The Republican Party is still clinging to its secret health care repeal plan, despite the fact that the bill is massively unpopular. Millions of people would be harmed by the bill’s passage, and a new report shows that it would also lead to the loss of nearly one million jobs. But none of that has dissuaded […]

The way Senate Republicans are trying to push through their super secret bill to repeal health care is egregious for a number of reasons. But their exclusion of women from the process is especially odious. The Senate version of the bill is being written in secret, by a group of 13 Republican men and no women. […]

Americans really do not approve of the job Donald Trump is doing. And that is especially true when it comes to his handling of health care. In a new poll from Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, filled with terrible numbers for Trump — including a stunning 65 percent who think he has little or no respect […]

One of the few details that has leaked from the secret GOP Senate meetings on repealing Obamacare is that Senate Republicans — just like Speaker Paul Ryan and his House colleagues — want to eliminate the Medicaid expansion. That means 14 million people in 31 states and D.C. would lose coverage if the GOP bill becomes law. […]

Senate Republicans are continuing to negotiate their health care repeal in complete secrecy, behind closed doors, with no amendments and no Democratic input. From the outset, the GOP working group was also criticized for including 13 men and no women. Increasingly, their exclusion of women does not seem like an accident, given the way women in […]

Democrat Ron Wyden, the senior senator from Oregon, has four words of advice for Americans concerned about the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare: “This is go time.” “I can’t remember a more urgent need with respect to health care,” Wyden said in an exclusive interview with Shareblue. The time for the millions of Americans whose lives […]

As the Senate prepares to pass an Obamacare repeal bill in secret, Capitol hill reporters were told Tuesday they can no longer film interviews with senators in the hallway, as they’ve been doing every day for years. The new conditions are striking. Not only does the senator being interviewed have to consent in advance, but the Senate Rules Committee […]

After House Speaker Paul Ryan forced through a nightmarish Obamacare repeal bill that would strip 23 million people of health care and send insurance markets in much of the country into a death spiral, Senate Republicans immediately tried to disavow the bill and position themselves as the grown-ups. “We’re writing a Senate bill and not passing the […]

While the fired former director of the FBI testified to the Senate that Donald Trump is a liar who attempted to obstruct justice and is unconcerned about Russia trying to hack our democracy, the White House tried to focus on “infrastructure week.” The highlights of “infrastructure week,” according to White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway? “Infrastructure […]

There’s a strain of thought that Republicans in Congress will stick with Donald Trump despite the heartburn, because he’s helping to finally enact the privatized trickle-down objectivist America of their dreams. The problem with that logic is that Trump isn’t doing that.  Set aside the fact that Trump couldn’t explain conservative philosophy if you promised him three […]

While everyone was paying attention to the explosive allegations in James Comey’s testimony, Senate Republicans are quietly trying to seize their chance to fast-track Obamacare repeal. No one can say with certainty what the finished Senate bill will look like — because it is a secret. The bill is being negotiated behind closed doors by a “working […]

During her first debate with Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District race, Republican Karen Handel tried and failed to defend her troubling record of cutting funding for breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood. She disingenuously claimed that, while serving as the vice president for public policy at Susan G. Komen For the Cure, she […]

Since Donald Trump assumed office, Republicans at every level have attacked health care coverage for the poor and sick. The House GOP wants to kick 23 million people off their insurance. Meanwhile, Republican states like Kentucky and Texas have been trying to gut health services, and in Ohio, 70,000 people will lose their coverage after […]

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield will pull out of the health exchange set up in Ohio by the Affordable Care Act, leaving 18 counties in that state without an insurance option and hurting about 10,500 people. In a statement to the Dayton Daily News, the company directly blamed the Trump administration and congressional Republicans […]

Republicans in the Senate have been saddled with the unpopular, toxic health care bill passed by their House counterparts, and it is causing major problems in their efforts to build a health care bill of their own. The Hill reports that Senate Republican aides say that legislation is not yet drafted, and that Republican leaders […]

California Rep. Darrell Issa, like most of his fellow House Republicans, voted for the disastrous bill to repeal Obamacare and force 23 million people to lose their health coverage. But according to Issa, under the bill he supports, people won’t really lose insurance — even though that is exactly what the Congressional Budget Office reported. Instead, according […]

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is a fairly typical Republican. Like the rest of his party, he is eager to deprive millions of Americans access to affordable health care they would not have without Obamacare. Maybe his eagerness is based on the fact that he has absolutely no idea how health insurance works or what it […]

Very few of the Republicans who voted to repeal Obamacare and kick 23 million people off their health insurance are brave enough to face their constituents at town halls. The few who have done so have made ridiculous claims as they desperately attempted to fend off anger from the audience, such as Rep. Raúl Labrador of Idaho, […]

Rep. John Lewis took to the floor of the House of Representatives to express passionate, heartfelt, moral opposition to the Republican health care repeal plan. Lewis told us not so long ago, “I will not give up. I will not give in. I will continue to stand up. Speak up. And speak out.” He said he would […]

President Obama released a statement marking the seventh anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The former president also used his statement to sharply rebuke the ongoing Republican activity designed to repeal the law, engineered by Donald Trump and Paul Ryan. Obama makes clear that “any changes” should “make […]

Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and most of their Republican colleagues are still enthusiastically championing their plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that it has proven to be an utter mess from the very beginning. And the updated review of the plan by the Congressional Budget Office does nothing whatsoever […]

One of the key features of the American Health Care Act, the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare, is the conversion of the Medicaid program into a block grant for the states. Disguised as choice and flexibility for governors, the real-world effect of this idea would be to reduce the program’s funding, limiting its current ability […]

Republicans in the House of Representatives are preparing for a morning vote on the latest, more cruel version of their healthcare plan, one which strips away protections for preexisting conditions, yet exempts themselves from their own bill. While they may just squeak through with a razor-thin margin, this is an awfully big risk for them […]

In the health care debate, the only thing that is arguably worse than the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare are the ways in which Republicans are attempting to sell the plan to the American people. They began by ignoring the fact that millions will lose insurance, then moved on to asserting that insurance “is not really the end […]

As of March 1st, I have health coverage for the first time in four years, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. I am 52 years old. I started working when I was 16 and have been self-supporting for almost my entire adult life. Yet, during a temporary period of hardship, I lived in states […]

According to the Congressional Budget Office, repealing the Affordable Care Act will result in 32 million people losing their health insurance in the first ten years, and to varying degrees, Republicans freely acknowledge that their plan will leave people out. As angry and fearful constituents flood Republican town halls across the country to oppose the repeal of Obamacare, […]

Obamacare is increasingly popular, and Republicans are increasingly desperate to conceal their plans to repeal it — most recently going so far as to hide draft legislation in a sealed room in the basement of the U.S. Capitol. While at least one Republican on Capitol Hill, Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), is well enough in touch with her constituents […]

The American people are making their voices heard, and it is already getting results. Communications Director for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reports an average of 1.5 million calls per day this week, and says you can tell “they’re working” by watching the activity on the floor of the Senate: #Senate offices are being […]

After a bitter legislative battle, Obamacare passed by a hair. I followed the news closely. I knew it was was a landmark day for millions without coverage.  Then Obamacare became personal to me because along with millions of others, I lost a good job during the Great Recession. I managed to pay my very expensive […]