The Republican Party is like a dog with a bone, except the bone happens to be the health and welfare of millions of Americans. The latest attempt to rollback Obamacare manages to be far more cruel and more devastating to the fabric of the nation than its precedents. As Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut […]

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley could have offered any number of statements, however misguided, to explain his support for the Republicans’ devastating repeal bill. Instead, Grassley made a candid confession about why his party’s pushing so hard. “Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the […]

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel has become public enemy number one with conservatives just hours after his monologue exposed the cruelty of the latest Republican health care bill. Kimmel called out Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), co-sponsor of the Cassidy-Graham bill to repeal Obamacare, after he appeared on Kimmel’s show in May and made a series of promises […]

One the most appalling features of the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill that Senate Republicans are trying to ram through without debate is its impact on sick people. The bill would totally wipe out all Obamacare protections, and let insurers jack up prices based on pre-existing illness. According to the Center for American Progress, asthma would […]

Late-night host Jimmy Kemmel delivered a memorable smackdown of the Republicans’ renewed, zombie-like attempt to yet again take away health care from millions of Americans. Specifically, Kimmel on Tuesday night set his sights on Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, who’s sponsoring the so-called Cassidy-Graham bill, which is actually worse and more draconian than the Obamacare repeal […]

In their latest Obamacare repeal attempt, Republicans have made clear that they do not care about regular order or Senate tradition, and are blowing up the schedule to get the nightmarish Graham-Cassidy bill passed. Senate Republicans have organized a couple of sham hearings, but will move forward without a full CBO score and no time […]

Highlighting the extraordinary lengths one of Louisiana’s Republican senators is willing to go to act against his state’s self-interests, Louisiana’s top health care official eviscerated Sen. Bill Cassidy for championing a bill that the GOP is trying to jam through Congress before the end of the month. “The legislation you’ve introduced this past week gravely […]

For the second time this year, Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada has been faced with protecting the health care of his constituents or protecting his own Senate seat from a Trump-fueled primary opponent. For the second time this year, Heller has chosen to protect himself and hang his constituents out to dry. And they’re […]

What connection does the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee have with pending health care legislation that Republicans are trying to ram through Congress? Absolutely none. But that’s not stopping the GOP from setting up what appears to be a sham hearing scheduled for next week to debate a pending health care bill. Even […]

After making moves toward a bipartisan, publicly debated health care bill in the wake of their spectacular failure in July, Republicans unexpectedly started pushing to pass an even worse Obamacare repeal bill just before the deadline in two weeks, once again shutting out Democrats and only pretending to schedule a hearing. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy […]

After trying and failing — and trying and failing and trying and failing again — to repeal Obamacare, you would think Republicans would let it go and finally move on. Instead, they have quietly been plotting another attempt to destroy health care in America. According to Andy Slavitt, a former aide to President Barack Obama, […]

On the same day that Sen. Bernie Sanders and more than one dozen Democratic senators announced their plans to sponsor a  “Medicare for All” health insurance bill, a White House reporter asked why Donald Trump isn’t supporting it, given his previous support of “insurance for everybody.” Trump and Republicans, of course, failed spectacularly to repeal […]

The Republican Party has fallen into disarray and confusion in the wake of their dramatic failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act in July. But the experience has only emboldened Democrats, who are now ready to take the next step and fight for fully universal health care. “Health care goes to the core of our […]

Karen Handel ran a stunningly close race against Democrat Jon Ossoff for a special election in very red Georgia’s even redder 6th Congressional District. A hallmark of her campaign was her blatant willingness to flat-out lie to the voters, and it seems that winning the election gave Handel confirmation that lying is the way to go. […]

Republican efforts in Congress to kill Obamacare crashed and burned spectacularly in July, due largely to the relentless pressure of furious constituents who would have lost coverage. But Donald Trump, who long promised he would do away with the law, is still determined to get rid of it. On Thursday, Trump administration officials announced that […]

