LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke House Speaker Paul Ryan asserted House Republicans are “very close” to coming together on a deal to repeal and replace Obamacare during a question-and-answer session following a Wednesday address to the U.K. think tank Policy Exchange in London. Ryan said GOP lawmakers prevailed in the 2016 election largely…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Insurance companies are desperately trying to figure out President Donald Trump’s next move on health care reform as the deadline for filing 2018 plans on the Obamacare marketplaces approaches. The providers are particularly concerned with what he will do with cost sharing reductions (CSRs), a little known…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke Just weeks after President Donald Trump called on Congress to table repealing and replacing Obamacare and instead move forward on tax reform, he has reversed course, saying health care reform should once again be GOP lawmakers top priority. The comments came after the administration rebooted its efforts to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Members of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) are facing constituents for the first time since they opposed President Donald Trump’s first legislative effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. The majority of Republican voters in 2016 cast their ballots for candidates promising to upend former President Barack Obama’s…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie The House Freedom Caucus (HFC) is signaling its willingness to throw support behind Republicans’ newest plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. Following the humiliating defeat of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in March, the White House and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan are desperately trying…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan have said they are willing to let Obamacare “implode,” but doing so tacitly lets a potentially unconstitutional program continue. Under the leadership of former Speaker John Boehner, the House filed suit against the Obama administration in 2014,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield President Donald Trump, via a series of tweets, under the mist of a brewing weekend and dying news cycle, has announced a new bipartisan health care plan to “Make America Great Again.” Trump started the night picking up where he left off, spouting disdain for the principled…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck The Intercept is reporting: Over the last seven years, the GOP has won successive elections by highlighting problems with Obamacare, airing more than $235 million in negative ads slamming the law, and staging more than 50 high-profile repeal votes. In 2016 every major Republican presidential candidate, including Donald Trump, campaigned on a pledge to quickly get…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent, a chair of the moderate Tuesday Group, said conservatives in the House are largely responsible for the downfall of the Obamacare repeal bill Friday. According to Dent, too many concessions were given to the House Freedom Caucus, which led to the loss of moderate…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is happy the American Health Care Act (AHCA) failed to make its way through Congress, but admits Obamacare isn’t a perfect system. President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced Friday that they were pulling the bill just hours before it…