When conservatives talk about being “pro-life,” one has to wonder just what lives they mean. They don’t mean the 9 million kids covered by the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which Republicans in Congress just allowed to expire because they were too busy focusing on their failing Obamacare repeal plan and their tax scam giveaway to […]

Note to pop culture players: Standing up to Donald Trump is good for business. Joining the NFL, which racked up a big TV ratings weekend after Trump picked a free-speech fight with the league, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the official start of the fall television season Monday night by grabbing the biggest audience […]

Welcome to a new daily series at Shareblue Media, providing you with links to important news, interesting stories, useful information about actions of resistance — and a picture of President Barack Obama to keep you motivated. Remember when Republicans in Congress were trying to kill Obamacare again? Well, they failed. Again. Millions of Americans are […]

Time after time, Republicans in Congress have spitefully tried to take away health care from millions of the most vulnerable and sick, and time and time again, they have been smacked down by the American people. Now, the latest attempt, the Graham-Cassidy bill, has officially died without a vote. Sen Roberts leaves GOP luncheon saying […]

Republicans’ prospects of passing their universally loathed health care bill are cratering, and at a CNN policy forum, one of its chief authors, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, did nothing to improve the bill’s outlook. Joined by co-author Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders […]

So this is why Republicans feared having public debate about their never-ending attempt to repeal Obamacare and eliminate health care coverage for millions of Americans. They were afraid to face the wrath of a furious and frightened public. Monday, moments after Utah Republican Sen. Orin Hatch gaveled the Senate’s only hearing for the Graham-Cassidy bill, […]

As Republicans limp toward Wednesday’s Senate finish line in their never-ending quest to repeal Obamacare, they’re backing a bill that almost nobody wants or likes. The health care provider industry and the insurance industry have both resoundingly opposed the Graham-Cassidy bill, which would affect one-sixth of the U.S. economy. And the public rejects the bill, as well — […]

Senate Republicans are still not quite at the required 50 votes to pass their disastrous, massively unpopular Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill. But rather than try to find broad compromise or consensus, GOP leadership is instead making narrow tweaks to the bill that make it even harsher, to specifically target the votes of hard-right male senators […]

From the outset, the latest Republican health care repeal bill was the worst of all the Obamacare repeal proposals introduced this year in the Senate. The so-called Graham-Cassidy bill is now less popular than Vladimir Putin, with only 20 percent support from voters and all major doctor, patient, and insurer groups opposed. Less than half of […]

White House legislative affairs director Marc Short embarrassed himself Sunday morning when he got called out for lying about the GOP’s latest attempt to repeal and — supposedly — replace Obamacare. The Graham-Cassidy bill has been denounced by nearly every major health organization in the country. And chief among the criticisms of the legislation is […]

Just as the Trump administration sent Mike Pence out to stump for the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain announced his decision to oppose the plan, leading to more humiliation for a feckless Pence and potentially killing the legislation. While Donald Trump simply tweeted about the bill, Pence was positioned — as […]

Republicans are absolutely lying when they say the proposed Graham-Cassidy health care repeal bill doesn’t undo Obamacare’s protections for those with pre-existing conditions. The lie is so obvious that it only took about 30 seconds for a reporter to prove it. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel has been exposing this cruel provision in the legislation that Republicans […]

In the largest show of Congressional force to date surrounding the GOP’s latest zombie-like attempt to repeal Obamacare, 58 Democratic members of the House are urging Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to hold off on any Senate action until the proposed bill can be properly analyzed and debated. Specifically, they are demanding that the bipartisan […]

Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake has not read the GOP health care bill in its entirety, but one thing he knows is that some people — including some of his own constituents — will be worse off than they are now if the Graham-Cassidy bill is enacted. So of course, he’s eager to support it. […]

The Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill is still just shy of the 50 votes it needs to pass the Senate, and Republicans are getting desperate as the September 30 deadline gets nearer. One of their main targets is Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who has solidly voted against previous GOP repeal bills, but who has publicly […]

Republicans can’t have it both ways. As they try yet again to rush through a repeal of Obamacare, they are simultaneously refusing to allow public debate on the bill, while also complaining that critics of the bill don’t understand what’s in it. The hypocrisy ought to be obvious. Yet that’s exactly the kind of mendacity […]

The Graham-Cassidy health care bill Republicans are trying to ram through the Senate at the last minute is so horrible that everyone from insurance companies, to doctor and patient groups, to state public health officials, to Republican governors, to late-night comedians, have come out against it. The bill would cut health care for roughly 32 […]

GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona has long been a wildcard in Senate Republicans’ on-again, off-again attempts to repeal Obamacare. In July, McCain flew to the Capitol while undergoing treatment for brain cancer to cast the deciding vote to begin debate on Obamacare repeal, even as he condemned the lack of “regular order.” Days later, […]

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel isn’t backing down from his fight to save health care for millions of Americans in the face of Republican attacks. And Wednesday night, Kimmel widened his battle to include Fox News, as the host called out morning host Brian Kilmeade for his gaping hypocricy. It’s all part of an unfolding […]

The Graham-Cassidy bill is, by almost any measure, the cruelest and most extreme of all Republican attempts to repeal Obamacare. And comedian Jimmy Kimmel explosively highlighted the issue when he took to the air on Tuesday night to savage the bill’s authors for failing to keep their promise to protect his son with a pre-existing […]

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 […]