For months, President Trump has been trying to sabotage people’s health care, saying that “The best thing we can do…is let Obamacare explode.” and “Let it be a disaster because we can blame that on the Democrats.” As part of his ongoing efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act – and with it people’s access […]
CAPITOL HILL — Republican lawmakers expressed renewed confidence that they could overhaul America’s health care system after meeting Wednesday with President Donald Trump, who told them to cancel their August recess unless former President Barack Obama’s health care law, known as Obamacare, was dismantled. “We should not leave town unless we have a health insurance plan,” […]
U.S. President Donald Trump Tuesday blamed Democrats and a ‘few Republicans’ after the latest Republican effort to overhaul the U.S. health care system fell apart Monday. In Twitter posts Tuesday, Trump praised the effort of most Republicans and wished for the failure of the current health care law, commonly known as Obamacare. Late Monday, two […]
After weeks of intense negotiations, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act by a narrow margin of 217-213. All Democrats and 20 of their Republican counterparts voted against passage. The sloppily drafted bill’s future was up in the air until the final seconds of the vote as […]