Tag: Affordable Care Act

National faith leaders on Tuesday delivered a life-sized coffin and death certificate to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office. (Faith in Public Life)

Faith leaders deliver casket to McConnell’s office to protest healthcare vote

Sean Langille · July 25, 2017 6:32 pm

Republican Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Rob Portman of Ohio, three key swing votes in the healthcare debate, said on Tuesday that they would vote "yes" on a motion that would debate a bill to repeal portions of Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obamacare repeal debate edges closer to passage as swing votes say they’ll vote ‘yes’

Kimberly Leonard · July 25, 2017 6:25 pm

A new poll says the majority of Republican voters back a plan to repeal Obamacare without a replacement. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Most Republican voters back Obamacare repeal-and-delay strategy

Melissa Quinn · July 25, 2017 6:20 pm

If the government is paying Centene to provide insurance, it's not exactly a market-economy corporation. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

On day of huge Senate healthcare vote, New York Times publishes misleading Obamacare article

Tom Rogan · July 25, 2017 4:57 pm

The Senate is currently slated to remain in Washington for the first two weeks of the initially planned recess. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Steny Hoyer: ‘Unlikely’ House will be in town during August recess at all

Al Weaver · July 25, 2017 4:36 pm

Failing to repeal Obamacare could mean no tax reform, no growing economy, no entitlement reform and, quite possibly, no control of any of the power centers on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

On Obamacare repeal, failure is not an option for congressional Republicans

Ford O'Connell · July 25, 2017 3:46 pm

The bill is the same legislation that the Senate passed under former President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rand Paul says GOP will vote on Obamacare ‘repeal and delay’

Kimberly Leonard · July 25, 2017 3:24 pm

Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment to healthcare bill allows insurers to sell cheap, bare bones plans on the individual market, which includes Obamacare's exchanges, as long as they sell one plan that meets Obamacare's quality regulations.

Ted Cruz amendment to healthcare bill leads to 4 million without insurance

Robert King · July 25, 2017 2:36 pm

In the years since Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act into law, the CEOs of 70 of the largest healthcare companies have raked in a cumulative $9.8 billion in earnings, according to a new report. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Healthcare CEO pay has grown under Obamacare, outpacing national average

Emily Jashinsky · July 25, 2017 2:25 pm

"Now, they're never ... they're not going to repeal and replace Obamacare," said former House Speaker John Boehner. "It's been around too long. And the American people have gotten accustomed to it." (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

John Boehner: Republicans will ‘never’ repeal Obamacare

Kimberly Leonard · July 25, 2017 1:47 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that President Trump would not accept the blame if the Senate fails to pass healthcare reform. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Sarah Sanders: ‘Ridiculous’ to blame Trump if healthcare fails

Anna Giaritelli · July 25, 2017 12:07 pm

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will return to the Senate Tuesday just in time for a key vote on healthcare reform. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump welcomes ‘hero’ John McCain back to Washington for healthcare vote

Anna Giaritelli · July 25, 2017 11:22 am