In sharp commentary, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos connected Donald Trump’s decision to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio to his praise of white supremacists. As Ramos put it succinctly, with his actions over recent weeks, “Trump is making racism something normal.” Trump chose to announce the pardon of Arpaio, who was convicted of racially profiling Latinos, right […]

The Republican Party is still reeling from the backlash of their disastrous plan to strip low-income people of health insurance, which came under fire for being written behind closed doors with no input from constituents. But many Republicans appear to have learned nothing from the experience, like Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker. At a $40-a-ticket Chamber […]

No good deed done under President Barack Obama goes unpunished by his petty and jealous successor. Donald Trump, whose bizarre obsession with the far more popular and successful Obama, is world-famous — not to mention highly destructive — is intent on undoing Obama’s legacy, regardless of the harm his obsession inflicts. His latest target? A […]

Donald Trump’s threat to sabotage Obamacare would generate a huge backlash for him and Republicans, according to a new poll. The poll, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that moving forward, 60 percent of the public believes that “Trump and Republicans in Congress are responsible for any problems with the ACA.” They also found that […]

He might represent the reddest, most conservative district in the state of Georgia, but even Republican Rep. Doug Collins couldn’t escape the public wrath surrounding the GOP’s attempt to repeal Obamacare. At a town hall meeting during the August recess this week, Collins was chastised, confronted, and occasionally shouted down for nearly 80 minutes by […]

Politically, the Republican Party’s mangled attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare continues to rattle key players, with Donald Trump on Wednesday lashing out at GOP congressional leaders for failing to get the job done. But more importantly, Trump’s incompetence, and now inaction, regarding health care is spiking premium costs. Bewildered insurance companies are looking to […]

Republicans have a Planned Parenthood problem. Specifically, they have a problem with speaking only in falsehoods when they talk about Planned Parenthood. As part of the hostility to reproductive freedom that is so deeply ingrained in the GOP — and the Trump administration — many conservatives freely mislead the public about what Planned Parenthood does […]

Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner hadn’t held a public, in-person town hall for over year. Perhaps, like his colleague Paul Ryan, he was worried he would be hit with anger and frustration from constituents worried about losing their health care coverage. As it turns out, that’s precisely what happened. During a joint town hall with […]

Republicans have threatened to repeal Obamacare for seven years. And they’ve been gunning for Planned Parenthood a lot longer than that. Yet despite their obsessive dedication to these dangerous goals — and their control of both Congress and the White House — the GOP failed miserably last week, when the repeal bill died in the […]

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price admitted that Donald Trump’s petulant threat to halt payments for Obamacare subsidies would harm, rather than help, people. Price, a former Republican congressman, has been the administration’s point person on their failed attempt to repeal health care reform. On ABC’s This Week, Price was asked by host Martha […]

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway complained that Senate Republicans, and not Donald Trump, are to blame for the failure of the administration’s push to repeal Obamacare. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Conway expressed frustration with her own party’s ineffectiveness — continuing her boss’s drumbeat of complaints, who has now taken to Twitter multiple times to […]

Likely no one expected Donald Trump to accept any responsibility for the failure of the GOP’s plan to repeal Obamacare. And thus, certainly no one was surprised when he took to Twitter Saturday morning to cast blame around as widely as he could. He lashed out at Senate Republicans, particularly Majority Leader Mitch McConnell; at […]

As the Republican-controlled Congress prepares to take their annual month-long summer break, they will leave Washington, D.C., having failed to do the one thing they have been promising to do for seven years: repeal Obamacare. With a humiliating defeat on the Senate floor, Republicans will return home with literally no legislative accomplishments in six months. […]

A dead-of-night vote saw the dramatic failure of Senate Republicans’ fraudulent “skinny repeal,” which even they knew would be a disaster and tried to pretend they were only voting for so that the House could change everything in it. The vote was a huge victory for the resistance and already has conservative pundits predicting Obamacare […]

President Barack Obama celebrated the survival of his signature health care law, as Donald Trump and the Republican Party licked their wounds after their humiliating failure to repeal Obamacare. The popular former commander in chief took the high road, despite the attempt by his unpopular successor and the Republican Party to cut Medicaid by over […]