obamacare
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Trumpcare Vote Put on Hold Because It’s a Hot Trashtastic Mess
Senate Republicans have delayed their plans to vote on their newest Trumpcare bill because they now realize what many knew when GOP leaders locked themselves into a room to craft this deadweight anchor of a bill: It’s trash. The Senate Republicans version of Trumpcare—the Better Care Reconciliation Act—is a hot piece of trashy mess. Moderate…
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The Supersecret Trumpcare Bill Is Now Public and It Sucks, but You Knew That Already
This vomit-inducing Senate revision of President Donald Trump’s initial trashy health care bill was doomed from the time Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thought it was a good idea to have an all-male GOP lineup working behind closed doors in secret to create it. On Thursday, the Frankenstein-esque creation of Trumpcare—dubbed the Better Care Reconciliation…
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Trump Continues Assault on Women; New Rule Moves to Allow Employers to Deny Birth Control Coverage
If the Trump administration has its way, religious employers will be allowed to deny their female employees contraceptive insurance coverage. Currently, under Obamacare, birth control is deemed an essential preventive health service that is fully covered. According to HuffPost, the White House Office of Management and Budget used its website to post that it was…
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Sheila Jackson Lee Defends Obamacare on House Floor, GOP Congressman Calls Her ‘Hysterical’
Thursday morning, while we were all preparing to lose our health insurance, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stood on the House floor and gave the kind of speech that would have you nodding your head and saying “Amen” if you were in church. When she was done, Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) called her “hysterical.” Lee…
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Dems Sing ‘Na Na Na … Goodbye’ as House Votes to Repeal Obamacare
House Democrats taunted their Republican counterparts as GOP representatives passed a bill that would erase the signature legislation of the Obama administration and replace it with a tax break for the wealthiest Americans and simultaneously karate-chop 24 million Americans in their soon-to-be uninsured throats. Knowing that it won’t cover the millions of people with pre-existing…
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Republican Health Care Proposal Would Exempt Congress and Staff From Pre-Existing Condition Clause
House Republicans introduced a health care amendment Tuesday night that would allow individual states to opt out of Obamacare’s provision prohibiting insurers from charging higher rates for those with pre-existing conditions, with one catch: Members of Congress and their staff would be exempt from the higher premiums. As Vox notes, in its current iteration, Obamacare…
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Kamala Harris: ‘Trump’s Wall Is a Stupid Waste of Money’
Looks like those “California girls” (in this case elected officials) continue to tell it like it t-i-s. Like her colleague Rep. Maxine Waters, Sen. Kamala Harris had some direct words for President Donald Trump and his proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico, calling it “a stupid use of money.” The senator tweeted…
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Understanding #TrumpFlop on Obamacare in 7 Easy Memes and GIFs
Brutal. Shameful. Embarrassing. America hasn’t seen a politician take an L this bad since Papa Pope read Fitz. In case you missed the sound of a million souls crying out in joy, then suddenly drowned out by loud laughter, the Republicans’ ill-fated attempt to scrap and replace Obamacare flopped miserably today. P90X Ryan (aka the…
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White House Budget Director: Don’t Like Trumpcare in Your State? Change Your State
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has been working tirelessly to push this bullshit Republican health care bill through the House. When grilled by CBS This Morning about the 10 essential health benefits (EHBs), including maternity care and mental-health and substance-abuse treatment, that were covered under Obamacare but would be cut from the…
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Trump Demands Friday Vote on Health Care Plan, Will Keep Obamacare if House Rejects GOP Plan
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told GOP lawmakers that President Donald Trump is demanding a Friday vote in the House on the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, and if the House rejects the GOP plan, Trump is prepared to move on and leave Obamacare in place. Politico reports that Mulvaney had the…