeries and rehabilitation for their wounds.

12 years ago

Republicans Wage America’s Second Civil War Over an Imaginary Loss of Freedom

An escalating trend among Republicans is instigating outrage in the population with overt assertions that President Obama threatens Americans' freedom.

12 years ago

Right Wing Pseudo-Patriots Are too Dumb To Realize Healthcare Reform is Freedom

An entire segment of the population is not intelligent enough to realize they were handed the precious gift of access…

12 years ago

Even the ‘Moderate’ Conservative at the New York Times Can’t Describe the GOP Healthcare Plan

Not even conservative water carrier David Brooks can sell the non-existent Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act.

12 years ago

Right Wing Haters for Christ Vow To Repeal the Affordable Care Act

Now that the Supreme Court ruled the Affordable Care Act constitutional, right wing so-called Christians are out in force promising…

12 years ago

America’s Flirtation with Healthcare’s Dark Side

Americans are all about community in so many different ways, so why when it comes to healthcare is everyone supposed…

12 years ago

The Republicans’ Bad Day and What it Means for America

Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they've had many bad days recently and that…

12 years ago

Mitt Romney Unveils His Healthcare Plan: Don’t Get Sick

A president Romney will allow health insurance industry to offer bare-bones coverage with higher premiums and pre-existing conditions will not…

13 years ago

Republicans See a Win-Win in Increasing America’s Suffering

Republicans have demonstrated that they will starve poor Americans, restrict women, children, and the elderly from receiving health assistance to…

13 years ago

What Would A Romney Presidency be Like? It’s Anyone’s Guess

Mitt Romney wants Americans to know what the first day of a Romney presidency would look like, based on his…

13 years ago

Seven Reasons Why Obama Is the Obvious Choice for Women

All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the…

13 years ago

Catholic Bishop Goes Into Persecution Mode – Claims Obama is Hitler

After spending 1500 years relentlessly persecuting every alternative to itself, the Catholic Church has the audacity to claim it is…

13 years ago

Freedom For Fools: Obamacare Opponents Will Pay With Their Lives

Hopefully, if the ACA is ruled unconstitutional, the first recipients of denial of coverage are those vile human beings who…

13 years ago

Debunking the GOP Propaganda: Only 34% Want Obamacare Repealed

Republicans and conservatives would like you believe that Americans hate Obamacare, but a new poll found that only 34% of…

13 years ago

Republicans Use Threats And Pseudo Terrorism To Deny 30 Million Americans Healthcare

Republicans cannot come up with one legitimate reason for denying every American healthcare so they resorted to fear-mongering and threats…

13 years ago

Republicans Pass Blame For Their Own Deficit Failures On To The Poor

Republican economic policy is responsible for a large part of the nation's deficit, but instead of taking responsibility, they are…

13 years ago

Rick Santorum is a Hateful Master of Deceit

Rick Santorum is fast setting new lows in his disdain for honesty, choosing instead the path of deceit, expressing hatred…

13 years ago

Republicans Don’t Agree On Much But They’re 100% Unified On Degrading Women

The Republican presidential candidates are all allied with the Republicans in Congress and have signaled that if elected, they will…

13 years ago

Rick Santorum Is The Antithesis Of Christ’s Teachings

Rick Santorum is a conservative, but his lack of compassion makes him the antithesis of Christ’s teachings.

13 years ago