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Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said he would have liked to have seen more time given to lawmakers and the public to “digest” the proposed legislation to replace the 2010 Affordable Care. “[T]he White House and

AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka tweeted out his opposition to the GOP’s new healthcare law just a few hours after meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Happening Now,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) warned against the legislation House Republicans are pushing to replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Gohmert explained there were some things they could do to win over his and

Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, criticized the current Republican proposal that has been presented to replace the Affordable Care Act. When asked what specifically he did not like about the

Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) weighed in on the House Republican health care bill, calling it “Obamacare lite.” Paul also said conservatives are not going to pass it. “This is Obamacare lite. It will not pass. Conservatives aren’t gonna take

Speaker Ryan told OppCast that the Republican Obamacare replacement plan will parallel the Empowering Patients First Act introduced by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.

Trump’s Obamacare replacement principles: preexisting conditions, Health Savings Accounts, Medicaid flexibility, tort reform, and insurance across state lines.

As President Trump talks of revealing a replacement for Obamacare in March, the state of California is talking about going its on way and instituting a single-payer health care system for state residents.

Over 500,000 confidential patient documents were mislaid and left undelivered in the latest National Health Service (NHS) fiasco.

Rep. Tom Price says healthcare policy must have patients – and not government mandates – at its center.

During an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, President-Elect Donald Trump said, “We’re going to get private insurance companies to take care of” certain segments of the population. Trump said, “[W]e’re going to have

Dr. Lawrence Schlachter, neurosurgeon and author of the book Malpractice: A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health-Care System Puts Patients at Risk, spoke with Breitbart News Daily host Raheem Kassam on Monday about both his book and the concept of repealing Obamacare.

Texas House leadership wasted no time in calling on the federal government to reimburse the State for the costs–to the tune of $2.8 billion–incurred as a result of the Obama Administration’s failure or refusal to secure the Texas-Mexico Border.

“We’re going to do repeal and replace,” Donald Trump says about Obamacare. “Very complicated stuff. And we’re going to get a health bill passed; we’re going to get health care taken care of in this country.” He adds, “We’re going to have a health care that is far less expensive and far better.”

Wednesday in New York City at a press conference President-elect Donald Trump told reporters they will be “proud” of the forthcoming repeal and replace efforts underway regarding Obamacare. Trump said, “You’ll be very, very proud as not only the media and

Carrier’s announcement that it has reached a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to keep 1,000 manufacturing jobs from moving from Indiana to Mexico represents the first recognition by multi-national CEOs that the United States is forecast to be the top manufacturing location on the planet by 2020.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was recently elected to take over outgoing Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat, said she would resist President-elect Donald Trump’s policies once he is in the White House.

During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama urged Americans to sign up for coverage on HealthCare.gov, and said, “most of us don’t get our health care through the Marketplace. We get it through our job, or through Medicare or Medicaid.  And

Last week Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber told Americans that Barack Obama’s healthcare law was working just as it was designed – jacking up premiums and deductibles, and limiting choices for its customers.

Obamacare customers are skipping doctors’ visits to cut costs, according to a new study.

During Friday’s GOP Weekly Address, Representative John Ratcliffe (R-TX) stated, “Obamacare is more than just another pile of broken promises. It’s the worst of all worlds. It’s higher costs and fewer choices. It’s less freedom and more government. It’s more

Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence reminded an Ohio crowd of around 700 gathered at Ashland University that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has long pushed for a centralized healthcare program in America.

A review of the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, reveals that 1.4 million Americans will lose their healthcare insurance as a growing number of insurance companies flee Obamacare or otherwise make major changes in coverage due to the problems endemic in the law.

Minnesota Democratic Governor Mark Dayton said Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act is “no longer affordable” after strongly supporting the law just a few years ago.

In a reported bid to protect public health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has enlisted a Texas Tech University food center to monitor commercially-sold meat for pathogens and superbugs.

Despite years of Obama’s promises that America’s health care costs would go down if Obamacare was passed into law, new statistics show that care and insurance premiums have risen more this year than in the last 32 years.

Citing the financial unsustainability of Obamacare, both the insured and insurers are fleeing Obamacare in increasing numbers, leaving President Obama’s takeover of the nation’s healthcare system on the verge of collapse.

Within hours of the release of a Kaiser Family Foundation study on Sunday the Donald Trump campaign released a statement that the report’s conclusions represented “another extraordinary indictment” of Obamacare and “Hillary Clinton’s disastrously poor judgment.”

During Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said, while discussing Obamacare, “In order to avoid a near collapse of our nation’s health insurance market, we need a Republican Congress next year.” Transcript as Follows: “I’m Senator Lamar Alexander, from

During Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address Representative Buddy Carter (R-GA), a pharmacist, said Obamacare “is destroying the healthcare system I worked in for more than 30 years—the best healthcare system in the world.” Transcript as Follows: “Hello, I’m Buddy Carter, and

Republican delegates from across the nation are accepting the work of the 112-member Platform Committee, ratifying a platform that should thrill conservatives of all stripes, starkly contrasting with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

How do the authors of The Affordable Healthcare for America Act (Obamacare) view the piece of legislation as a great success, while many doctors and health care professionals view it as “The Great Government Overreach of 111th Congress?”

It’s always a challenge to notice something that isn’t there, but should be there—the absence of a presence, one might say. And so, as we read the article in the April 28 Washington Post, “There’s a New Sheriff in town in Silicon Valley—the FDA,” we can hunt for what, or who, is missing.

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher stated that Americans shouldn’t “laugh at how pathetic Cubans are for driving those old patched-up cars” when the US does the same thing with its healthcare system, voting system, energy policy, and infrastructure on

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher, who is supporting Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that Sanders’ supporters “want the revolution, but they don’t want to acknowledge revolutions cost money” on Friday. Maher began by pointing to a

A new study shows that life expectancy for white women in America has dropped slightly while the lifespan of black American men has risen.