Sentences with phrase «health care bill last»

Frelinghuysen, chair of the Appropriations Committee, is a Democratic target this cycle, and he's facing fresh heat for voting for the Republican health care bill last week.

Faso, who voted in favor of the GOP health care bill last week, has so far declined to hold a town hall - style meeting in his district or attend any to which he's been invited.

In the immediate wake of the House's narrow passage of the health care bill last week, the Democratic campaign committees launched digital ads attacking Republicans, even those who didn't vote for the bill.

Not exact matches

Let's begin with the big news from last night: At the end of the day, a band of conservative GOP lawmakers thrust the final stake through the heart of the Senate's health care bill.

A number of GOP Senators are saying that the Senate's health care bill probably won't get a vote until the later part of July — a pretty clear departure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hope to get the legislation out of the way before last week's 4th of July recess.

The bill signing marks one of Obama's last official acts in a year beset by a partial government shutdown, a near - default by the Treasury, a calamitous health care rollout and near - perpetual congressional gridlock.

Only one in five Americans approve of the Republican - backed health care bill that the House of Representatives passed last week, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

Just last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan said lawmakers were putting the «finishing touches» on a new health care bill — one that reportedly might scrap protections for people with preexisting conditions — while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reassured Americans they can soon expect to see proposals for «the most significant change to the tax code since Reagan.»

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week launched new salvos against Republican Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney over their votes in support of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Speak Out Central New York, a liberal advocacy group that is pressing Republicans on issues like taxes and health care, is releasing a six - figure ad purchase criticizing Republican Rep. John Katko over the passage of the tax bill from late last year.

Republican U.S. senators plan to write a health - care bill that could be radically different from the one passed last week by the House, including keeping some of the benefits and safeguards currently enshrined within Obamacare.

For one thing, the actual bill makes changes that are far less scary than the «death panels» and «health care rationing» that dominated conservative discourse last year, leaving Republicans little to yell «boo» over.

Gillibrand and her Democratic colleagues are still seeking one last GOP vote necessary to pass the 9/11 health care bill, and she is accusing the Republicans of pushing a «pack of lies» about the bill by suggesting it will be a «job killer» and open the door to fraud.

Those two bills include the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA), the healthcare bill drafted by Senate Republicans which was publicly released last week but has not yet been voted on, and the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), approved in the House on May 4th.

The development comes as the Lords debate the remaining stages of the bill and Labour holds an opposition day debate in the Commons in a last - ditch attempt to prevent the health and social care bill becoming law.

«Daily Show» host Jon Stewart lavished praise on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand last night, calling her «instrumental» in passing several major bills — from a 9/11 health care act to the repeal of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» — despite spending just two years in the upper house.

Last year, Donovan voted against the GOP tax plan and its health care bill, arguing it would hurt his constituents.

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

The statement comes as Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are still trying to line up votes for the health care bill, which has stalled over the last several months, but revived after conservative groups pushed for action on the issue.

Two issues reportedly caused last night's blowup: Mandate relief, which the Assembly didn't start conferencing until late; and the health care exchange bill, which the Senate balked at passing.

The Republicans initially cited «Obamacare» in the wake of the same - sex marriage bill passage as the reason why they wouldn't follow the Assembly's lead last summer and pass the health care exhange bill, even though one of their veteran members, Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supporthealth care exhange bill, even though one of their veteran members, Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supportHealth Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supported it.

Jon Stewart made a brief return to The Daily Show last night to continue his public shaming of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for stonewalling the extension of a bill that would guarantee health care for 9/11 first responders.

«For the last 18 months, the College has actively engaged with the policy development process, from the publication in July 2010 of the Health and Social Care White Paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, through to the various parliamentary stages of the bill, including the Future Forum's «Listening Exercise» last April and May.

House Republican leaders, trying to lock down the votes of wavering upstate New York Republicans, inserted a last - minute special provision in their health care bill that would shift Medicaid costs from New York's counties to its state government.

