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  • Trump Asks Why Congress, Insurance Companies Are Exempt from Obamacare Failings

    07/31/2017 10:33:04 AM PDT · by Rockitz · 32 replies
    Breitbart.com ^ | 31 Jul 2017 | Adam Shaw
    President Trump took to Twitter Monday to ask why insurance companies and Congress are not being hurt by the failings of Obamacare just as the American people are being hit. Trump started the day by noting that the unpopular healthcare law is “hurting people” and asked why it isn’t also hurting insurance companies, and also why Congress is exempt. Trump had previously threatened to end what he called “bailouts” for insurance companies and Congress after the failing of the GOP-led Senate to pass either a healthcare reform bill, a flat-out Obamacare repeal, or a so-called “skinny repeal” of Obamacare. The...
  • Ron Desantis: Congress Will Kill Obamacare If Trump Kills Lawmakers' Subsidies

    07/31/2017 7:27:34 AM PDT · by Helicondelta · 29 replies
    Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., argued Monday that President Trump should follow through on his weekend threat and cancel all subsidies that federal lawmakers get to buy insurance under Obamacare. He also said killing lawmakers' subsidies might be the best way to kill Obamacare. "I think if he moves swiftly on it, I think you'd see a lot of these members and senators, they would want to work to repeal Obamacare very quickly," DeSantis said on Fox News. Trump tweeted Saturday that if Congress can't pass a healthcare bill, "bailouts for members of Congress will end very soon!" Trump reiterated the...
  • Trump threatens to end health care 'bailouts' for insurers, lawmakers

    07/29/2017 1:39:00 PM PDT · by ColdOne · 41 replies
    foxnews.com ^ | 7/29/17 | Alex Pappas
    President Trump on Saturday threatened to end health care “bailouts” for insurers and lawmakers in Washington as he continues to push Congress to pass legislation repealing ObamaCare. “If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!” Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon.
  • Trump wants to declare war on the health insurance industry

    07/30/2017 10:00:48 PM PDT · by be-baw · 32 replies
    Axios ^ | July 30, 2017 | Jonathan Swan David Nather
    President Trump is spoiling for war against the health insurance industry, and his administration made two threats over the weekend that insurers say would wreck the markets: On Twitter, the President threatened to end so-called "bailouts" for health insurance companies — referring to payments the government makes to insurers so they can make insurance less costly for low-income people (as they're required to do). Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price suggested on ABC's "This Week" that he might make more people exempt from the requirement to buy health insurance. Insurers say this could make premiums even costlier. Why this...
  • The Executive Orders That End Obamacare - Once and For All

    07/30/2017 5:32:09 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 55 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | July 30, 2017 | Wayne Allyn Root
    Republican Senator John McCain just singlehandedly killed the repeal of Obamacare. Now it’s time for President Trump to act. It’s time for President Trump to expose McCain and the rest of Congress for the frauds and hypocrites they are. It’s time for two Executive Orders that have the power to change everything.This is how President Trump makes "The House of Cards" collapse. This is how President Trump ends Obamacare once and for all.Executive Order #1: President Trump should issue an immediate Executive Order forcing every member of Congress to use the same healthcare plan as the rest of us. Let...
  • GOP fears political fallout after health care ‘epic fail’

    07/30/2017 3:15:16 AM PDT · by Libloather · 50 replies
    AP News ^ | 7/30/17 | STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT
    NEW YORK (AP) — Weary Republicans in Washington may be ready to move on from health care, but conservatives across the United States are warning the GOP-led Congress not to abandon its pledge to repeal the Obama-era health law — or risk a political nightmare in next year’s elections. The Senate’s failure this past week to pass repeal legislation has outraged the Republican base and triggered a new wave of fear. The stunning collapse has exposed a party so paralyzed by ideological division that it could not deliver on its top campaign pledge. After devoting months to the debate and...
  • The hustle is on to insure Chicagoans

    07/29/2017 11:18:36 AM PDT · by KeyLargo · 14 replies
    Crains ^ | July 27, 2017 | Nona Tepper
    The hustle is on to insure Chicagoans Community groups are scrambling to figure out how to connect Chicagoans with health insurance in the wake of the Trump administration no longer funding outreach efforts in 18 cities, including Chicago. The federal money was used to help enroll people into plans sold on the Obamacare public health insurance exchanges, and to usher the uninsured into the expanded Medicaid program in Illinois. Combined with consumer confusion over
  • Health Care: What Happens Now?

    07/28/2017 5:50:53 PM PDT · by Signalman · 12 replies
    Dick Morris ^ | 7/28/2017 | Dick Morris
    The Senate rejection of repeal of ObamaCare, coupled with its obvious failure, leaves Americans in a hell of a mess. Because of the inherent problems in the ObamaCare law, premiums will continue to skyrocket and outpace subsidies. More insurance firms will refuse to participate and people will be stuck. In addition, President Trump is likely to take two actions that are good policies but will worsen the situation: 1. He will probably direct his agencies, including the IRS, to stop enforcing the requirement that everybody buy insurance. Last year, six million people ran afoul of the requirement and had to...
  • Obamacare Socialized Medicine Rationing and the Elderly

    07/28/2017 10:25:09 AM PDT · by rktman · 11 replies
    ileanajohnson.com ^ | 7/26/2017 | ILEANA JOHNSON
    Healthcare is not a right, it is a service provided by doctors and nurses who went to school to learn how to care for a sick human being. And they expect to be compensated for their services. Surely you would not expect your mechanic who learned how to fix your car, repair it for free, because it is your right to have a running vehicle. Health insurance is not a right either, it is also a service. Can you control what an insurance company does and what pricing systems they use? Can you control what government does now that they...
  • Senate 'skinny repeal' of Obamacare falls apart on Senate floor after McCain defects

