Tag: Patty Murray

Some Democrats reluctant to join Chuck Schumer in opposing Obamacare deal

Robert King · November 15, 2017 8:05 pm

The Washington state Democrat lamented that Republicans were working along party lines on healthcare. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Patty Murray on individual mandate repeal: It’s ‘like trying to put out a fire with penicillin’

Kimberly Leonard · November 15, 2017 4:29 pm

Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., brokered a bipartisan deal that would fund Obamacare insurer payments for two years in exchange for more flexibility for states to waive the law's regulations. But Senate Republicans crafting tax reform legislation have put that deal in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats mum on abandoning Alexander-Murray if GOP guts Obamacare individual mandate

Kimberly Leonard · November 15, 2017 1:08 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has said he opposes a bipartisan deal to stabilize Obamacare in return for repealing the law's individual mandate that everyone buy insurance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obamacare stabilization deal draws opposition from some House Republicans

Robert King · November 14, 2017 11:52 pm

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Tuesday that getting rid of Obamacare's individual mandate, which forces all Americans to have health insurance or pay a penalty, will disrupt the marketplaces and cause people to pay more. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Patty Murray stops short of abandoning bipartisan Obamacare deal

Robert King · November 14, 2017 9:59 pm

Senate Republican leaders are optimistic that inserting the individual mandate repeal in the GOP tax reform bill "will be helpful." Republicans made the announcement following a closed-door meeting with rank-and-file members. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate GOP tax bill will attack Obamacare’s individual mandate

Susan Ferrechio, Robert King · November 14, 2017 7:41 pm

Senators detailed the kinds of questions they would see to ask President Trump's nominee. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Key Republican senators ready to quickly move Trump’s health secretary nominee

Kimberly Leonard · November 13, 2017 5:25 pm

Senators urged passage of a bill on Obamacare as a way to lower premiums. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats seize on election results, Obamacare enrollment to urge bipartisan healthcare deal

Kimberly Leonard · November 8, 2017 9:02 pm

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speaks during a hearing with the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mike Rounds: Obamacare fix likely pushed to December

Robert King · November 2, 2017 6:44 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady introduced the Healthcare Market Certainty and Mandate Relief Act on Wednesday. (AP Photos)

Orrin Hatch, Kevin Brady introduce Obamacare stabilization bill

Robert King · November 1, 2017 10:50 pm

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said that initial bipartisan talks with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, were stymied in September as Republicans wanted another shot at repealing Obamacare. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Patty Murray urges Republicans to stop blocking Obamacare fix

Robert King · November 1, 2017 3:28 pm

Sylvia Burwell praised the deal, which has yet to win support from the president and key Republican leaders. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Obama’s HHS secretary praises bipartisan Obamacare deal

Robert King · October 27, 2017 3:47 pm