Planned Parenthood took the fight to the halls of the U.S. Capitol, sending patients and health care providers from the key states of Ohio and West Virginia to meet with their senators to voice opposition to the health care repeal bill. The legislation — backed by Donald Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch […]

Rev. William Barber led a group of Christian and Jewish clergy to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Capitol Hill in an act of “Moral Resistance” against the deadly GOP health care repeal bill. Approximately 10 protesters, including Barber, were arrested. Call and response chants of “If we don’t get it? Shut it down!” and “What […]

Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) was forced to make a hasty retreat from a senior living facility when he was confronted by citizens about his vote for the Republican health care repeal bill. Poliquin told attendees that he would answer questions after his press conference, but as soon as the reporters turned their cameras off, he […]

The Republican health care repeal bill would be a disaster for Medicaid patients, cutting funding by at least $770 billion from Medicaid. But that’s not all the harm it would do. The proposed legislation would also allow states to squeeze people out of the system, cutting off thousands of people from services they often desperately […]

Kentucky’s only Democratic lawmaker in Congress, Rep. John Yarmuth, rallied his constituents to keep “speaking out” on health care at a packed town hall held right in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s backyard. And in return, he received a standing ovation for his staunch support of the Affordable Care Act and opposition to the Republican plan to dismantle […]

The future of the Senate Obamacare repeal bill is in grave jeopardy. Republicans hoped that by writing their bill in secret, they could blunt the political backlash against stripping health insurance from 22 million people and cutting hundreds of billions from Medicaid, but their strategy backfired. Faced with intense public opposition and an increasing number […]

Republicans are circulating a new and absurd explanation for why their health care bill grinding its way through Congress is horrible and convoluted, unpopular, and just bad. And it sure sounds a lot like a child explaining to their teacher why the dog ate their homework, except with even less credibility. They are actually trying […]

Republican Sen. Jerry Moran likely didn’t expect a big audience at his recent health care town hall in Palco, Kansas. After all, the estimated 2016 population of this small city was only 278. Yet the Kansas City Star reported that roughly 150 people — nearly half of the entire town — showed up to Moran’s event […]

The Republican push to repeal Obamacare, destroy Medicaid, and eliminate coverage for 22 million poor and sick Americans is temporarily stalled in the Senate. Facing GOP defections and intense public opposition, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded he may not have the votes to do it. Democrats are wasting no time using this window of opportunity […]

Across the country, a coalition of citizens has risen up to force Republicans to reckon with the fallout from the health care repeal bill they are trying to push through the Senate. Activists protested at the offices of Republican senators in 21 states who, instead of facing their constituents, decided to duck and cover over […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t have the guts to face his constituents and explain his disastrous health care bill, but that doesn’t stop him from going on the GOP-friendly Fox News. During a recent interview, Ryan defended his party’s plan to repeal Obamacare and give tax cuts to the rich by attacking “the left.” “I think […]

It seems a lot of Republican lawmakers just can’t seem to learn from their colleagues’ terrible and very public mistakes. When disability rights advocates arrived at Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake’s office to discuss the GOP’s health care repeal bill and cuts to Medicaid, the senator himself was apparently not in the building. Flake may […]

The Republican health care bill would almost immediately kill 1 million American jobs, another huge negative for the unpopular proposal backed by Donald Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan, and Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell. The GOP bill rolls back the Medicaid expansion enacted under Obamacare, and public health experts at George Washington University estimate that doing […]

Republican Sen. Susan Collins came away from her meetings with constituents over the holiday weekend buoyed by support for her outspoken dissent about the GOP Senate plan to repeal Obamacare and dismantle Medicaid. Unlike many of her GOP colleagues, Collins actually attended her local Fourth of July parade and talked face-to-face with Maine voters: Marched […]

After Republicans in Congress adjourned amid their failure to pass the horrific, Medicaid-busting Senate health care repeal bill, lawmakers in both chambers have continued their ongoing trend of ducking town halls and avoiding their constituents. Minnesota Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen, however, took his phobia of facing voters one step further. Not only has Paulsen refused […]

