Republicans really, really, really want Americans to think their health care “plan” would not be a disaster for the country. Unfortunately for them, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said otherwise. Repeatedly. The House and Senate versions would kick millions off their insurance, increase the cost of health care, and allow insurers to refuse coverage to patients […]

It was easy to feel demoralized after the 2016 election, and even more so when the final numbers proved that it was Hillary Clinton whom the majority of the nation wanted as their next president. But it was also an opportunity, a real-life “Choose your own adventure” story: Would you give in to despair and […]

While Donald Trump recently learned that health care reform is harder than he thought it would be, his senior adviser Kellyanne Conway is still saying it should be a piece of cake. Appearing on the always-friendly Fox network, Conway insisted that it “should be easy” to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Trump’s “plan” — […]

Ever since the defeat of the Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill, Donald Trump has been erratically flip-flopping between saying he will just sabotage Obamacare, demanding Republicans take up full repeal, and threatening Republican senators. It is clear that Trump does not have any kind of strategy. Furthermore, he may never have had one. He seems to […]

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its score on the repeal-only option for health care preferred by Mike Pence, and it is even more of a disaster than the replacement plan the GOP has failed to push through. As Republicans became concerned that the so-called Better Care Act, with its draconian cuts to Medicaid — […]

“Very confused” perfectly summarizes how most people who are following the Republicans’ efforts to repeal Obamacare are feeling. At the start of the week, Trump tweeted, “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!” The very next day, […]

Donald Trump threatened Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) with an offer he hopes the endangered senator doesn’t refuse. Hosting Republicans at the White House to talk about the health care proposal that is near death, Trump tried to humiliate Heller in full view of national television cameras and his fellow Republicans. Heller has so far come […]

Republicans thought nothing of drafting their health care repeal plan with zero input from women, including those in their own party. Now those women are having their say, and it’s a simple one: “No.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been frantically struggling to find a way to force through some kind of attack on […]

Fox News Channel is having a hard time watching the Republican presidency they were key in building collapse on the weight of its own incompetency, and has begun lashing out at fellow conservatives for their role in the health care repeal debacle. On Monday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the woefully unpopular plan would […]

When even die-hard Republican loyalist and former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer is bashing the GOP’s failure on health care, you know it’s bad. Fleischer, the unflappable press secretary who infamously warned Bush’s critics to “watch what they say,” offered a stinging assessment of the Senate Republicans’ failure to pass their disastrous bill […]

One day after the Republican Party’s ill-fated effort to repeal and replace Obamacare collapsed in the Senate, an initiative that would have gutted spending for Medicaid support, Republicans in the House unveiled a new budget outline that would drastically reduce Medicare spending if passed into law. The House outline is just the latest in the […]

As opposition from the public against the callous health care repeal plan grows louder, the Republican Party is fraying at the seams. And the tension is increasingly on embarrassing display. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was already in a precarious situation. Since he is jamming the bill through, with no hearings and no input from a single Democratic […]

The fight about health care is really about whether or not people who can afford to pay for insurance have a greater right to stay alive than those who cannot. It’s that simple, and the American people know it. On Tuesday, Americans in 39 states will engage in more than 120 actions to demand that […]

Despite endlessly championing “family values,” many Republican lawmakers have a decidedly anti-family aversion to including maternity and OBGYN care in insurance plans. Women were left out of the drafting process for the GOP’s health care repeal plan, surely part of the reason it includes such baffling elements like allowing states to drop maternity coverage if they […]

Try as they might to deny or ignore it, it is no secret that the Republican Party’s health care plan is massively unpopular. Lawmakers have encountered vocal, vehement resistance to the bill from coast to coast, and across the political spectrum. And support for the Affordable Care Act continues to thrive, even in red states […]

Just as Republican leaders feared, sending senators home for the July 4th recess without having voted on the Republican health care bill did nothing to improve the image of the controversial legislation currently pending in the Senate. In fact, Americans think less of it now. Republican lawmakers were confronted at every turn over the July break […]

One of the most disastrous new changes Senate Republicans made to their Obamacare repeal bill in the latest draft is the addition of the so-called “Consumer Freedom” amendment authored by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Under the amendment, insurers would only have to offer one policy covering essential benefits and pre-existing conditions — and could sell […]

The Senate bill to repeal Obamacare is wildly unpopular and has been hemorrhaging support from Republican senators as constituents speak out. On Thursday, Senate Republicans unveiled a new draft of the bill, which is as terrible as ever. It includes the “Cruz amendment” to let insurers sell barebones plans without guaranteed issue for pre-existing conditions, […]

Desperate at this point to collect enough support to even get the Republican Party’s health care bill to the Senate floor for a vote, let alone with enough backing to pass it, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is using billions in funds to try to win over reluctant GOP senators. Even if that means writing […]

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 […]