The Republican health care repeal bill is an absolute disaster, especially the $772 billion in Medicaid cuts. But don’t tell that to Donald Trump. He thinks those cuts “will be great for everybody.” Seriously. Asked about Medicaid cuts in Senate health care bill, Pres. Trump tells @jonkarl: “This will be great for everybody” https://t.co/lDpaTPbXdf pic.twitter.com/BOvWjt9KQP […]

It’s a huge mistake — huge — for Republicans to go forward with their plan to repeal Obamacare, kick at least 22 million Americans off insurance, and gut Medicaid to give $541 billion in tax cuts to the rich. And the numbers prove it. Lots of numbers. A mere 17 percent of Americans approve of […]

Donald Trump does not know anything about health care. He thinks insurance costs $15 a month. He also thinks the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare has nothing to do with taxes, even though the Senate version includes a $541 billion tax cut for the rich. But according to The New York Times, in Trump’s “all-hands meeting” […]

Senate Republicans kept the details of their health care repeal bill a secret for as long as they could. No wonder, since the plan was revealed to be just as callous and harmful to vulnerable people — and as friendly to the bank accounts of the wealthy — as was to be expected from Majority […]

More than 1.4 million Americans are receiving nursing home or other long-term care paid for by Medicaid. One of them is my father. My father is now 77 years old and has a rare form of dementia. When he became unable to care for himself in his home, I took him into my home and […]

As Senate Republicans continue to barrel ahead with their rushed and reckless health care repeal bill, their Democratic colleagues continue to sound the alarm about the dangers of the plan, and the need to fight back. And one Democratic lawmaker in particular has made it clear she will let nothing keep her from joining that […]

Staffers for Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, who represents Colorado, turned up the heat on protesters who showed up at his office to oppose the Senate health care bill. Temperatures in Colorado Springs, where Gardner’s office is located, hit a high of 90 degrees, but protester “Jessica Lawyer” said the senator’s staff “won’t let us leave […]

The one thing that matters to Republicans when it comes to their health care bill is that it repeals Obamacare. It doesn’t matter that the Senate’s version of the bill will kick 22 million people off their health coverage. It doesn’t matter that they are gutting Medicaid — the program on which 20 percent of […]

One of the biggest lies Republicans are telling about their dangerous health care plan is that millions of Americans simply do not want to have health care. In an interview with Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade, Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed the finding of the Congressional Budget Office that under the Senate’s version of the bill, 22 […]

Six constituents of Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito were arrested Monday at her office in Charleston, West Virginia, after performing a sit-in to protest the GOP plan to repeal health care coverage. The group went to Capito’s office hoping to convince the senator to vote against the bill, with a sign saying “Senator Capito: Whose side are you on? […]

Donald Trump refused to answer questions from the media at his Rose Garden press event with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event continues an ongoing lockdown of press access that the Trump team has engineered over the last several weeks. According to HuffPost reporter S.V. Dáte, Trump avoided questions that were shouted out about […]

The Republicans’ health care bill would do drastic damage to Medicaid, and visit grievous harm on millions of Americans, including those with disabilities. When activists with the grassroots disability rights organization ADAPT showed up to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office, they were physically and violently removed by security, with some of them even dragged out […]

The American Medical Association (AMA) announced its opposition to the Republican health care bill in a letter to the leaders of the Senate. The group said it is against the bill because the legislation violates the physicians’ oath of “first, do no harm.” “The draft legislation violates that standard on many levels,” the letter states. AMA […]

Donald Trump’s senior aide Kellyanne Conway appeared on the pro-Trump Fox News to continue the administration’s attacks on Medicaid recipients. Talking to the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” a program that doubles as Trump’s mouthpiece and safe space, Conway argued that “able-bodied” Medicaid beneficiaries should simply look for work and take positions where they can […]

Republican Sen. Deb Fischer invited the people of Nebraska to meet with her as part of her “Strong Families, Strong Communities Tour” throughout the state. Just one little catch: Not all Nebraskans were welcome. For weeks, she had advertised the tour as simply an opportunity to meet with the senator and hear her thoughts on “strong […]

Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of ending the opioid epidemic, but the recently unveiled Republican health care bill threatens to make the deadly crisis even worse. And despite warnings from his own advisory council, Trump is still pushing for its passage. Described as the “defining public health challenge of our time,” the opioid crisis […]

In the fight over access to affordable, quality health care, it is easy to get bogged down in the political and to forget about the personal. But the personal is political, and it is inescapably intertwined with all of the jargon-laden arguments over facts and figures. And as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi made urgently clear, those […]

Echoing their approach toward the civilian population in the House and Senate health care bills, the Trump administration is now floating the idea of cutting payments to disabled veterans. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin declared in a forum that the current veterans disability system was “designed from 50, 60 or 70 years ago,” which would […]

When I awoke to the shocking results of the 2016 election on the morning of November 9, the first pangs of despair I felt were for the imperiled fate of Obamacare in the hands of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. As a physician, I was immediately worried not only about my job security, but also […]

Local elections matter, and no one can attest to that more than Nevada’s Mike Sprinkle. In 2016, the Reno firefighter and paramedic ran for his third term in the Nevada Assembly. Hopes were high, but Sprinkle and his fellow Democrats faced an uphill road, given that Republicans controlled Nevada’s Assembly, Senate, and the governor’s mansion. […]

You would think Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would have more compassion for children who rely on publicly funded programs for their health care. Over the years, he has repeatedly referenced his childhood battle against polio in interviews and in his memoir. As McConnell told PBS, “My first memory in life was the last visit […]

Nothing shows the utter cruelty of the Republican plan to destroy health care like the images of patients dragged from their wheelchairs and arrested by Capitol Police, just for protesting this horrible bill. The pictures and videos that emerged from the protest outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office were shocking and sickening. Disabled patients […]

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will force a vote on the GOP’s massively unpopular and harmful health care repeal bill as soon as next week. That leaves little time for senators to gather input from the people they work for. But rather than rushing home to talk to their constituents, every single GOP senator appears […]

The reaction to the long-awaited secret Senate bill to destroy health care and give tax cuts to the rich is not going well for Republicans. No one was expecting it to be good news, but it turns out that the Senate version — crafted in secret, by a group of 13 Republican men — is […]

Donald Trump’s budget director said months ago that he did not believe diabetics deserve health insurance. Now, in their recently revealed health care bill, Senate Republicans are working to enshrine this callous mindset into the law. Senate Republicans have finally released the text of their health care bill, devised and negotiated in private by 13 […]

Former President Barack Obama tore into the health care bill finally revealed by Senate Republicans in a Facebook post. Arguing well beyond the 140-character Twitter rants that Donald Trump has relied on, Obama dismantled the Republican argument for dismantling health care reform, and pointed out the devastating effect it would have if enacted into law. […]

Elizabeth Warren did not mince words when she took to the Senate floor to decry the brutal Medicaid cuts in the Republican health care repeal bill. “These cuts are blood money,” she said. “People will die.” Republicans have made it clear they do not want to hear from Democrats. Or women. Or even Medicaid patients who […]

Medicaid recipients showed up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office to protest the Republicans’ disastrous health care repeal bill. These patients would be especially harmed by the bill that includes deep cuts to Medicaid. But just as Democrats and the public at large were excluded from the Senate GOP’s process of crafting the bill, […]

The super secret Senate GOP health care bill is finally out, and it’s not as bad as everyone had feared. It’s worse. The bill targets the elderly, the working-class, people with disabilities, people with pre-existing conditions — and of course Planned Parenthood. Not only does the bill “defund” Planned Parenthood, by blocking it from participating […]

The Trump White House is again pushing reporters to turn off their cameras and audio recording devices and return to the continuing farce that they have made of the daily press briefing. In an advisory released by the White House, the briefing for June 22 was marked as “Off Camera (not for broadcast or audio).” […]