Long time GOP stalwart Orin Hatch
says Obamacare supporters are «the stupidest dumbass people», Moo cow Claudia Tenney says mass murders are all Democrats and Rump accuses Democrats of treason.
The senator is here to conduct a «hospital town hall» event — his 58th in a series aimed at cataloguing the havoc
he says Obamacare will wreak on health care providers across the state.
Forty - nine percent of small - business owners surveyed
said Obamacare is a top worry for them, up from 42 percent in January.
The administration and congressional Republicans
say Obamacare's economics were wobbly even before Mr. Trump came along, after lackluster enrollment resulted in double - digit price increases and the exodus of major insurers from the program.
Say that Obamacare's a bad idea, I'm happy to have a discussion.
And don't
say Obamacare, that's a disaster and you know it.
A day after Bill Clinton
said Obamacare was «the craziest thing in the world,» Hillary Clinton showed support for President Obama's signature health care initiative, saying, «It's a heck of a lot better than starting from scratch.»
Faso, who proved to be the deciding vote for the bill in the budget committee, said there is now no point in trying to pass a sweeping legislative package, and
said Obamacare needs to be repaired if it can't be replaced.
Reed
said Obamacare's problems may have to grow worse before Congress attempts to change the program again.
Mitt Romney said it best when
he said Obamacare was always «a liberal pipedream... a 2,700 page, multi-trillion-dollar Federal Government takeover of our health care system.»
If the states had taken the lead, then I'd
say Obamacare would be a good interim.
On December 26, 2011 Pipes posted the article «Doctors
Say Obamacare is No Remedy for US Health Woes,» to Forbes.
GOP leaders
say the Obamacare mandate's penalty — $ 695 for individuals — falls disproportionately on lower - and middle - income people.
Not exact matches
«We weren't quite sure what the
Obamacare proposal was going to be in November 2008,» he
says.
«You get rid of
Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs,» Bush
said.
CBO is
saying that children and their families who flock to
Obamacare markets in the absence of CHIP would be more expensive for the federal government to cover than simply extending CHIP.
«We should not make the mistakes of the past that has led to
Obamacare's collapse, including in my home state of Arizona where premiums are skyrocketing and health care providers are fleeing the marketplace,» he
said.
Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace
Obamacare earlier this year,
says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.
(Paul
said yesterday the bill «does not repeal
Obamacare,» and that he would oppose it in its current form.)
An estimated 23 million people would lose health coverage by 2026 under Republican legislation aimed at repealing
Obamacare, a nonpartisan congressional agency
said on Wednesday in the first calculation of the new bill's potential impact.
President Donald Trump, who made replacing
Obamacare a key campaign promise in 2016, and other Republicans
say it is too costly and creates unwarranted government interference in healthcare decisions.
«Last night's death of the health bill is an unmitigated disaster for Trump, who
said last year that it would be easy to replace
Obamacare with «something terrific,»» Valliere wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday.
«From our standpoint, we want to make sure that as many people as possible maintain (insurance) coverage,»
said Dr. Mario Molina, CEO of Molina Healthcare (moh), which provides Medicaid and
Obamacare individual insurance plans.
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.
Prices of
Obamacare insurance rose about 25 % for 2017 and large insurers including UnitedHealth Group (unh) have abandoned plans for next year,
saying that they are losing too much money on sick customers.
«
Obamacare is dead next month if it doesn't get that money,» Trump
said.
And while the bill's supporters argue that the legislation is a sensible fix that gives states much - needed flexibility on health care programs, the AMA, AAMC, and AARP
say it would benefit the young, the healthy, and the rich at the expense of the old, the sick, and the poor by taking hacksaw to the Medicaid program that covers low - income Americans and allowing states to opt out of benefits requirements and other regulations under
Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act.
While the Alaska senator did release an op - ed
saying she supported the repeal of the
Obamacare's individual mandate in the tax bill, she also called for a simultaneous passage of the Alexander - Murray
Obamacare stabilization package.
More Americans will be left with zero to few insurers selling
Obamacare health plans in 2018, CMS
said.
A cybersecurity expert
says it could take a year to secure the risk of «high exposures» of personal information on the federal
Obamacare online exchange.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway
says people on Medicaid who will lose coverage under the Republican plan to repeal
Obamacare could find jobs that provide health insurance.
«
Obamacare took Medicaid, which was designed to help the poor, the needy, the sick, disabled, also children and pregnant women, it took it and went way above the poverty line to many able - bodied Americans,» she
said.
On Sunday, a Journal editorial defended NFIB,
saying that many small business owners oppose «
ObamaCare» and the tax burden it places on companies.
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.
«Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of
Obamacare will not be successful,» McConnell
said in a statement that sounded like a death knell to the GOP's promises to repeal
Obamacare and replace it with something better.
U.S. Senate Republicans» version of a tax cut bill will delay corporate rate cuts by one year to take effect in 2019, and will not include a repeal of
Obamacare's individual mandate, Republican Senate Finance Committee member Bill Cassidy
said ahead of the plan's release later on Thursday.
Lee
said, «In addition to not repealing all of the
Obamacare taxes, it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families; nor does it create enough free space from the most costly
Obamacare regulations.»
People will like it a lot,» he
said while slamming
Obamacare's affect on health care.
«To
say there are things from
Obamacare that are not positive, that's not true.»
«
Obamacare's mandates saddled many with health care costs they simply couldn't afford,»
said White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Executives
said the return of the
Obamacare health insurance tax next year will pose a 75 - cent - per - share headwind to profits.
During his first State of the Union address in February, Trump
said that Congress had «repealed the core of disastrous
Obamacare,» citing the nixing of the health law's individual mandate (which requires Americans to either carry insurance or pay a tax penalty) that passed alongside the recent GOP tax overhaul.
Now the efforts to deal with
Obamacare may push corporate tax reform on the back burner, they
said.
Former Medtronic CEO Bill George
says to fix
Obamacare we must address the root problem with American health care.
Steven Corwin, who heads up New York - Presbyterian's $ 7 billion - in - revenue per year health system,
says that a dramatic reversal of
Obamacare's insurance expansion would spell trouble for hospitals by bloating the ranks of uninsured patients.
Aetna (aet)
said it intended to withdraw plans to expand its
Obamacare business next year, and the U.S. health insurer announced the sale of some Medicare Advantage assets to get antitrust nod for its takeover of Humana (hum).
U.S. health insurer Anthem
said on Friday it will exit
Obamacare markets in Virginia and reduce its plan offerings in Washington and Scott counties and the city of Bristol next year.
On Monday, Anthem (antm)
said it would no longer offer
Obamacare plans in Nevada's state exchange and half of Georgia's counties in 2018.
The results echo long - held worries by small - business owners about the impact of
Obamacare, which some
say will threaten an employment recovery.
Kluding did
say in his statement that some Florida Blue customers decided to drop their old plans because of the better deals offered in new plans they could get under
Obamacare.