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The new effort led by former Sen. Rick Santorum could revive the prospect of repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Former Obama Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Andy Slavitt, who helped implement the Affordable Care Act, said that the Graham-Cassidy bill remains the most significant opportunity to repeal Obamacare.

Covered California is effectively giving Blue Shield a monopoly over health insurance in almost a quarter of California counties.

House Speaker Paul Ryan passed the buck during a Monday night town hall, blaming the Senate for the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan says Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber submitted at least two false invoices in connection with a $400,000 contract he had with the state to provide economic consulting services.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R., Ala.) — who finished third in last week’s Senate vote between establishment favorite Sen. Luther Strange (R., Ala.) and conservative firebrand and former state Supreme Court justice Roy Moore — said Steve Bannon’s West Wing departure and President Trump’s endorsement of Sen. Strange is a sign that the establishment swamp has seized control of the White House.

Obamacare continues to collapse into a “death spiral” by design, contrary to Democrats’ claim President Trump fostered “uncertainty” that led to skyrocketing premiums and health care costs.

The White House said that it will provide subsidies for health insurers for August, despite President Donald Trump’s previous threats that he would end the subsidies after the fallout of the failed Senate vote to repeal Obamacare.

Covered California is so desperate to keep insurance companies on its Obamacare exchange that the state plans to guarantee profits to the giant corporations.

A new poll released Monday revealed that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has become increasingly unpopular among Republicans as a result of his vote against Obamacare repeal in the Senate.

President Donald Trump extended the deadline for insurance companies to offer plans on the Obamacare exchanges while he decides whether to eliminate subsidies for health insurance companies.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the former chairman of the Freedom Caucus, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that GOP lawmakers should “act like Republicans — let’s simply repeal Obamacare.”

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), and other members of the Freedom Caucus filed a discharge petition on Friday to repeal Obamacare.

Thirty-six conservative and activist groups urged Congress to repeal Obamacare’s health insurance and medical device taxes before they go into effect next year.

President Donald Trump took another shot at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for failing to pass an Obamacare repeal.

Ballotpedia Editor-at-Large Scott Rasmussen highlights why Obamacare remains so unpopular.

Wednesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his failure to repeal Obamacare as Republicans have control of the White House, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Tuesday on AM560 “Chicago’s Morning Answer,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said it was possible Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ)  brain tumor and the 1:30 a.m. ET timing “might” have played a role in his “no” vote on the Republican Senate’s “skinny”

President Donald Trump fired back at Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after he suggested that the president had “excessive expectations” about what Congress could accomplish during the first year of his presidency.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) warned if the Republicans in the Senate did not repeal Obamacare they would lose their majority. Gohmert said, “‘I’m hearing from people all over, ‘We are hurting, please, you’ve got

In her first interview since becoming the spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee (RNC), former CNN contributor Kayleigh McEnany talked to Sirius XM host Alex Marlow on Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday, during which she stressed the importance of Republicans unifying behind President Trump’s agenda.

Left-wing “resistance” activists flooded a town hall meeting Monday held by Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) in Chico, California, with one attendee taunting the congressman: “May you die in pain!”

Congress still has the opportunity to repeal the long-delayed health insurance tax that will take effect in 2018, even with the Obamacare repeal stymied by moderate Republicans in the Senate.

American health insurance giant Anthem announced on Monday that it will exit the Obamacare exchange in Nevada and will stop offering plans in roughly half of Georgia’s counties next year.

On Thursday, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) launched a 58-second digital ad targeting Democratic congressional candidates Bryan Caforio and Josh Harder in the California’s 25th and 10th Districts over their party’s support for a single-payer, government-run healthcare system.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) claimed during a recent town hall that she “respects” President Trump’s voters, despite repeated attempts to stymie his agenda.

Covered California announced this week that its 2018 rates will increase about eight times faster than the rate of inflation, as the Obamacare law and the state’s liberal legislature continue to destroy private insurance in California.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) revealed at a recent Missouri town hall that she could support a single-payer health care system. A recent Urban Institute study suggests that a single-payer health care system could cost $32 trillion over the next ten years.

Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) announced on Monday that starting the week of September 4, the committee will begin hearings to stabilize the individual health insurance market through insurance bailouts and subsidies.

Wednesday on “The Mike Broomhead Show,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he voted against the Republican’s “skinny” Obamacare repeal bill last week because people in his home state would “get screwed.” McCain said, “I wanted us to have a full

California and New York will lead 16 states, including D.C., into a lawsuit to preserve subsidies to health insurance companies on the Obamacare exchanges, after a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday.

Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said President Donald Trump threats to stop making the cost-sharing payments of the Affordable Care Act were “petty” and “childish and un-presidential.” Partial transcript as follows:

Democratic Reps. Ted Lieu (CA-33) and Linda Sanchez (CA-38) are hosting “town hall” meetings this week in Orange County targeting Republican Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (CA-48) and Ed Royce (CA-39).

Jackie doesn’t pull any punches in this week’s exclusive clip for Breitbart News, going after President Donald Trump for failing to secure a deal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Republicans have long been united in opposition to Obamacare, but opposition is a sentiment—it’s not a strategy. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that Republicans were never together—were never operating as a team—to pursue an effective anti-Obamacare vision. Most glaringly, the GOP was long on “repeal” and short on “replace,” even as the country clearly expected both repeal and replace.

President Trump is taking a more populist approach to health care in the wake of congressional Republicans’ inability to repeal-and-replace Obamacare — putting both insurance companies and Congress on notice for being exempt from the unpopular law.