The WASHINGTON POST By Paige Winfield Cunningham, Juliet Eilperin and Mike DeBonis April 6 at 6:00 PM House Republican leaders presented a tweak to their stalled health-care bill Thursday after Vice President Pence pressured them to show progress toward passing the bill before lawmakers leave for a two-week recess. On Thursday morning, House Speaker Paul… Read More
Trying to Revive Health Bill, G.O.P. Adds $15 Billion for Sickest Americans
THE NEW YORK TIMES By ROBERT PEAR APRIL 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — Under intense pressure from President Trump, House Republicans took a small step Thursday to revive legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, adding a $15 billion fund to help insurers pay claims for their sickest customers. Speaker Paul D. Ryan orchestrated a broad… Read More
House Vote to Repeal Affordable Care Act Is Postponed, Despite Trump’s Effort
THE NEW YORK TIMES By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, ROBERT PEAR and THOMAS KAPLAN MARCH 23, 2017 WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders postponed a planned vote Thursday in the full House on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act as President Trump and his allies struggled to round up votes amid a tide of defections from… Read More
Trump’s First Legislative Effort Fails as G.O.P. Pulls Bill to Repeal Obamacare
THE NEW YORK TIMES By ROBERT PEAR, JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, JENNIFER STEINHAUER and THOMAS KAPLAN MARCH 24, 2017 WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks, pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor Friday afternoon in a humiliating defeat for President… Read More
Health bill vote delayed in House in setback to Trump, Ryan
THE WASHINGTON POST By Erica Werner and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar?|?AP March 23 at 3:46 PM WASHINGTON — GOP House leaders delayed their planned vote Thursday on a long-promised bill to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” in a stinging setback for House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump in their first major legislative test. The decision came… Read More
GOP Lawmakers Struggle to Unite on Health Bill
Last-minute discussion showed signs of rallying conservatives while driving away more centrist lawmakers before House vote THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Kristina Peterson, Siobhan Hughes and Natalie Andrews Updated March 22, 2017 10:42 p.m. ET The GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, backed by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, remained… Read More
House Republicans, Deeply Divided, Face Painful Choice on Health Vote
THE NEW YORK TIMES By JENNIFER STEIN HAUERMARCH 22, 2017 WASHINGTON — For the House Republicans who have never served under a Republican president — roughly two-thirds of them — the vote scheduled for Thursday on a measure to replace President Barack Obama’s health care law is a legislative fantasia, the culmination of seven years… Read More
Republicans can’t stop feuding over Obamacare
GOP divisions are raising doubts that the party can meet an early-April deadline to pass legislation. POLITICO By Burgess Everett and Rachael Bade 03/14/17 The scathing nonpartisan analysis of Republicans’ Obamacare repeal plan is hardening GOP divisions and raising doubts about whether the party in Congress can meet a self-imposed deadline to pass legislation by… Read More
Affordable Care Act revision would reduce insured numbers by 24 million, CBO projects
THE WASHINGTON POST By Amy Goldstein, Elise Viebeck, Kelsey Snell and Mike DeBonis March 13, 2017 House Republicans’ proposal to rewrite federal health-care law would more than reverse the gains the Affordable Care Act has made in the number of Americans with health insurance, while curbing the federal deficit, according to a widely anticipated forecast… Read More
Health Bill Would Add 24 Million Uninsured but Save $337 Billion, Report Says
THE NEW YORK TIMES By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR MARCH 13, 2017 Average premiums for people buying insurance on their own would be 15 to 20 percent higher in 2018 and 2019 than they would be under current law, the budget office said. But after that, premiums would be lower than projected under current… Read More