The Republicans’ health care bill would do drastic damage to Medicaid, and visit grievous harm on millions of Americans, including those with disabilities. When activists with the grassroots disability rights organization ADAPT showed up to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office, they were physically and violently removed by security, with some of them even dragged out […]

The American Medical Association (AMA) announced its opposition to the Republican health care bill in a letter to the leaders of the Senate. The group said it is against the bill because the legislation violates the physicians’ oath of “first, do no harm.” “The draft legislation violates that standard on many levels,” the letter states. AMA […]

Donald Trump’s senior aide Kellyanne Conway appeared on the pro-Trump Fox News to continue the administration’s attacks on Medicaid recipients. Talking to the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” a program that doubles as Trump’s mouthpiece and safe space, Conway argued that “able-bodied” Medicaid beneficiaries should simply look for work and take positions where they can […]

Republican Sen. Deb Fischer invited the people of Nebraska to meet with her as part of her “Strong Families, Strong Communities Tour” throughout the state. Just one little catch: Not all Nebraskans were welcome. For weeks, she had advertised the tour as simply an opportunity to meet with the senator and hear her thoughts on “strong […]

Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of ending the opioid epidemic, but the recently unveiled Republican health care bill threatens to make the deadly crisis even worse. And despite warnings from his own advisory council, Trump is still pushing for its passage. Described as the “defining public health challenge of our time,” the opioid crisis […]

In the fight over access to affordable, quality health care, it is easy to get bogged down in the political and to forget about the personal. But the personal is political, and it is inescapably intertwined with all of the jargon-laden arguments over facts and figures. And as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi made urgently clear, those […]

Echoing their approach toward the civilian population in the House and Senate health care bills, the Trump administration is now floating the idea of cutting payments to disabled veterans. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin declared in a forum that the current veterans disability system was “designed from 50, 60 or 70 years ago,” which would […]

When I awoke to the shocking results of the 2016 election on the morning of November 9, the first pangs of despair I felt were for the imperiled fate of Obamacare in the hands of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. As a physician, I was immediately worried not only about my job security, but also […]

Local elections matter, and no one can attest to that more than Nevada’s Mike Sprinkle. In 2016, the Reno firefighter and paramedic ran for his third term in the Nevada Assembly. Hopes were high, but Sprinkle and his fellow Democrats faced an uphill road, given that Republicans controlled Nevada’s Assembly, Senate, and the governor’s mansion. […]

You would think Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would have more compassion for children who rely on publicly funded programs for their health care. Over the years, he has repeatedly referenced his childhood battle against polio in interviews and in his memoir. As McConnell told PBS, “My first memory in life was the last visit […]

Nothing shows the utter cruelty of the Republican plan to destroy health care like the images of patients dragged from their wheelchairs and arrested by Capitol Police, just for protesting this horrible bill. The pictures and videos that emerged from the protest outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office were shocking and sickening. Disabled patients […]

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will force a vote on the GOP’s massively unpopular and harmful health care repeal bill as soon as next week. That leaves little time for senators to gather input from the people they work for. But rather than rushing home to talk to their constituents, every single GOP senator appears […]

The reaction to the long-awaited secret Senate bill to destroy health care and give tax cuts to the rich is not going well for Republicans. No one was expecting it to be good news, but it turns out that the Senate version — crafted in secret, by a group of 13 Republican men — is […]

Donald Trump’s budget director said months ago that he did not believe diabetics deserve health insurance. Now, in their recently revealed health care bill, Senate Republicans are working to enshrine this callous mindset into the law. Senate Republicans have finally released the text of their health care bill, devised and negotiated in private by 13 […]

Former President Barack Obama tore into the health care bill finally revealed by Senate Republicans in a Facebook post. Arguing well beyond the 140-character Twitter rants that Donald Trump has relied on, Obama dismantled the Republican argument for dismantling health care reform, and pointed out the devastating effect it would have if enacted into law. […]

