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 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 Aidan Mattis The “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017” just passed the House Ways and Means committee, but will it pass the Senate? Republicans have voted to fully repeal Obamacare six times since it passed in 2011, but the measure has been defeated each time. Now, a fully Republican…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Brett Chandrasekhar For years, Republicans have talked about repealing and replacing Obamacare. What they didn’t tell you is that they wanted to repeal and replace the individual mandate too. Before Rand Paul had seen the bill created by Republican leadership, he was already hearing rumors that it included the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie President Donald Trump insisted that tax reform is not an option until the White House and Congress can push through a plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Obamacare reform has to come first because it has such drastic effects on the tax code, the president said at…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By LikeALibertarian On Thursday former Republican House Speaker John Boehner said repeal and replace of Obamacare was “happy talk.” He explained that it’s too difficult to get lawmakers to agree on anything: “In the 25 years that I served in the United States Congress, Republicans never, ever, one time agreed on…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Senator Rand Paul and the House Freedom Caucus took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce the caucus’ endorsement of Paul and Rep. Mark Sanford’s bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, utilizing Americans Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Today @ 1PM I'm holding a press conference w/ @RepSanfordSC & members of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Juliegrace Brufke GOP Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul introduced his Obamacare replacement plan Tuesday, calling on Republican lawmakers to “repeal and replace” the legislation simultaneously. Under the proposal, individual and employer mandates would be eliminated while popular provisions from the Affordable Care Act — including allowing dependents to stay on…
By: Elias J. Atienza Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has been one of the leaders in the GOP’s fight to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. He has rankled Republican Senate leaders by refusing to vote for a budget that would repeal Obamacare but not replace it, along with raising the debt by…