After trying and failing — and trying and failing and trying and failing again — to repeal Obamacare, you would think Republicans would let it go and finally move on. Instead, they have quietly been plotting another attempt to destroy health care in America. According to Andy Slavitt, a former aide to President Barack Obama, […]

On the same day that Sen. Bernie Sanders and more than one dozen Democratic senators announced their plans to sponsor a  “Medicare for All” health insurance bill, a White House reporter asked why Donald Trump isn’t supporting it, given his previous support of “insurance for everybody.” Trump and Republicans, of course, failed spectacularly to repeal […]

The Republican Party has fallen into disarray and confusion in the wake of their dramatic failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act in July. But the experience has only emboldened Democrats, who are now ready to take the next step and fight for fully universal health care. “Health care goes to the core of our […]

Karen Handel ran a stunningly close race against Democrat Jon Ossoff for a special election in very red Georgia’s even redder 6th Congressional District. A hallmark of her campaign was her blatant willingness to flat-out lie to the voters, and it seems that winning the election gave Handel confirmation that lying is the way to go. […]

Republican efforts in Congress to kill Obamacare crashed and burned spectacularly in July, due largely to the relentless pressure of furious constituents who would have lost coverage. But Donald Trump, who long promised he would do away with the law, is still determined to get rid of it. On Thursday, Trump administration officials announced that […]

The Republican Party is still reeling from the backlash of their disastrous plan to strip low-income people of health insurance, which came under fire for being written behind closed doors with no input from constituents. But many Republicans appear to have learned nothing from the experience, like Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker. At a $40-a-ticket Chamber […]

No good deed done under President Barack Obama goes unpunished by his petty and jealous successor. Donald Trump, whose bizarre obsession with the far more popular and successful Obama, is world-famous — not to mention highly destructive — is intent on undoing Obama’s legacy, regardless of the harm his obsession inflicts. His latest target? A […]

Donald Trump’s threat to sabotage Obamacare would generate a huge backlash for him and Republicans, according to a new poll. The poll, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that moving forward, 60 percent of the public believes that “Trump and Republicans in Congress are responsible for any problems with the ACA.” They also found that […]

He might represent the reddest, most conservative district in the state of Georgia, but even Republican Rep. Doug Collins couldn’t escape the public wrath surrounding the GOP’s attempt to repeal Obamacare. At a town hall meeting during the August recess this week, Collins was chastised, confronted, and occasionally shouted down for nearly 80 minutes by […]

Politically, the Republican Party’s mangled attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare continues to rattle key players, with Donald Trump on Wednesday lashing out at GOP congressional leaders for failing to get the job done. But more importantly, Trump’s incompetence, and now inaction, regarding health care is spiking premium costs. Bewildered insurance companies are looking to […]

Republicans have a Planned Parenthood problem. Specifically, they have a problem with speaking only in falsehoods when they talk about Planned Parenthood. As part of the hostility to reproductive freedom that is so deeply ingrained in the GOP — and the Trump administration — many conservatives freely mislead the public about what Planned Parenthood does […]

Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner hadn’t held a public, in-person town hall for over year. Perhaps, like his colleague Paul Ryan, he was worried he would be hit with anger and frustration from constituents worried about losing their health care coverage. As it turns out, that’s precisely what happened. During a joint town hall with […]

Republicans have threatened to repeal Obamacare for seven years. And they’ve been gunning for Planned Parenthood a lot longer than that. Yet despite their obsessive dedication to these dangerous goals — and their control of both Congress and the White House — the GOP failed miserably last week, when the repeal bill died in the […]

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price admitted that Donald Trump’s petulant threat to halt payments for Obamacare subsidies would harm, rather than help, people. Price, a former Republican congressman, has been the administration’s point person on their failed attempt to repeal health care reform. On ABC’s This Week, Price was asked by host Martha […]

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway complained that Senate Republicans, and not Donald Trump, are to blame for the failure of the administration’s push to repeal Obamacare. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Conway expressed frustration with her own party’s ineffectiveness — continuing her boss’s drumbeat of complaints, who has now taken to Twitter multiple times to […]

Likely no one expected Donald Trump to accept any responsibility for the failure of the GOP’s plan to repeal Obamacare. And thus, certainly no one was surprised when he took to Twitter Saturday morning to cast blame around as widely as he could. He lashed out at Senate Republicans, particularly Majority Leader Mitch McConnell; at […]

As the Republican-controlled Congress prepares to take their annual month-long summer break, they will leave Washington, D.C., having failed to do the one thing they have been promising to do for seven years: repeal Obamacare. With a humiliating defeat on the Senate floor, Republicans will return home with literally no legislative accomplishments in six months. […]

A dead-of-night vote saw the dramatic failure of Senate Republicans’ fraudulent “skinny repeal,” which even they knew would be a disaster and tried to pretend they were only voting for so that the House could change everything in it. The vote was a huge victory for the resistance and already has conservative pundits predicting Obamacare […]

President Barack Obama celebrated the survival of his signature health care law, as Donald Trump and the Republican Party licked their wounds after their humiliating failure to repeal Obamacare. The popular former commander in chief took the high road, despite the attempt by his unpopular successor and the Republican Party to cut Medicaid by over […]

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 […]