Thursday, Trump issued an Executive Order directing federal agencies to draft new regulations allowing employers to form insurance offerings across state lines. Many contend opening up the marketplace will allow more employer flexibility, greater choice, and as a result, lower premiums.
Before the ink had dried, a leaked report indicated...
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to start loosening some rules associated with Obamacare after the Republican controlled Congress failed many times to repeal the healthcare law. From Fox News:
According to officials, Trump will direct the secretary of labor to consider expanding access to Association Health Plans, which could...
President Donald Trump’s administration has decided to roll back a portion of Obamacare that mandates a private company must include birth control coverage in health insurance plans.
From The Washington Examiner:
The new rules allow any employer to be exempt from the mandate “based on its sincerely held religious beliefs” or on...
Iowa has submitted a request to the federal government to make changes in a last ditch effort to save the state’s beleaguered Obamacare market. From Quad-City Times:
This November,...
While neo-Nazis and garner wall to wall media coverage, we can’t help but wonder what happened to the endless promises of an Obamacare repeal.
Bouncing from one embarrassing repeal failure to the next, Congressional Republicans are using their summer recess to regroup. And Lord knows they need to get their...
Improving healthcare for veterans was one of the central tenets of Trump’s presidential campaign. This weekend, he took another step towards that goal by singing a bill which will allow veterans to seek private care.
We’ve been actively chronicling the Senate Republican’s embarrassing attempt (or feigned, depending on your thoughts here), to repeal Obamacare.
Whether it’s one big, long con, or a deeply fractured caucus, Sen. Hatch is under the impression that the division in the Republican ranks runs far too deep to find a path...
What’s happening with Obamacare repeal, you ask? That is a fantastic question. But at this point, it’s quite clear that Republicans who campaigned on repealing the ACA have zero intention of doing so now that the opportunity has presented itself.
Seven Republican Senators voted against a so-called “clean repeal” bill Wednesday....
The entire country needs a lesson in parliamentary procedure.
As I blogged yesterday, Senate Republicans, with the assist of Vice President Pence finally cobbled together enough votes to pass a motion to proceed (MTP), which simply allowed for debate on proposed Republican health care reform.
To watch Democrats, progressives, and everyone under the...
Tuesday afternoon, the Senate will vote on the first step to repealing Obamacare — opening floor debate.
Monday, President Trump gave a brief statement on the current state of healthcare reform.
Trump minced no words saying, “every Republican running for office promised immediate relief from this disastrous law.”
One of my favorite things to come out of the Republican ObamaCare flailing is Kemberlee’s term for it: a cluster. It is that. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly has one card left up his sleeve, and he intends to use it next week: force his caucus to record for...
The healthcare reform cluster is trudging along.
After the latest debacle, the Senate is back to revising the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) and also considering a 2015 rendition of Obamacare repeal.
Congressional Republicans are currently engaged in an embarrassing struggle to revamp Obamacare. When revamping didn’t work, they turned to repeal, only for members of their own caucus to balk.
Six months into Trump’s presidency and Congressional Republicans have fumbled the Obamacare repeal ball four times (by my count).
Late Monday night, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) was pronounced dead when Republicans failed to whip enough support to debate the bill, much less ensure its passage.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) announced Monday night their refusal to support the BCRA in its current form, joining Sen....
