Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are in a world of hurt now that their plan to repeal Obamacare has failed disastrously. Again. Trump is raging on Twitter, Vice President Mike Pence is in hiding, senior counselor Kellyanne Conway is insulting her fellow Republicans, calling them “Loch Ness monsters of the swamp.” And now they’ve […]

Instead of celebrating a long-coveted victory to repeal of Obamacare, Vice President Mike Pence is nowhere to be seen, after the latest repeal bill failed in the Senate. The daily schedule released by Pence’s office does not include a single public event. That stands in sharp contrast to the very active public schedule Pence had […]

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to step down from his leadership position after the humiliating failure of the Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare. The collapse of repeal is the culmination of a 7-year-long odyssey for Republicans, in which they tried everything to undo the legislation, even challenging its constitutionality […]

Donald Trump bragged that he would repeal Obamacare “immediately” if he became president. That didn’t happen. Late Thursday night, the Senate bill absurdly nicknamed the “skinny repeal” failed in what should be the absolute last attempt to repeal a popular seven-year-old bill that has been upheld by the Supreme Court twice and that a majority […]

Republicans released the text of the health care repeal bill they drafted in secret — and then scheduled a vote for two hours later. While the bill was originally pitched as a “skinny” repeal, the version ultimately released is a robust gutting of the American health care system that defunds Planned Parenthood and threatens coverage […]

Donald Trump is no longer behaving like the “reality TV” president. His latest actions seem to be straight out of a mob drama. After Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted against the health care repeal bill championed by Trump and many of her GOP colleagues, Trump petulantly lashed out at her on Twitter. But his […]

Mike Pence has a seriously disturbing view of freedom. Sitting down for a prime-time interview with Fox News host and favorite of neo-Nazis Tucker Carlson, Pence offered an offensive take on the devastating result of the health care repeal bill that he, Donald Trump, and congressional Republicans are insistently pushing and which would cause millions of […]

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said that the Trump administration wants the health care industry to change its business practices. Specifically, he said they should emulate the widely hated airline and telecom industries. Speaking to CNN, Scaramucci tried to talk up the effort by Trump and his Republican allies in Congress to force through […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was interrupted by protesters in the Senate gallery as he began the process to consider the Republican Party’s unpopular and destructive health care repeal bill. The protesters repeatedly chanted “kill the bill,” “don’t kill us” and “shame,” prompting a call for the sergeant-at-arms to come in and remove them […]

Despite the fact that it is, as The New York Times notes, a “still-unclear plan,” Republicans in the Senate are planning to move ahead with a procedural vote Tuesday to take up the debate on their disastrous health care repeal plan. Even as some Republicans are openly stating that they don’t even know what they […]

Donald Trump has done virtually nothing to persuade Americans to support his health care repeal plan. He has stayed away from the public and the press, and the majority of what he says on Twitter about health care is a stream of lies and insults directed at Democrats and even his own party. So in […]

Republicans really, really, really want Americans to think their health care “plan” would not be a disaster for the country. Unfortunately for them, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said otherwise. Repeatedly. The House and Senate versions would kick millions off their insurance, increase the cost of health care, and allow insurers to refuse coverage to patients […]

It was easy to feel demoralized after the 2016 election, and even more so when the final numbers proved that it was Hillary Clinton whom the majority of the nation wanted as their next president. But it was also an opportunity, a real-life “Choose your own adventure” story: Would you give in to despair and […]

While Donald Trump recently learned that health care reform is harder than he thought it would be, his senior adviser Kellyanne Conway is still saying it should be a piece of cake. Appearing on the always-friendly Fox network, Conway insisted that it “should be easy” to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Trump’s “plan” — […]

Ever since the defeat of the Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill, Donald Trump has been erratically flip-flopping between saying he will just sabotage Obamacare, demanding Republicans take up full repeal, and threatening Republican senators. It is clear that Trump does not have any kind of strategy. Furthermore, he may never have had one. He seems to […]

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its score on the repeal-only option for health care preferred by Mike Pence, and it is even more of a disaster than the replacement plan the GOP has failed to push through. As Republicans became concerned that the so-called Better Care Act, with its draconian cuts to Medicaid — […]

“Very confused” perfectly summarizes how most people who are following the Republicans’ efforts to repeal Obamacare are feeling. At the start of the week, Trump tweeted, “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!” The very next day, […]

Donald Trump threatened Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) with an offer he hopes the endangered senator doesn’t refuse. Hosting Republicans at the White House to talk about the health care proposal that is near death, Trump tried to humiliate Heller in full view of national television cameras and his fellow Republicans. Heller has so far come […]

Republicans thought nothing of drafting their health care repeal plan with zero input from women, including those in their own party. Now those women are having their say, and it’s a simple one: “No.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been frantically struggling to find a way to force through some kind of attack on […]

Fox News Channel is having a hard time watching the Republican presidency they were key in building collapse on the weight of its own incompetency, and has begun lashing out at fellow conservatives for their role in the health care repeal debacle. On Monday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the woefully unpopular plan would […]

When even die-hard Republican loyalist and former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer is bashing the GOP’s failure on health care, you know it’s bad. Fleischer, the unflappable press secretary who infamously warned Bush’s critics to “watch what they say,” offered a stinging assessment of the Senate Republicans’ failure to pass their disastrous bill […]

One day after the Republican Party’s ill-fated effort to repeal and replace Obamacare collapsed in the Senate, an initiative that would have gutted spending for Medicaid support, Republicans in the House unveiled a new budget outline that would drastically reduce Medicare spending if passed into law. The House outline is just the latest in the […]

As opposition from the public against the callous health care repeal plan grows louder, the Republican Party is fraying at the seams. And the tension is increasingly on embarrassing display. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was already in a precarious situation. Since he is jamming the bill through, with no hearings and no input from a single Democratic […]

The fight about health care is really about whether or not people who can afford to pay for insurance have a greater right to stay alive than those who cannot. It’s that simple, and the American people know it. On Tuesday, Americans in 39 states will engage in more than 120 actions to demand that […]

Despite endlessly championing “family values,” many Republican lawmakers have a decidedly anti-family aversion to including maternity and OBGYN care in insurance plans. Women were left out of the drafting process for the GOP’s health care repeal plan, surely part of the reason it includes such baffling elements like allowing states to drop maternity coverage if they […]

Try as they might to deny or ignore it, it is no secret that the Republican Party’s health care plan is massively unpopular. Lawmakers have encountered vocal, vehement resistance to the bill from coast to coast, and across the political spectrum. And support for the Affordable Care Act continues to thrive, even in red states […]

Just as Republican leaders feared, sending senators home for the July 4th recess without having voted on the Republican health care bill did nothing to improve the image of the controversial legislation currently pending in the Senate. In fact, Americans think less of it now. Republican lawmakers were confronted at every turn over the July break […]

One of the most disastrous new changes Senate Republicans made to their Obamacare repeal bill in the latest draft is the addition of the so-called “Consumer Freedom” amendment authored by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Under the amendment, insurers would only have to offer one policy covering essential benefits and pre-existing conditions — and could sell […]

The Senate bill to repeal Obamacare is wildly unpopular and has been hemorrhaging support from Republican senators as constituents speak out. On Thursday, Senate Republicans unveiled a new draft of the bill, which is as terrible as ever. It includes the “Cruz amendment” to let insurers sell barebones plans without guaranteed issue for pre-existing conditions, […]

Desperate at this point to collect enough support to even get the Republican Party’s health care bill to the Senate floor for a vote, let alone with enough backing to pass it, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is using billions in funds to try to win over reluctant GOP senators. Even if that means writing […]