Obamacare
The latest on the Affordable Care Act.
He says deductibles and premiums will go down. The opposite is true under the Senate bill.
“We’ll find out.”
It’s a boost for Republican leaders.
Nobody knows what’s happening. Senate Republicans are voting anyway.
This is how it would happen.
“It is impossible to overcome that basic arithmetic reality.”
“I’ve seen how we’ve struggled with this.”
Repealing and replacing Obamacare just got harder.
Let’s talk about the Byrd Rule.
7 things you need to know.
The report is at best confusing — and at worst deliberately misleading.
“We repealed it, and therefore you must love it. What it actually does is irrelevant.”
The president estimates health insurance ought to cost $12 per month.
The Congressional Budget Office analyzes the Republican bill to repeal Obamacare without replacement.
It would repeal the law’s coverage expansion starting in 2020.
Trump is uninformed, underprepared, and unclear — and this is is the result.
“I did not come to Washington to hurt people.”
And premiums could eventually double.
He compares the GOP to a “groom with cold feet.”
The Senate majority leader brings back an idea his party rejected this past winter.
The Affordable Care Act’s successes are bedeviling Republican efforts to replace it.
Republicans don’t have a coherent policy vision.
Four Republican senators oppose the current bill.
“Time hurts Senate GOP leadership.”
They warn middle-class families would be exposed to skyrocketing premiums.
Brian Sandoval could kill the Senate bill.
The bill is a disaster in the making for America’s opioid epidemic.
The exemption would have the practical effect of ensuring congressional plans cover a wide array of benefits.
The revised Senate bill turns Obamacare into a high-risk pool.
McConnell’s offer is this: nothing.
It will also keep some — but not all — of the Affordable Care Act taxes on the rich.
“As far as I can tell, the new bill is the same as the old bill.”
The plan includes money to help especially sick patients and proposes changing the timing of open enrollment.
“No Senate bill yet exists.”
A loophole could allow insurance plans to once again discriminate against the sick.
There isn’t enough money to make up for the current plan’s cuts.
“It’s going to be very difficult to get me to a yes.”
What if — stay with me here — the Senate actually did its job on health care?
“The insurance companies have had their fingers all over this bill.”
Is 22 million more uninsured a moral blight? Evidence of freedom? Republicans disagree.