Tag: Affordable Care Act

Trump's most ardent supporters see him primarily as a deal-maker and successful businessman. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Trump is struggling with the Art of the (Republican healthcare bill) Deal

Hadley Heath Manning · March 24, 2017 12:18 am

Therapy-by-Washington has made healthcare unaffordable as well as health insurance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Instead of the House healthcare bill, replace federal healthcare laws by letting the states decide what to do

Deane Waldman · March 24, 2017 12:00 am

President Trump ready to ‘move on,’ pressures Republicans to vote on healthcare bill on Friday

Al Weaver, Robert King, Susan Ferrechio · March 23, 2017 11:55 pm

Invisible risk sharing "has the same function as making sure that people with pre-existing conditions get covered," said Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the head of the Freedom Caucus. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Freedom Caucus’ list of demands

Robert King · March 23, 2017 11:37 pm

Needlessly rushing policy has become the ignominious hallmark of the two-month-old Republican government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Take a breath and rewrite repeal and replace

Washington Examiner · March 23, 2017 11:23 pm

That spending reductions are delayed until the 2020 election year has been one obstacle to gaining votes. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Beltway Confidential

CBO: House healthcare bill will not have reduced deficits after seven years

Philip Klein · March 23, 2017 9:58 pm

The meeting was held just hours after the GOP had to delay a vote on the healthcare bill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bannon, Priebus, Mulvaney huddle with conservative lawmakers on healthcare bill

Pete Kasperowicz, Gabby Morrongiello, Susan Ferrechio · March 23, 2017 9:32 pm

GOP leadership must fight, openly, vigorously, and effectively, to get deregulating amendments in the reconciliation bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

CBO: Repeal bill changes would mean less savings

Robert King · March 23, 2017 9:17 pm

Here’s what Friday will look like in the House

Pete Kasperowicz · March 23, 2017 9:13 pm

"Debate will commence tonight as planned and the vote will be in the morning to avoid voting at 3 a.m.," a White House official said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House: Healthcare vote will happen in the morning

Sarah Bedford · March 23, 2017 8:07 pm

The conservative House Freedom Caucus is drafting a major amendment to the GOP plan to repeal Obamacare after House Speaker Paul Ryan conceded the bill needed to be fixed. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Mark Meadows: ‘Progress is being made,’ but no deal yet

Nicole Duran, Pete Kasperowicz · March 23, 2017 8:05 pm

Beltway Confidential

Sean Spicer’s stumbling answer on reconciliation and the ‘Byrd Rule’ explains why Republicans aren’t fully repealing Obamacare

Philip Wegmann · March 23, 2017 7:48 pm