Tag: Affordable Care Act

"The plan he helped create hasn't done so well for Americans seeking health insurance," Spicer said. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Spicer to Gruber: Stop criticizing healthcare reform and go back to MIT

Kyle Feldscher · March 14, 2017 6:58 pm

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Republican lawmakers seeking details on the second and third phases of healthcare reform should address their concerns to House Speaker Paul Ryan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House punts to Ryan when pressed for Obamacare replacement details

Gabby Morrongiello · March 14, 2017 6:57 pm

Voting for the American Health Care Act when it can't pass the Senate would be political suicide for House Republicans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Torched: Passing Paul Ryan’s Obamacare overhaul would BTU House Republicans

Philip Wegmann · March 14, 2017 6:09 pm

It was easier to campaign on "repeal and replace" than to actually find a way to do it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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The CBO report shows why Obamacare repeal and replace is harder than it looks

Capri Cafaro · March 14, 2017 5:33 pm

He noted, for example, that conservatives want to end the individual and corporate insurance mandates. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Karl Rove pinpoints flaw in conservatives’ health plan: ‘Eight Democrats’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 14, 2017 5:14 pm

Trump, whose lack of ideological grounding was evident throughout the campaign, has seized and carried the conservative banner in many areas since his election. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Trump’s biggest fans having a hard time accepting that he chose to own Trumpcare

David Freddoso · March 14, 2017 3:50 pm

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office nailed the coffin shut with its independent, nonpartisan analysis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Dumpster fire of Obamacare bill would be dead on arrival in Senate

Philip Wegmann · March 14, 2017 3:42 pm

House and Senate Democrats said Tuesday they would be willing to work on health insurance reform but only if Republicans withdraw a proposal that would also repeal Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats to GOP: Stop Obamacare repeal and we’ll negotiate

Susan Ferrechio · March 14, 2017 3:22 pm

Wall Street Journal to GOP: CBO healthcare bill estimate not ‘gospel’

Eddie Scarry · March 14, 2017 2:48 pm

"The Republicans are confused right now. Some of them are saying, discrediting the CBO, and others are glorifying pushing 24 million people off of coverage. So I hope that they would pull the bill. That's really the only decent thing to do," Pelosi said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Pelosi really wants GOP to pull healthcare bill, especially after the CBO report

Becket Adams · March 14, 2017 2:21 pm

In an effort to blunt Democratic attacks, House Republicans designed a healthcare plan that kept most of Obamacare's regulations in place and preserved some of its spending. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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CBO score makes the case for full repeal and free market replacement

Philip Klein · March 14, 2017 1:37 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price downplayed the Congressional Budget Office's report on the Republican healthcare bill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Tom Price: GOP healthcare plan fulfills Trump’s promise of insurance for all

Kyle Feldscher · March 14, 2017 12:40 pm