Elizabeth Warren did not mince words when she took to the Senate floor to decry the brutal Medicaid cuts in the Republican health care repeal bill. “These cuts are blood money,” she said. “People will die.” Republicans have made it clear they do not want to hear from Democrats. Or women. Or even Medicaid patients who […]

Medicaid recipients showed up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office to protest the Republicans’ disastrous health care repeal bill. These patients would be especially harmed by the bill that includes deep cuts to Medicaid. But just as Democrats and the public at large were excluded from the Senate GOP’s process of crafting the bill, […]

The super secret Senate GOP health care bill is finally out, and it’s not as bad as everyone had feared. It’s worse. The bill targets the elderly, the working-class, people with disabilities, people with pre-existing conditions — and of course Planned Parenthood. Not only does the bill “defund” Planned Parenthood, by blocking it from participating […]

The Trump White House is again pushing reporters to turn off their cameras and audio recording devices and return to the continuing farce that they have made of the daily press briefing. In an advisory released by the White House, the briefing for June 22 was marked as “Off Camera (not for broadcast or audio).” […]

Republican senators may not want to talk to their constituents about Trumpcare, but folks sure want to talk to them. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio is still on the fence about the health care repeal bill, because of possible cuts to Medicaid and concerns about the opioid crisis in his state. But for over a month […]

It seems nothing can get Senate Republicans to budge from their stubborn secrecy regarding their health care repeal bill. The American people disapprove of the GOP’s actions, and their own Democratic colleagues have tried in vain to demand involvement in the process. But Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are determined to keep their […]

Health insurer Anthem Inc. announced that it is being driven out of the Obamacare health exchanges in Wisconsin and Indiana as a result of Donald Trump’s attacks on the industry and health care system. In a press release, Anthem said, “Planning and pricing for ACA-compliant health plans has become increasingly difficult due to a shrinking […]

The Republican plan to undo Obamacare and strip millions of their health insurance is incredibly unpopular, even in extremely conservative congressional districts. Vox reports on a new poll from the University of Maryland of voters in those areas finds that 63 percent of them reject the legislation backed by Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, […]

The Trump administration has relentlessly attacked Planned Parenthood for months. From gutting federal funding for family planning through Title X, to barring Planned Parenthood specifically from participating in any federal programs, to pushing the Republicans’ health care repeal plan that punishes women for being women, this White House has tried at every turn to hobble the health […]

Arizona Sen. John McCain can always be counted on for a good, angry quote about his fellow Republicans. But when it comes to actually standing up to his party, the self-proclaimed maverick is anything but. Now McCain is joining some of his fellow Republican senators in feigning outrage at how the all-male group of 13 […]

Donald Trump has made another admission behind closed doors about the health care initiative he and his party strongly back. CNBC reports that during a closed-door meeting with top technology CEOs, Trump admitted the Senate health care legislation needs “more heart.” Those comments echo Trump’s characterization of the House health care bill as “mean.” Despite […]

Senate Republicans appear to still be dead set on forcing through their secretive health care bill, despite vocal and fervent opposition. Americans across the country disapprove of the GOP’s plan, which Republican leadership is trying to jam through without involvement by or hearings with Democrats, and without even the input of women from their own […]

Senior aide to Donald Trump Kellyanne Conway appeared within the friendly confines of Fox News to complain that Democrats in Congress are still refusing to help the administration’s efforts to destroy Obamacare. Conway lamented that the response from Democrats thus far has been “hashtag resistance.” She noted that Trump has not been able to convince […]

Our nation’s patient advocacy groups are experts in the health care challenges our family members face. They understand the complexities of the medical issues with which they contend and the system they must navigate to get the care they need. Republicans say they embrace the notion of “patient-centered care” — health care that serves the […]

Vice President Mike went to Congress to meet with his former fellow conservative House members and demand their support on the bill to repeal Obamacare. And when he blasted them for withholding their support, they cried. According to Politico, Pence crashed what was supposed to be a secret meeting of the House’s uber-conservative House Freedom […]