“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.”
If there was ever a moment when we should put Trump’s erratic behavior on the back burner and focus on a really important policy issue, now would be it.
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
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.
Poor Mike Pence. Trump’s tantrums over the repeated failed efforts to pass increasingly barbaric versions of Trumpcare, must be getting on his nerves.
“Every major health organization in this country … thinks that their proposal is a disaster,” Sanders said, standing right next to Sens. Graham and Cassidy.
The latest attempt by the GOP to replace Obamacare has nothing to do with providing coverage for American citizens. Members of the Republican Party are simply trying to save their political careers as opposed to saving the lives of the constituents that they serve.
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.
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.
Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act aren’t just impractical, but they are cruel.
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.
“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.”
“[The process for the Cassidy-Graham bill] is better but it’s not what the Senate is supposed to be doing,” he said. “Is it better to be guilty of murder or train robbery?”
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is sounding the alarm to all Americans that Trumpcare is back and this time, they want to take away healthcare from even more Americans.
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.
The move by top Democrats sets up a stark contrast between themselves and Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election.
The White House wants to see the plan approved by Congress, but not even GOP leadership is interested in pushing the measure through.
It probably didn’t take long for Tom Price to regret his decision to participate in the baseball tradition.
The poll released Monday showed Trump’s approval rating at the lowest level in any survey released since he took office.
Six months into the Trump administration, the GOP tune is changing as the president’s incompetence, corruption, and unfitness has thrown the entire Republican agenda into a dumpster and set it ablaze.
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.
Trump repeated the lie that the Affordable Care Act is “imploding” and issued a threat to end payments that keep health care costs down.
“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.
Outside of the White House and the halls of Congress, it’s clear that people of all political persuasions recognize how devastating this repeal plan would be to millions of Americans.
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.
Republicans are admitting that they don’t know what they’re voting on – and the legislation could still pass.
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.
Every major piece of legislation is fundamentally more than a collection of policy provisions, it is a reflection of the deepest moral values of our country.
“President Trump, I will tell you, you will get it, don’t worry about it,” Trump told the crowd aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford.
This is a President of the United States who is unwilling or unable to accept criticism or responsibility for his own failures.
The Speaker said more Americans will be without insurance because it’s what they want, not because the GOP health care plan is bad.
The president and his GOP allies in Congress just can’t accept the fact that America isn’t buying what they’re selling.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) used an appearance on ABC’s The View to thank every American who stood up, fought back, and refused to allow Republicans to take healthcare away from 22 million Americans.
“These protests have been relentless,” Maddow said. “They’ve had a huge victory just tonight.”
The American people rate Trump’s performance on health care worse than any other issue facing the country.
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.
Eight to 10 Republican senators have serious concerns about Republican healthcare legislation to dismantle and replace Obamacare, moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins, who opposes the bill, said on Sunday.
If Republicans in Congress wanted to demonstrate that indeed all lives mattered to them they would not be making drastic cuts to Medicaid, the largest insurance provider in the country.
The best way to get under Donald Trump’s very thin skin is to mock and ridicule him, and it appears Democrats have no problem doing just that.
The Republican health care bill will cause at least 22 million people to lose their insurance, and others will have to pay more while getting less, but according to the Americans For Tax Fairness, the top 8 insurance corporations will get a $72 billion tax cut.
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.
After Sens. Rand Paul (KY) and Susan Collins (ME) both announced that they would vote against moving the health care bill forward, Democrats need just one more Republican no vote to firmly kill the legislation and save Obamacare.
The latest version of Trumpcare contains an exemption for Senate Republicans so that they will have more benefits and better care than every other American.
“I think it’s very difficult when you have this overwhelming barrage of new information that unfolds every few days. I think it’s obvious.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is trying to force through the health care bill that will take coverage away from 22 million Americans by keeping the Senate in session until the third week of August or Trumpcare is passed.