    07/28/2017 2:30:40 AM PDT · by C19fan · 71 replies
    Yahoo ^ | July 28, 2017 | Liz Goodwin and Andrew Bahl
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s bid to pass a stripped down repeal of Obamacare on a party-line vote failed dramatically in the early hours of Friday when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., joined two other Republican holdouts and all the Democrats to vote against the measure.
  • John McCain is an piece of Crap

    07/27/2017 10:40:41 PM PDT · by JPJones · 121 replies
    vanity
    Sorry for the vanity.
  • Skinny Repeal Failed

    07/27/2017 10:40:04 PM PDT · by Pinkbell · 130 replies
    July 28, 2017 | Pinkbell
    Sorry if there is a thread; I didn't see it. McCain, Collins, and Murkowski voted No. Republicans spent 7 years promising this, and they couldn't get it done. The Republicans don't like Trump all that much, but he is willing to fulfill their promise that they made. Meanwhile, McCain, the GOP hero, helped kill their promise.
  • Eric Cantor: If You’ve Got Anger Working for You, Let It Be” [How GOP ... aided rise of Trump]

    07/27/2017 2:25:42 PM PDT · by HokieMom · 24 replies
    Washingtonian ^ | Published on July 26, 2017 | Elaina Plott
    Snip There’s no such narrative around Eric Cantor, the former Republican House majority leader from Richmond who was spectacularly ousted in his 2014 primary by a no-name economics professor. Let’s back up a moment. Remember the summer of 2013, when the “Defund Obamacare Tour” drove the news cycle all through Congress’s August recess? The town halls organized by the political arm of the Heritage Foundation enlivened the base and furthered what had been the GOP’s core message since 2010—that Obamacare was bad and, if Americans helped Republicans hold both chambers, it could be repealed. Cantor helped create that perception. Earlier...
  • Cantor comes clean, admits he didn’t believe his own ACA rhetoric

    07/27/2017 6:28:07 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 44 replies
    www.msnbc.com ^ | Updated 07/26/17 11:37 AM | By Steve Benen
    For several years, in his capacity as House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor helped lead the charge on repealing “Obamacare.” Put Republicans in charge, the Virginian told voters, and they’d dismantle the Affordable Care Act. [SNIP] The former GOP leader in the House talked to the Washingtonian’s Elaina Plott and conceded that his Republican Party is in a tough spot – parts of the conservative base expect the party to repeal the ACA, because that’s what they were promised – in part because of promises he and his colleagues made that they never intended to keep. Asked if he feels partly...
  • LIVE: Voting on clean repeal RIGHT NOW

    07/26/2017 12:51:07 PM PDT · by GIdget2004 · 174 replies
    CSPAN ^ | 07/26/2017 | CSPAN 2
    Democrats waived the point of order, so only 50 votes are needed, not 60. They are that convinced that it will fail.
  • Moderate Senators Shoot Down Rand Paul’s Clean Obamacare Repeal Bill

    07/26/2017 2:13:45 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 68 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | july 26,2017 | Sean Moran
    Sen. Paul’s bill failed 45-55, seven moderate Republican senators voted against the clean repeal bill. The Senate continues to try to coalesce around an Obamacare repeal compromise bill. Paul called the bill the “Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017.” Sen. Paul consistently opposed the leadership’s healthcare bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA); the BCRA failed to pass through a procedural vote Tuesday night in the Senate. Paul offered his clean Obamacare repeal bill that would repeal large sections of Obamacare.
  • Senate Votes Down Broad Obamacare Repeal

    07/25/2017 7:24:08 PM PDT · by Innovative · 80 replies
    NY Times ^ | July 25, 2017 | THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR
    The Senate voted narrowly on Tuesday to begin debate on a bill to repeal major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but hours later, Republican leaders suffered a setback when their most comprehensive plan to replace President Barack Obama’s health law fell far short of the votes it needed. The Tuesday night tally needed to reach 60 votes to overcome a parliamentary objection. Instead, it fell 43-57. The fact that the comprehensive replacement plan came up well short of even 50 votes was an ominous sign for Republican leaders still grappling with a formula to pass final health care legislation...
  • Rand Paul on the State of the Obamacare Repeal Battle

    07/25/2017 3:22:42 PM PDT · by PPSman · 9 replies
    EconomicPolicyJournal.com ^ | July 25, 2017 | Robert Wenzel
    Senate Republicans voted today to advance to floor debate on their efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote. As the vote began, lefty protesters in the Senate gallery shouted "kill the bill" and "shame, shame, shame!" Senator Rand Paul put out this video update following today's vote:
  • Vanity - Vote "YES" To move Obamacare Repeal & Replace today.

    07/25/2017 4:35:24 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 16 replies
    Today the Senate will cast their votes on a bill that will allow open debate on the Repeal & Replacement of the failed, Obamacare health bill. Every one of the 100 Senators should cast a "Yes" vote to move this bill to open debate and amendments. That includes Republican, Senators, Rand Paul/Susan Collins and, every Democrat Senator in the Senate. Even seriously ailing Republican, Senator, John McCain is returning to Washington, DC to cast a "Yea" vote. Any Senator that does cast a "Yes" vote for moving this debate along, means they continue to support the failed Obamacare "monster". We,...
  • Big day for HealthCare. After 7 years of talking, we will soon see whether or not Republicans...

    07/25/2017 4:14:08 AM PDT · by SMGFan · 26 replies
    Real Donald Trump twitter account ^ | July 25, 2017 | President Donald Trump
    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!