It seems a lot of Republican lawmakers just can’t seem to learn from their colleagues’ terrible and very public mistakes. When disability rights advocates arrived at Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake’s office to discuss the GOP’s health care repeal bill and cuts to Medicaid, the senator himself was apparently not in the building. Flake may […]

The Republican health care bill would almost immediately kill 1 million American jobs, another huge negative for the unpopular proposal backed by Donald Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan, and Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell. The GOP bill rolls back the Medicaid expansion enacted under Obamacare, and public health experts at George Washington University estimate that doing […]

Republican Sen. Susan Collins came away from her meetings with constituents over the holiday weekend buoyed by support for her outspoken dissent about the GOP Senate plan to repeal Obamacare and dismantle Medicaid. Unlike many of her GOP colleagues, Collins actually attended her local Fourth of July parade and talked face-to-face with Maine voters: Marched […]

After Republicans in Congress adjourned amid their failure to pass the horrific, Medicaid-busting Senate health care repeal bill, lawmakers in both chambers have continued their ongoing trend of ducking town halls and avoiding their constituents. Minnesota Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen, however, took his phobia of facing voters one step further. Not only has Paulsen refused […]

Sen. Ted Cruz is not a popular man, even in his home state of Texas. And his Republican Party’s health care repeal bill is also not popular there either. Cruz was one of the few Republicans to actually venture out in public during the Fourth of July recess. But what he found at a celebration […]

Recent polling sends a strong, unequivocal message to Republican senators in swing states: If you vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, you will likely face serious consequences in your next re-election bid. Voters in Colorado, Iowa, and North Carolina disapprove of repealing the ACA by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Even among Republican-identified voters, support for […]

In the ongoing saga of the Republican crusade to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and ostensibly replace it with something vastly inferior, it is easy to get bogged down in minutiae and numbers. But what are talking about when we talk about health care? We are talking about people, about their lives and livelihoods, about […]

As much as this administration may not like it, the press have a crucial role to play in bringing the truth and the facts to the American people. And when Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price tried to deceive the public about the impact the GOP’s health care repeal bill would have on insurance […]

Marc T. Short, the White House director for legislative affairs and a key part of Mike Pence’s political operation, attempted to minimize the non-partisan forecast of the millions of people who would lose health insurance if the Republicans’ repeal plan is implemented. On Fox News Sunday, Short argued that 7 million of the 22 million […]

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds received a special delivery from an unexpected source on Friday. In the wake of funding cuts signed by former Gov. Terry Branstad and fast-tracked by Reynolds, four Planned Parenthood clinics in that state were forced to close, leaving 14,600 Iowans without access to quality, affordable, compassionate health care. 77 percent […]

Republican senators are hiding from the American people over the 4th of July holiday, with only two of them — Jerry Moran (KS), and Bill Cassidy (LA) — scheduled to hold town hall meetings with constituents before the end of the congressional recess. The move to cut themselves off from voters comes as the GOP’s plan to […]

The Trump administration has no solid answers for the millions of Americans who could be adversely affected by the decision by Republicans to cut Medicaid benefits by billions of dollars. Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked at the (off-camera) press briefing what Trump’s position is on the $770 billion plus cuts […]

Eight thousand people in rural Nevada will lose their health insurance options as a result of Donald Trump’s engineered sabotage of the Obamacare insurance markets. The insurance carriers in the region are citing Trump’s public reluctance to pay subsidies to the companies that are owed money, as well as provisions in the Republican health care […]

After days of a “die-in” at the Denver office of Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, disabled protesters were zip-tied, removed, and arrested. The protesters had been in Gardner’s office for three days, and planned to stay there until Gardner had made a commitment to protect Medicaid spending and oppose the Republican bill to repeal Obamacare and gut […]

Despite years of threats — and dozens of votes — to repeal Obamacare, the Republican Party has no idea how to replace it with something better. In fact, their replacement plan is infinitely worse. It would kick millions of Americans off their coverage and gut critical programs like Medicaid — all to give more than […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has begun offering cash to Republican senators who are holding up passage of the destructive health care bill. McConnell has so far been forced to hold off on submitting the legislation for a final vote since he lacks the support to get it passed. The Washington Post reports that McConnell […]

Donald Trump has been caught in a new lie. Yes, another one. This time it’s about just how deep and bad the cuts to Medicaid will be if the Republicans pass their dangerous bill to repeal health care to give more than $500 billion in tax cuts to the rich. When the Congressional Budget Office […]

Carrying signs and encircling the heart of our democracy, activists on Wednesday night presented a unified front against the Republican effort to rip health care away from 22 million people. The mood at the U.S. Capitol was a mix of cautious optimism and steely determination. The rally started with a march around the Capitol, full […]

While Donald Trump claims the Medicaid cuts will be “great for everybody,” protests are intensifying against the Republican efforts to enact those cuts and to repeal Obamacare. Many see the Senate decision to delay a vote on the bill as a victory, and that victory has further empowered resistance to it. Protesters gathered at Republican […]

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 […]