Tag: Affordable Care Act

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is pulling out of 32 counties in Kansas and Missouri next year. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Blue Cross pulls out of Obamacare markets in Kansas, Missouri

Robert King · May 24, 2017 6:05 pm

The Senate GOP can't afford to lose more than 50 votes to be able to send a healthcare bill to committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell doesn’t yet know what Obamacare repeal will look like

Kimberly Leonard · May 24, 2017 6:03 pm

Nebraska Democratic Party Chairwoman Jane Kleeb, who confirmed the voice on the recording was Montag's, said he was fired. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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CBO score won’t force House to re-vote on healthcare bill, Steve Scalise says

Jason Russell · May 24, 2017 5:55 pm

The Louisiana Republican refuted Democrats' characterizations of his party as callous and uncaring. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Steve Scalise: Republicans were never going to eliminate federal pre-existing condition protections

Emily Jashinsky · May 24, 2017 5:49 pm

Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday he wouldn't want to repeat the experience of passing the American Health Care Act, but that it was good for House Republicans. (Angela Major /The Janesville Gazette via AP)

Paul Ryan: Obamacare repeal process was ‘cathartic’

Kimberly Leonard · May 24, 2017 2:09 pm

The new score will include an evaluation of the impact of allowing states to opt out of Obamacare mandates and more funding for pre-existing conditions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

High-stakes CBO score to guide Senate on Obamacare repeal

Kimberly Leonard · May 24, 2017 4:01 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Premiums have doubled since before Obamacare, says HHS report

Kimberly Leonard · May 24, 2017 1:35 am

Rep. Tom MacArthur has resigned from his post as co-chairman of the centrist Republican Tuesday Group, either by force or pressure, after engineering a compromise that helped pass the American Health Care Act. (Joe Lamberti/Camden Courier-Post via AP)

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Tom MacArthur had to resign because he called too many Republicans’ bluff

David Freddoso · May 23, 2017 10:10 pm

"At some point we will have to make decisions and then we will have to put something out there and eventually vote," said Sen. John Thune. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Time may be running out on Senate Obamacare talks

Robert King · May 23, 2017 8:43 pm

While the American Health Care Act does say that pre-existing conditions will be covered, I fear that by leaving much of this to the states, we will likely create a system in which many are left out. (AP)

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Obamacare widened the health gap between the haves and have-nots — will the American Health Care Act make it any better?

Kevin Campbell · May 23, 2017 3:23 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, standing with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., right, and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, speaks during a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Republican group runs ad to defend Obamacare repeal from CBO score

David M. Drucker · May 23, 2017 10:00 am

"We need to stabilize premiums, or we are not gonna have a market," said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House resisting Senate push for short-term Obamacare fix

Robert King · May 23, 2017 4:01 am