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.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to quickly pass a secret health care bill that would end coverage for 22 million Americans hit more snags, as the vote on the bill was delayed for an additional week because Republicans still don’t have the votes to pass it.
If there is an upside for Toomey, it’s that Trump’s constant social media outbursts are distracting from the disastrous piece of legislation he’s trying to push through the Senate.
The fact that Republicans think they could pull one past the former Secretary of State on a complicated policy issue like health care shows just how lost they are.
On almost every level, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be harder if they did it without a replacement plan.
The gap between what Trump says is in the GOP health care bill and what’s actually in it is incredibly wide, meaning Trump probably hasn’t even read the thing.
“Healthcare is working along very well…we’re gonna have a big surprise. We have a great Healthcare package,” President Trump told the White House pool in the Roosevelt Room Wednesday afternoon.
When asked what that meant, Trump answered according to the White House pool report sent to PoliticusUSA, “We’re going to have a great, great surprise.”
Warren Buffett has given Trumpcare the perfect nickname. Buffett is calling Trumpcare the Relief for the Rich Act.
The American people are close to a victory on healthcare as Republicans are saying they will begin negotiations with Democrats on a bipartisan healthcare bill if they can’t get enough Republican votes to pass the Senate healthcare bill by Friday.
“It has now been more than 150 days of this new administration … and they have yet to pass a single substantive piece of legislation of any kind.”
“The longer that it’s out there the more it’s going to stink. People are going to figure out what they’re trying to do to the country.”
First, Trump said how important it is to pass the health care bill, and then he immediately said it’s “okay” if it fails.
As of Tuesday, there are only 35 committed yes votes for Senate health care bill. The bill could end up still getting 50 votes, but with mass opposition from conservative and moderate Republicans, along with unified Democrats, this legislation could be blocked resoundingly.
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.
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.
The legislation won’t just hurt millions of Americans who are covered under Medicaid or through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges.
The CBO score is in for the Senate health care bill and the results are not good for the American people as 22 million Americans would lose their coverage under Trumpcare.
Senate Republicans changed their health care bill on Monday to force people to maintain their Trumpcare coverage or face a penalty of having to go without coverage for six months.
Forty economists, including six Nobel Prize winners, have destroyed every major Republican lie about the healthcare bill in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) confirmed on ABC’s This Week that the Senate version of the healthcare bill makes even deeper cuts to Medicaid than the bill that passed the House.
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to tell a giant lie when she claimed that people aren’t going to be tossed off of Medicaid under Trumpcare, but ABC’s George Stephanopoulos corrected the record and called her out for making false statements.
This command explicitly states that we are not to endanger or harm the lives of other people in any way and also includes the imperatives to help and support people in all of life’s needs.
A Center for American Progress analysis found that the GOP health plan will lead to as many as 27,700 more deaths.
The super PAC that Vice President Mike Pence is allied with is getting ready to launch a seven-figure attack ad buy on Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada.
“Seventy-five million Americans all have the same health insurance, and the big health bill that the Republicans unveiled in the Senate today takes a meat ax to that health insurer.”
The spontaneous demonstrations by pro-ACA activists shows how politically toxic this issue has become for Republicans as they prepare to dismantle Obamacare.
Perhaps, the most un-American element to the Republican health care bill is that it would take health insurance away from 441,300 veterans who are on Medicaid.
Republican Senators are so cowardly that they are running away from reporters when they are asked about the Senate health care bill.
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.
It isn’t a surprise, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell kept his health care bill a secret because it is even worse than the House passed Trumpcare bill.
Republicans are trying to insulate Donald Trump from the potential failure of the health care bill in the Senate by keeping the President far away from the legislation.
The zeal among some Democrats, liberals, and progressives for the Georgia House special election were always emotional. Some are still dealing with an Election Night 2016 hangover and were desperate for a win, but the win that they should be looking for is to defeat Trump on healthcare, not a victory that would net them 1/435th of the House.
