Tag: Health

Paul Ryan told reporters Thursday that conservatives can't always get what they want because of Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate's unelected parliamentarian. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Is this little Senate lawyer scaring Trump’s Republicans away from Obamacare repeal?

Philip Wegmann · March 9, 2017 11:16 pm

The highly contested bill now heads to the House Budget Committee, followed by the House floor. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obamacare repeal passes first legislative hurdle

Robert King, Paige Winfield · March 9, 2017 9:42 pm

Cable TV comedian Samantha Bee apologized Thursday after her show mocked an alleged cancer patient. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’ apologizes for saying CPAC attendee with brain cancer has a ‘Nazi haircut’

Daniel Chaitin · March 9, 2017 7:11 pm

Conservatives believe their party's congressional leaders have sold out. Non-conservatives think they are dangerously right-wing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obamacare deck is stacked against conservatives

W. James Antle III · March 9, 2017 12:15 pm

People should not have their fiscal arms twisted to choose what they don't really want. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Stop protecting the employer-based healthcare system

Washington Examiner · March 9, 2017 12:00 pm

Republicans are not afraid that our compatriots will measure us by how well the AHCA cares for people. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

AHCA a case study in compassion, fairness and freedom

Doug Collins · March 9, 2017 5:03 am

FILE - In this May 22, 2013 file photo, Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Donald Trump's status as a Washington outsider fuels his fiery populism and also is helping to shield him from the scrutiny House Republicans are devoting to Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. senator and secretary of state. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Democrats who voted against Obamacare seven years ago wary of GOP bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 9, 2017 5:01 am

The plan gives states much more leeway, and predicting how states will behave is a tricky task for the CBO. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obamacare replacement is hard to score, budget experts say

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 9, 2017 5:01 am

Democrats' goal: to fight Obamacare repeal and replace to the bitter end. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obamacare repeal hearings to continue overnight

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 9, 2017 2:47 am

Freedomworks issued a statement by its president Adam Brandon which did not mention the ad buy but rather said that the group "believe[s] we can negotiate" on provisions that many Tea Party conservatives find troubling. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump is winning over Tea Party group on Obamacare replacement

Jeremy Lott · March 9, 2017 2:43 am

GOP staff on a key committee conceded that the Republican leadership's new healthcare plan would not require Medicaid insurers to cover mental health in certain plans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

GOP plan makes Medicaid mental health coverage a question mark

Robert King · March 9, 2017 12:43 am

Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., each asked whether the Congressional Budget Office has scored the House plan to partially repeal Obamacare. (Screenshot/C-span)

Democrats disrupt House work to protest healthcare bill

Pete Kasperowicz · March 8, 2017 9:57 pm