«We first released our health - care plan in June, and over the last six months, we have introduced at least eight bills that, taken together, would implement this blueprint,» he said.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has reportedly backed out of a fund - raiser for Congressman Michael McMahon after he voted against the health care reform bill last week.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, said last week she was «learning toward voting no» on the GOP's repeal and replacement bill because the American Health Care Act was bad for New York.

While Cuomo didn't tweet anything about the derailment, his last tweet on the status of the health care bill in Congress drew the ire of his constituents closer to home.

Murphy initially voted against the health care bill in the House last November, because he said «it did not adequately address the fundamentally flawed system,» but he supported the final health care bill in March, saying «it will stop the out of control growth of health care costs, protect our local industries and jobs from unfair taxes, and help small businesses create jobs.»

In an interview with the Chicago Sun - Times, Axelrod criticized Kirk for telling a group of Republicans last week that if elected, he will, «lead the effort to repeal this [health care] bill.»

Last Friday, in his widely reported Conservative Home blog, Tim Montgomerie said the Health and Social Care Bill currently going through Parliament is «potentially fatal to the Conservative Party's electoral prospects».

Then last month, he reversed course on the health - care bill, voting against it along with 33 of his Democratic colleagues after supporting it for months.

Last Monday Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced a natural pause in the progress of the Government's Health and Social Care Bill in order to take further soundings about it all.

Changes in the House since the health care bill passed last fall leave Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.)

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

Nor does the bill mention the Cures Acceleration Network (CAN), a drug development program created by last year's health care reform law.

President Bill Clinton promised last week that his plan to overhaul the US health care system would «speed research on effective prevention and treatment» for chronic diseases and «safeguard the finest medical research establishment in the entire world».

Any health - insurance - reform bill adopted by the Congress must include provisions that specifically target the health - care needs of children and adolescents, child - health advocates said last week.

Posted on May 8, 2017 · The U.S. House of Representatives last week (May 4, 2017) passed the latest iteration of the American Health Care Act, a bill designed to replace — or at least refine — elements of the Affordable Care Act, including a provision that critics say would undermine protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Not having health insurance: Yes, the GOP tax bill repealed Obamacare's individual mandate, but it was still in effect for tax year 2017, so, if you went without a health care plan last year, you face a penalty of either 2.5 % of your taxable income or $ 695, whichever is greater.

Rather than press forward with a climate bill in the Senate last summer, after the House had passed landmark legislation to curb carbon pollution, the administration repeated many of the same mistakes it made in pushing for health care reform.

For example, we routinely help resolve medical billing issues that arise even after a case is over; we assist with health insurance denials of necessary medical care; we ensure public benefits are preserved when appropriate, and we ensure that appropriate trusts and / or sound financial plans are set - up so that settlement funds last.

Last month, Judge Bill MacDonald ordered a 70 year old woman accussed of arson into the care of the Department of Health.

Last year's post (and others before that) focused on Congress» failure to act on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act - a bill to fund health care for sick and dying 9/11 woHealth and Compensation Act - a bill to fund health care for sick and dying 9/11 wohealth care for sick and dying 9/11 workers.

Just in the last two months, Arizona has taken two CAP bills all the way to the Supreme Court, where they were refused review: HB 2036, the 20 - week abortion ban, and HB 2800, which attempted to deny women with Medicaid coverage the right to access health care services at a provider of their choosing.

The barrage of bills that attack women and reproductive health care has been seemingly endless over the last three years — and, to what end?

Some of the provisions in the Ohio budget, including a provision designed to block funds for preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health centers, are similar to bills that were defeated last legislative session.

After publicly describing the bill as a priority last week, Governor McDonnell backtracked on his support for an initial version of the bill because of public outcry, and worked to push through a bill that still shames women seeking reproductive health care.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Planned Parenthood Federation of America condemned funding bills approved by the House Appropriations Committee last night that would be devastating for women and their access to health care both in the United States and around the world.