There is a report that seven current Senate Republicans are no votes on the secret health care bill, while three others are undecided. Topher Spiro of the Center For American Progress tweeted: I'm hearing at least 7 no's coming out of the lunch: Capito, Collins, Cruz, Lee, Murkowski, Paul, Sasse. Heller, Cassidy, Portman undecided. https://t.co/xrFtqXk1Yk…
While meeting with tech CEOs, Trump again criticized the secret Republican health care bill, but the one thing that he hasn’t done is refuse to sign it if it passes through Congress.
The Senate will vote next week on a secret health care bill without holding a hearing. However, what has leaked is that the bill will throw more people off of their health insurance than the House-passed version of Trumpcare.
“We have not had one hearing, not one open discussion. And I should think that every Republican should be embarrassed by this, and I know that many of them are embarrassed by it.”
Because of uncertainty caused by Trump and Republicans, at least one swing state will see Obamacare health care premiums spike by more than 40 percent.
As Democrats continue to hold the floor in the US Senate as part of their effort to stall the Republican health care bill, Senate Democratic Leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) got Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) to admit that Obamacare wasn’t negotiated in secret, but had 25 days of hearings.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is supporting Democrats who are calling for the Senate to be shut down to stop the Republicans from keeping their health care bill a secret.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell turned down an offer to meet with more than 15 patient advocacy groups to keep the details of his healthcare bill a secret from people with preexisting conditions.
Senate Democrats are considering shutting down all business in the Senate next week to bring into the open the secret Republican health care bill.
After years of false complaints from Sen. Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republican Senators that the ACA was negotiated in secret, Senate Democrats have turned the tables on the now Majority Leader by calling out their refusal to hold a hearing on Trumpcare with an invitation to Senators only meeting next week.
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) doesn’t know what’s in the Senate health care bill he’s going to vote for either, so he’s just as much a victim of Republican hubris as you, except he will get to keep his Obamacare and of course he has access to the bill. But still. In a world where it’s your fault that Republicans hate you, you can understand how Hatch is the victim.
If you thought being in an employer plan would protect you from the evils of Trumpcare, you are sadly mistaken. Trumpcare V2.1 will impose annual limits on as many as 27 million Americans and lifetime limits on as many as 20 million. And it’s not just in states with waivers, which is to say your Democratic governor can’t protect you.
President Trump didn’t stop at calling his own health care bill mean. While meeting with Republican Senators, Trump also called the bill a son of a b*tch and told Republicans to spend more money.
Donald Trump may have put the final nail in the coffin of the Republican health care bill by telling Senators that he thought the House passed bill was “mean,” and that he wants the Senate bill to be more generous.
Trump was supposed to give a statement on health care, so he showed up for 5 minutes in Wisconsin, lied about the Affordable Care Act then ran back to Air Force One to resume hiding from the Russia scandal.
Senate Republicans are going to be done writing their health care bill tonight, but they are refusing to release it to the public yet because they think it would be stupid to let the American people see it this soon.
An analysis of tracking polls since March has found a net 17 point swing towards Democrats on health care as Trumpcare is causing people to flee the Republican Party.
Trumpcare is starting to go down in a ball of flames in the Senate, as Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he wouldn’t bet on ACA repeal and replace passing, and that he is backing a short-term bill to stabilize the insurance markets.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation health care tracking poll contained devastating news for Republicans on health care. 84% of Americans and 71% of Republicans want funding to continue for the Medicaid expansion, which means that Republicans have shot themselves in the feet on health care.
Republican Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) admitted to a North Carolina news station that it’s unlikely Republicans will reach a deal to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Republicans say they are just two months away from getting enough votes to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Hundreds of enraged constituents showed up Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) Louisiana town hall to make their opposition to Trumpcare known in this red state.
Trump is making a move that clearly panders to his base of voters, but it’s a move that will hurt millions of women in America and make abortion more frequent.