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09/28/2017 / By JD Heyes

Republican liars sink latest effort to dismantle Obamacare, even though it would have stabilized insurance rates

In all my years of covering health care policy, I cannot remember a more stellar example of voter betrayal than the GOP establishment’s flat-out refusal to deliver on the Republican Party promise to repeal and replace the disaster that is Obamacare. For seven years party elders and GOP rank-and-file promised that when they were given […]

05/08/2017 / By JD Heyes

How to solve the “healthcare crisis” – let states come up with their OWN plans

It’s become obvious that the big donors and their lobbyists on K Street – the biggest and most disgusting part of the “swamp” President Donald J. Trump has pledged to drain – don’t care much for the president’s agenda. It’s expected that the Obstructionist Party – that would be the Democrats – have no intention […]

03/27/2017 / By JD Heyes

Trump: Nothing to do now but “let Obamacare explode” after House fails to garner enough votes for “Obamacare Lite”

A clearly disappointed President Donald J. Trump said on Friday after it became apparent that Republicans in the House would not have enough votes to pass what many saw as a watered-down version of the Affordable Care Act, dubbed “Obamacare Lite.” As reported by Grabien News, the president, who sat in the Oval Office flanked […]

03/26/2017 / By JD Heyes

The top 5 biggest Obamacare fails and why Republicans and Trump should try again to repeal and replace

Congressional Democrats and their supporters on the far Left are cheering the failure of the Republican-led Congress’ first attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare. But their glee masks the awful truth about the health care “reform” law they and Barack Obama imposed on the country: The law has been an unmitigated failure and is now […]

03/26/2017 / By JD Heyes

Trump assures Americans: “Do not worry” about health care repeal, it will get done

In an attempt to downplay the GOP’s failure to advance an Obamacare repeal and replace measure on Friday, President Donald J. Trump used Twitter to instill in Americans that it will eventually get done. “Obamacare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not […]

03/22/2017 / By JD Heyes

Rand Paul predicts Ryan-backed Obamacare replacement legislation will be pulled before Thursday vote

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, one of a number of GOP lawmakers opposed to the American Health Care Act, has predicted there won’t be enough votes to pass it, causing it to be withdrawn and forcing Republican leaders to start over. The AHCA is the bill touted by House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and backed by […]

03/14/2017 / By JD Heyes

Trump meets with Obamacare victims at White House during “listening session” Obama never held

From the outset, former President Obama planned to ram through the Affordable Care Act, which became better known as “Obamacare,” without any Republican input or assistance, because he and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate in 2010 knew they had the congressional majority to get it done. (Related: to keep up with conservative news, […]

03/14/2017 / By JD Heyes

New CBO analysis of GOP healthcare bill predicts 14 million fewer Americans covered, but Obamacare didn’t cover everyone, either

As expected, the Congressional Budget Office on Monday released its assessment of the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. Also as expected, some rank-and-file members of the GOP are nervous already because it might cover 14 million fewer Americans than are covered now. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Republican majority, you all need to […]

03/13/2017 / By JD Heyes

Obamacare’s “death spiral” spreading from insurance companies to Medicaid as collapse is imminent

When former President Barack Obama and Democrats got together to scheme ways to prevent the Affordable Care Act from being repealed at some point in the future – because they knew it was never meant to be sustainable – they wrote certain provisions into the law to make it nearly impossible, politically, to repeal. And […]

03/12/2017 / By JD Heyes

President Trump and Congress should keep this one guiding principle in mind when “reforming” Obamacare

The House leadership has offered up what will no doubt be one of several iterations of so-called “repeal” of Obamacare, that behemoth health “reform” legislation that has entered into a death spiral after just a few short years in existence. The new bill, called the American Health Care Act, which admittedly did pass out of […]

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