GOP attacks on health care could ruin their chances in November
Americans overwhelmingly say they’d vote for Democrats who support Obamacare over Republicans who want to repeal it.
By Eric Boehlert - July 23, 2018Americans overwhelmingly say they’d vote for Democrats who support Obamacare over Republicans who want to repeal it.
By Eric Boehlert - July 23, 2018Troy Balderson, who voted to deny health insurance to 500,000 Ohioans, now wants to take his extreme agenda to Congress.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 09, 2018The Republican Party has made it clear that if it keeps control of Congress, it will try yet again to take health care away from millions of Americans.
By Oliver Willis - July 05, 2018In the face of Republican inaction, the American Medical Association endorses a common-sense agenda to prevent gun violence.
By Eric Boehlert - June 13, 2018A Republican finally joined Democrats in speaking out against Trump’s latest attack on Obamacare.
By Tommy Christopher - June 13, 2018Once upon a time, these Republicans swore they’d protect people with pre-existing conditions. Now the states they represent are attacking health coverage for the sick.
By Emily Crockett - June 11, 2018Republicans voted to cut $7 billion in funding from children’s health care.
By Oliver Willis - June 08, 2018Republicans are still trying to blow up Obamacare, and it’s hurting Americans across the country.
By Eric Boehlert - June 04, 2018The Republican Party’s sabotage of Obamacare and total lack of a message on health care is further dooming its chances in November.
By Tommy Christopher - May 15, 2018As a new Ebola outbreak was declared on Tuesday, Trump called to rescind emergency outbreak funding and the White House abruptly disbanded its global health security team.
By Caroline Orr - May 12, 2018The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders issued a stinging rebuke of Trump’s plan to address prescription drug costs by pandering to the pharmaceutical industry.
By Caroline Orr - May 11, 2018Republicans in Louisiana would rather shut down nursing homes, kicking 20,000 elderly residents onto the streets, than raise taxes.
By Eric Boehlert - May 09, 2018Republicans deliberately damaged Obamacare, and now consumers have to pay the price.
By Eric Boehlert - May 07, 2018Republicans tried and failed to repeal Obamacare. Progressive Democratic candidates nationwide marked that anniversary with a renewed commitment to protecting and improving health care for all.
By Alison R. Parker - May 05, 2018Things are looking worse and worse for Ted Cruz’s re-election race, and his new pitch to voters isn’t going to help him at all.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 30, 2018After the GOP’s failure to repeal Obamacare, Republicans who were once gung-ho on the issue have quietly scrubbed references to it from their websites.
By Oliver Willis - April 14, 2018A young father shared his story of struggling to afford medical bills for his infant son, but to Trump, it was a ‘beautiful’ story about the success of his ridiculous tax scam.
By Oliver Willis - April 13, 2018If Republicans can’t even count on older white voters, they’ve got no hope this November.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 09, 2018Health care is the number one issue for voters in 2018, so Nevada Sen. Dean Heller is promising to destroy it if they re-elect him.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 06, 2018Nevadans are sick of Dean Heller choosing Trump over their own health.
By Matthew Chapman - March 21, 2018“The middle class will be priced out of insurance in about a third of America,” according to a new study.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 08, 2018Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks more than half of America are “dumbass people” for supporting an expansion of health coverage.
By Matthew Chapman - March 01, 2018The Trump administration is revamping the nation’s family planning program to prioritize abstinence-only and religious-based counseling.
By Caroline Orr - February 24, 2018Wisconsin’s firebrand Republican governor Scott Walker is in trouble in the polls, and he’s getting desperate.
By Matthew Chapman - February 23, 2018Rep. Mo Brooks still doesn’t understand how health care works.
By Tommy Christopher - February 21, 2018“Beneath the Idaho Senate.”
By Matthew Chapman - February 20, 2018Donald Trump started his Monday morning by doing something that has become a regular habit: live-tweeting Fox News. And this time it got him into international trouble. Far-right former UKIP leader Nigel Farage appeared on “Fox & Friends,” talking about Britains National Health Service, the network of public hospitals and clinics funded by a consumer tax, which is universal […]
By Matthew Chapman - February 05, 2018Nearly 100,000 people in Kentucky could lose their health care, thanks to the Trump administration.
By Matthew Chapman - January 25, 2018The Democratic senator from Ohio is furious that Republicans are now trying to use children’s health care as a bargaining chip.
By Matthew Chapman - January 22, 2018Gov. Matt Bevin tied his tongue in knots trying to explain why cutting Medicaid is actually a positive thing.
By Matthew Chapman - January 15, 2018