Sen. Ted Cruz is not a popular man, even in his home state of Texas. And his Republican Party’s health care repeal bill is also not popular there either. Cruz was one of the few Republicans to actually venture out in public during the Fourth of July recess. But what he found at a celebration […]

Recent polling sends a strong, unequivocal message to Republican senators in swing states: If you vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, you will likely face serious consequences in your next re-election bid. Voters in Colorado, Iowa, and North Carolina disapprove of repealing the ACA by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Even among Republican-identified voters, support for […]

In the ongoing saga of the Republican crusade to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and ostensibly replace it with something vastly inferior, it is easy to get bogged down in minutiae and numbers. But what are talking about when we talk about health care? We are talking about people, about their lives and livelihoods, about […]

As much as this administration may not like it, the press have a crucial role to play in bringing the truth and the facts to the American people. And when Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price tried to deceive the public about the impact the GOP’s health care repeal bill would have on insurance […]

Marc T. Short, the White House director for legislative affairs and a key part of Mike Pence’s political operation, attempted to minimize the non-partisan forecast of the millions of people who would lose health insurance if the Republicans’ repeal plan is implemented. On Fox News Sunday, Short argued that 7 million of the 22 million […]

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds received a special delivery from an unexpected source on Friday. In the wake of funding cuts signed by former Gov. Terry Branstad and fast-tracked by Reynolds, four Planned Parenthood clinics in that state were forced to close, leaving 14,600 Iowans without access to quality, affordable, compassionate health care. 77 percent […]

Republican senators are hiding from the American people over the 4th of July holiday, with only two of them — Jerry Moran (KS), and Bill Cassidy (LA) — scheduled to hold town hall meetings with constituents before the end of the congressional recess. The move to cut themselves off from voters comes as the GOP’s plan to […]

The Trump administration has no solid answers for the millions of Americans who could be adversely affected by the decision by Republicans to cut Medicaid benefits by billions of dollars. Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked at the (off-camera) press briefing what Trump’s position is on the $770 billion plus cuts […]

Eight thousand people in rural Nevada will lose their health insurance options as a result of Donald Trump’s engineered sabotage of the Obamacare insurance markets. The insurance carriers in the region are citing Trump’s public reluctance to pay subsidies to the companies that are owed money, as well as provisions in the Republican health care […]

After days of a “die-in” at the Denver office of Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, disabled protesters were zip-tied, removed, and arrested. The protesters had been in Gardner’s office for three days, and planned to stay there until Gardner had made a commitment to protect Medicaid spending and oppose the Republican bill to repeal Obamacare and gut […]

Despite years of threats — and dozens of votes — to repeal Obamacare, the Republican Party has no idea how to replace it with something better. In fact, their replacement plan is infinitely worse. It would kick millions of Americans off their coverage and gut critical programs like Medicaid — all to give more than […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has begun offering cash to Republican senators who are holding up passage of the destructive health care bill. McConnell has so far been forced to hold off on submitting the legislation for a final vote since he lacks the support to get it passed. The Washington Post reports that McConnell […]

Donald Trump has been caught in a new lie. Yes, another one. This time it’s about just how deep and bad the cuts to Medicaid will be if the Republicans pass their dangerous bill to repeal health care to give more than $500 billion in tax cuts to the rich. When the Congressional Budget Office […]

Carrying signs and encircling the heart of our democracy, activists on Wednesday night presented a unified front against the Republican effort to rip health care away from 22 million people. The mood at the U.S. Capitol was a mix of cautious optimism and steely determination. The rally started with a march around the Capitol, full […]

While Donald Trump claims the Medicaid cuts will be “great for everybody,” protests are intensifying against the Republican efforts to enact those cuts and to repeal Obamacare. Many see the Senate decision to delay a vote on the bill as a victory, and that victory has further empowered resistance to it. Protesters gathered at Republican […]