Tag: Affordable Care Act

Beltway Confidential

With Cheney as a challenger, Sen. Mike Enzi joins Tea Party effort to defund Obamacare

Charlie Spiering · August 3, 2013 4:00 am

McConnell: GOP Should ‘Just Keep Punching’ at Individual Mandate

Michael Warren · August 2, 2013 5:10 pm

The Arbitrary World of Obamacare

The Arbitrary World of Obamacare

Jeffrey H. Anderson · August 2, 2013 3:33 pm

Could a Republican President Gut Obamacare Unilaterally?

Jeffrey H. Anderson · August 2, 2013 10:01 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, say they wonât vote for any continuing resolution to fund the federal government through the 2014 fiscal year that contains funding for Obamacare.

Beltway Confidential

MORNING EXAMINER: The hoary myth that Obamacare can’t be defunded

Conn Carroll · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

As of Oct. 1, lawmakers and staff are supposed to enroll in the new insurance exchanges that are to be created under the Affordable Care Act. The provision in the law was inserted at the insistence of Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Ruling allows Capitol Hill staff, lawmakers to keep their government insurance subsidies under Obamacare

Susan Ferrechio · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

This week, a small group of Republican senators, led by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, demanded that the full repeal of âObamacareâ be linked to a spending bill needed to keep the government open after the Sept. 30 end of the fiscal year. (AP/Rick Bowmer, File)

Senate Republicans will push for ‘permanent delay’ of Obamacare during recess

Rebecca Berg · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

House Budget Committee member Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., right, accompanied by committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and other committee members, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, to unveil a "comprehensive reform effort aimed to repair the broken budget process". (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republicans plot strategy to renew Obamacare fight in the fall

David M. Drucker · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

Detroit's bankruptcy plan would give unsecured private lenders -- who include creditors backed by general obligation bonds -- only pennies on the dollar. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

It’ll be Motown blues for taxpayers when Uncle Sam bails out Detroit

Shikha Dalmia · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, says he will oppose any new Continuing Resolution to fund the government in 2014 that doesn't defund Obamacare. The Manhattan Institute's Yegeniy Feyman believes that is the wrong strategy for repealing President Obama's signature domestic program. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Defunding Obamacare is not the only way to be rid of it

Yegeniy Feyman · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama would have the ability to shift resources and personnel among executive branch agencies if Congress voted to defund Obamacare. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obamacare is baked into law, and the president has the power to defend it

David M. Drucker · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

77 Percent Say Individual Mandate Should be Delayed or Repealed

Michael Warren · August 1, 2013 7:05 pm