Trump’s 5 Principles for Repealing and Replacing Obamacare
Trump’s Obamacare replacement principles: preexisting conditions, Health Savings Accounts, Medicaid flexibility, tort reform, and insurance across state lines.
Trump’s Obamacare replacement principles: preexisting conditions, Health Savings Accounts, Medicaid flexibility, tort reform, and insurance across state lines.
President Donald Trump is not expected to endorse the Obamacare fix proposed by Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) in his first address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening, sources told Breitbart News.
In a Tuesday morning interview with Fox & Friends, President Trump described Obamacare as a “disaster” and said the Republican replacement plan would be “terrific.” He did not commit to outlining this plan during his address to Congress on Tuesday night but promised the details would be coming soon.
Republicans have proposed many plans to repeal and replace Obamacare. Here is a primer explaining the most important aspects of each plan.
President Donald Trump praised Speaker Paul Ryan for his work on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
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.
Enough Republicans to crush the effort in the U.S. Senate announced on Monday evening they oppose any effort by congressional GOP leadership to only partially repeal Obamacare, scuttling House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plans to kick the can down the road again.
A leaked draft bill outlines Speaker Ryan’s plan to dismantle core parts of Obamacare, replacing it with a new tax credit.
President Trump told governors at a White House meeting that he looks to announce his own Obamacare replacement plan within the next few weeks.
Congressman Mark Meadows told Breitbart News that the Freedom Caucus plan to repeal Obamacare brings Americans closest to liberty.
President Donald Trump promised a large crowd of American governors that he would work to redirect power from the federal government to the states.
Betsy McCaughey, a former Donald Trump economic advisor, said that Speaker Ryan should step down if he cannot pass an Obamacare repeal package.
When I originally conceived the idea for “How Trump Won,” I prepared a conclusion in the event he lost. The following is an excerpt of that original conclusion — a view of a fate narrowly avoided.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-CA) said the Republicans and President Donald Trump would not be able to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Pelosi said, “The Republicans have been baying at the moon for seven
As we think about mobilizing to win the war against disease, disability, and premature death, we might start by thinking about how we’ve won our wars in the past.
On Thursday healthcare experts discussed the prescription for Obamacare at CPAC.
The president of the Heritage Foundation and a former senator from South Carolina told an audience at Thursday’s session of the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that conservatives should know, despite their wins in November, there are no permanent victories in Washington.
Vice President Mike Pence delivered a fiery speech Thursday night at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where he reassured that the Trump Administration will fight for Americans “every single day.”
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) says she will not vote with fellow Republicans for an Obamacare repeal bill that defunds Planned Parenthood.
Former Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday that Republicans are unlikely to pass an Obamacare repeal and replace package.
Where is it written that “healthcare policy” has to be defined only as “health insurance”? Instead of focusing exclusively on health insurance, perhaps Republicans could embrace a broader agenda: focus on health. They could put more emphasis on the science of cures and treatment, and less on the politics of insurance and reimbursement.
The voters’ patience is not infinite, and if Republicans fail to repeal Obamacare, expect massive stay-aways next November — a Tea Party in reverse.
Wednesday at the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer had an exchange with ABC’s Jon Karl over town hall participants concerns about President Donald Trump’s plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Partial transcript as follows:
The fate of Obamacare dominates the news—again. Eight years ago, anti-Obamacare Republicans and Tea Partiers were on the offensive. Today, it’s pro-Obamacare Democrats, perhaps joined by “astroturf” activists, on the offense. Congressional Republicans have had plenty of time to think through their preferred alternative to Obamacare in the seven years since it was signed into law. So what is the hang-up? Part of the problem is the GOP has never really come to grips with the basic question: Do Americans have a right to health insurance?
Republicans continue to clash over Obamacare taxes as Congress plans to draft a repeal package.
Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan told Breitbart News that Republicans on Capitol Hill must remember the GOP promised over the last six political cycles to repeal Obamacare – legislation passed on nine lies Democrats told about President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) expressed his soft feelings for DREAMers — young aliens brought into the country by their parents without legal sanction, and how they are to be handled Friday at a Capitol Hill press conference.
House Republican leaders previewed parts of an Obamacare repeal bill at a Thursday press conference.
President Donald Trump promised that he would submit a plan to deal with Obamacare in early March, answering critics who said he was not dealing with the issue soon enough.
The Trump administration proposed a new rule to stabilize the individual and the small-group health insurance market.
Weak-kneed Republicans are starting to stammer, talk of delay and say we can’t repeal all of Obamacare. One GOP plan even keeps the Obamacare taxes. Another GOP plan says to blue states: “If you like Obamacare, you can keep it!” and red states will pay for it. Other GOP plans want to keep Obamacare subsidies but rename them refundable tax credits.
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The health insurance giant Humana will exit the Obamacare exchanges in 2018.
President Trump’s executive order restraining Obamacare is already in effect at the IRS. The IRS will accept tax returns that do not declare health insurance status. Obamacare requires individuals to have a qualified level of health insurance or pay the
Let’s compare what President Trump has accomplished since the inauguration (with that enormous crowd!) with what congressional Republicans have done.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) walked out of an Obamacare meeting with Speaker Ryan over Medicaid expansion and the lack of progress to repeal Obamacare.
The House Freedom Caucus and several members of the Republican Study Committee urged Speaker Paul Ryan to adopt a more aggressive Obamacare repeal strategy.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow Monday to discuss the need for Congress to repeal Obamacare.
Now that Tom Price serves as Health and Human Services secretary, he can wield vast discretionary power to unwind Obamacare.
Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore says the Trump administration’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare is proof that no nation on earth “shits on its own” people the way the U.S. does.