The battleground
over Obamacare reached new heights this week with mounting fallout over US President Donald Trump's failure to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act.
The greatest savings were in Cheyenne, WY, where a 30 - year - old man and woman would save 80 percent and 79 percent respectively by choosing term insurance
over an Obamacare plan.
I'd write that scene with the details you'd expect, I suppose, but I'd have the assassins argue
over the Obamacare while pouring concrete.
There have been battles, too,
over an Obamacare expansion of Medicaid, how much state - owned land to set aside for conservation and residency requirements for city employees.
«On the right, the Common Core is really a proxy fight
over Obamacare and concerns about slippery slopes and federal involvement in state and local self - determination,» says Hess.
During negotiations
over Obamacare, PhRMA agreed to support overhauling health care relatively early in the process, in mid-2009.
But the road ahead may not be as smooth as it was under Bush's tenure, largely due to partisan tensions
over Obamacare that could roil the process.
Bishop and other GOP legislators expressed no such concerns, of course, when Tea Party activists shouted down politicians during town hall meetings
over Obamacare, or showed up armed at rallies to protest gun control.
There's a new front in the battle
over Obamacare: Republican congressional staffers are angry at their bosses for trying to deprive them of affordable insurance.
And lastly, is the current language in the bill what Republicans were fighting for in 2013 when the government shut down for 16 days during the continuing resolution fight
over Obamacare?
(CNN)- Dueling ads
over Obamacare will hit the airwaves this week, as a conservative group raises questions about the rollout of the president's sweeping health care reform, while a group on the other end of the political spectrum unveils a new TV spot seeking to defend the comprehensive program.
White House, House GOP trade three - word barbs
over ObamaCare.
Looking nationally, the DCCC hit potentially vulnerable House Republicans
over Obamacare repeal soon afterwards, in part to test messages for future TV buys.
Imagine an alternate universe in which Republicans had NOT shut down the government or held the debt ceiling hostage
over Obamacare funding.
After a blistering defeat
over Obamacare, the prospects of significant reform are slim.
20 states sue federal government
over Obamacare.
As the fight
over Obamacare and Trumpcare continues to swirl, billionaire investor Mark Cuban made clear his views on health care in a recent interview.
«I do think that Republicans have found that trying to shut down the government or threatening the full faith and credit of the United States of America
over Obamacare was something that the American public had very little patience for,» deputy press secretary Joshua Earnest told me at the White House press briefing on Thursday.
My answer to that question then was that, despite seven year's worth of rancorous rhetoric
over Obamacare, a substantial core of GOP senators didn't truly want to be saddled with owning its replacement — particularly, an unpopular and inadequate one.
Not exact matches
Even though Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, the debate
over replacing
Obamacare has revealed the unified government to be more like a dysfunctional family at a Christmas dinner.
Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats have stalled even though the program enjoys broad bipartisan support
over the all - important issue of funding, with Democrats balking at proposals cut an
Obamacare public health fund to finance an extension of CHIP.
Over the past few years, CGI has come in for some unflattering headlines — it built the
Obamacare health - care registration website that had an infamously rocky start — but that doesn't seem to have harmed its growth.
The trouble with that setup is that it could, as the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) trade group recently warned, substantially raise premiums for the sick and medically needy, who would stampede
over to the more generous
Obamacare - compliant plans and thus make those plans far more costly.
The debate
over legislation to overhaul
Obamacare is getting increasingly heated, with Senate Democrats reportedly planning to gum up the works in the Senate as much as possible to protest the GOP's secretive approach to drafting the legislation (there is still no bill text available).
But the saga of Republicans» efforts to repeal
Obamacare isn't
over yet.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that the House would start working on repealing and replacing
Obamacare «right away,» but with a transition period to allow changes to be phased in
over time.
The uncertainty Trump is sowing
over the payments — known as cost - sharing - reduction payments — has left insurers jittery and contemplating leaving the individual insurance exchanges created by the ACA, the healthcare law better known as
Obamacare.
The plan's contribution is that it both curbs future spending by a big number ---- $ 3.7 trillion
over the next two decades ---- and lowers future taxes by eliminating $ 1.6 trillion in
ObamaCare levies.
It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since
Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage
over the last three years.
Trump's election has led to a veritable surge in
Obamacare signups as uncertainty reins
over the health law's future.
Third, fourteen million fewer Americans would enroll in Medicaid, the program that insures around half of the well
over 20 million Americans who gained coverage through
Obamacare.
Similarly, Jerry Moran of Kansas has expressed worry
over the repeal of
Obamacare's individual mandate and his own state of Kansas» failed history with tax cuts.
No matter where one stands on the debate
over safety - net programs like welfare and food stamps, or massive federal undertakings like
Obamacare, everyone agrees that those need taxation to fund them.
This means the bill would still slice significant federal healthcare funding
over the next 10 years and eliminate the Medicaid expansion introduced by
Obamacare altogether after that.
The worst performer in Buffett's portfolio was DaVita (dva), the health care dialysis company that treats patients with diabetes and whose stock has been punished by uncertainty
over the Affordable Care Act, better known as
Obamacare.
Republicans say their tactics on tax reform are at the very least no worse than the debate
over the Affordable Care Act, or
Obamacare, which passed through a Democratic - controlled Congress in 2010.
During a CNN debate
over the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as
Obamacare, Sen. Bernie Sanders asked Sen. Ted Cruz if healthcare should be a right for all Americans.
The CBO now expects
Obamacare to cost $ 1.375 trillion
over the next decade, which is $ 12 billion more than previously estimated.
Trump, who had predicted success for McConnell's repeal - and - replace legislation just hours earlier, urged
over Twitter: «Republicans should just REPEAL failing
ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate.
Unable to win
over enough votes to pass the bill meant to repeal and replace
Obamacare, Trump ordered Ryan to pull it from the House.
The legal battle is
over whether subsidies that are key to the implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known as
Obamacare, should be available in all 50 states or only in some.
Comedian Chelsea Handler and conservative commentator Tomi Lahren faced off
over the Affordable Care Act Saturday, just two days after Senate Republicans failed to repeal the heath care law, also known as
Obamacare.
President Donald Trump may be fuming
over Republicans» failure to repeal and replace
Obamacare, but he can certainly take solace in the GOP's swift overhaul of the Obama administration's energy and environmental agenda.
The GOP Senate's efforts to repeal
Obamacare with its own health care bill have been on the brink of defeat
over the past 48 hours.
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Price received plenty of scrutiny
over his views on what to do about
Obamacare (including the extent to which he will use his administrative role to dismantle the law) and his investments in a number of biopharma companies that would have benefited from legislation that he championed.
Over 20 million Americans have healthcare now as a result of
Obamacare, not an insignificant number.
Edwards» predecessor, Republican Bobby Jindal, had been among the national leaders in opposition to
Obamacare's Medicaid expansion — Jindal argued it would cost the state at least $ 1.7 billion
over a decade.
As President - elect Trump waits to take
over the helm at the White House, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA)-- commonly referred to as
Obamacare — will be a top priority for his administration.
Some of these public servants are right in saying, «Let's do it right this time» because, remember, the rush job under
Obamacare gave us what we're having to deal with today, which is the devastating system that is again lorded
over us,» Palin said.