Tag: Affordable Care Act

Cruz is one of four Republican senators who say they can't support the draft bill released by GOP leaders. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ted Cruz pushes insurer mandate compromise

Robert King · June 22, 2017 8:08 pm

Republicans need "Read the Bills" as a check on themselves. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Sen. Rand Paul wants to put the brakes on closed-door legislating

Jeremy Beaman · June 22, 2017 8:07 pm

In an interview with the Washington Examiner as negotiations over the American Health Care Act were ongoing, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said the group's only goal was "to lower premiums." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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In joint statement, conservative senators echo initial Freedom Caucus critique of House healthcare bill

Emily Jashinsky · June 22, 2017 7:11 pm

The Senate draft of the healthcare bill is similar to the House bill but includes additional funding to stabilize the Obamacare health insurance exchanges. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

CBO score expected next week on Senate healthcare bill

Kimberly Leonard · June 22, 2017 6:38 pm

With this bill, Senate Republicans are betraying the promises they made on the campaign trail for the better part of seven years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Republicans embrace Obamacare in their healthcare bill

Sally Pipes · June 22, 2017 6:24 pm

The agency announced that it would release a score Monday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Insurance penalties excluded from GOP healthcare bill

Kimberly Leonard · June 22, 2017 6:13 pm

The headlines tell the tale. Consider what the following "objective" news outlets had to say. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Media bias? Just look at today’s healthcare headlines

Tom Rogan · June 22, 2017 6:12 pm

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky issued a joint statement announcing they do not support the plan "but are open to negotiation." (AP Photos)

Cruz, Johnson, Lee, Paul ‘not ready’ to support GOP healthcare plan

Susan Ferrechio · June 22, 2017 6:10 pm

Let's hope conservative members in both chambers take up the mantle of freer markets in health insurance and move the public, and the policy, in a better direction. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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With Senate healthcare bill in the picture, Obamacare debate hinges on community rating

Hadley Heath Manning · June 22, 2017 6:07 pm

President Trump is not as concerned as Senate Republicans about passing a GOP healthcare bill by the end of next week, Sarah Sanders said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump worried about ‘final product’ rather than timeline of healthcare bill

Sarah Bedford · June 22, 2017 6:00 pm

The bill is distinguishing between those who belong to the Medicaid expansion population and one group (pregnant women of a certain income) who are not part of the expansion population. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

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No, the Senate healthcare bill doesn’t cut pregnant women off Medicaid

David Freddoso · June 22, 2017 5:34 pm

Protesters of the Senate GOP healthcare bill removed from their wheelchairs by police. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Wheelchair-bound protesters removed from protest outside Mitch McConnell’s office

Jack O'brien, Leah DePiero · June 22, 2017 5:31 pm