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Joe Biden To Expand Affordable Care Act Enrollment & Reverse Abortion Restrictions In Latest Executive Orders

Joe Biden To Expand Affordable Care Act Enrollment & Reverse Abortion Restrictions In Latest Executive Orders

President Joe Biden will sign two more executive orders on Thursday that will revoke a Trump administration abortion policy and expand access to the Affordable Care Act, as reported by NPR. The order related to abortion will rescind the Mexico City Policy, a government policy that denies federal funding for non-governmental organizations that provide abortion […]

3y ago

Donald Trump Mocked For Order That Insurances Cover Pre-Existing Conditions, Already The Law Under Obamacare

Donald Trump Mocked For Order That Insurances Cover Pre-Existing Conditions, Already The Law Under Obamacare

Donald Trump is facing some mockery for proposing an executive order mandating that insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions — which critics noted has already been the law for close to a decade under Obamacare. As The Hill reported, the president teased the order on Friday, saying he was in favor of the idea and apparently […]

4y ago

Lindsey Graham Vows To Pull Plug On ObamaCare If GOP Wins Back House In 2020

Lindsey Graham Vows To Pull Plug On ObamaCare If GOP Wins Back House In 2020

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham promised to a home state audience on Thursday that if Republicans take control of the House in 2020, the Affordable Care Act — known popularly as ObamaCare — will be a distant memory. According to The Hill, during an interview with a South Carolina radio station, Graham promised that the […]

5y ago

While The Nation Focuses On William Barr, Trump Is Quietly Attempting To End Obamacare

While The Nation Focuses On William Barr, Trump Is Quietly Attempting To End Obamacare

As the nation, as a whole, was focused primarily on Attorney General William Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Trump administration attempted to put an end to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) once and for all, Newsweek reports. On Wednesday, the president formally asked a federal appeals court to put an end to […]

5y ago

The President’s New Call To Dismantle Obamacare Highlights That Program Didn’t ‘Implode’ As Trump Predicted

The President’s New Call To Dismantle Obamacare Highlights That Program Didn’t ‘Implode’ As Trump Predicted

Last week, President Donald Trump surprised adversaries and allies alike by suddenly renewing his call to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, The Los Angeles Times reports. In doing so he indicated that Republicans would develop a superior plan. Trump has reportedly ordered the Justice Department to instruct a federal court that […]

5y ago

Trump Faces Opposition From Courts In ‘Unlawful’ Fight Against Obamacare And Medicaid

Trump Faces Opposition From Courts In ‘Unlawful’ Fight Against Obamacare And Medicaid

President Donald Trump is having trouble with his attempts to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — also known as Obamacare — and reshape Medicaid due to opposition from the courts. Most recently, federal judges ruled against two of Trump’s proposals — Medicaid work requirements and association health plans. Per Vox, some of Trump’s defeats […]

5y ago

Pelosi Shushed House, Halting Their Singing Of ‘Happy Birthday’

Pelosi Shushed House, Halting Their Singing Of ‘Happy Birthday’

It was an awkward moment, one captured by C-SPAN, when Nancy Pelosi addressed the House of Representatives from the floor this morning. She announced it was her birthday, and the gathered representatives stood and applauded. “No singing, no singing,” she said. When some of the members began the opening bars of “Happy Birthday,” she delicately […]

5y ago

Trump Will Ask Court To Toss Entire Affordable Care Act

Trump Will Ask Court To Toss Entire Affordable Care Act

On Monday the administration of President Donald Trump officially adopted a much more aggressive stance toward the Affordable Care Act, asking the courts to throw out the legislation entirely, according to HuffPost. Previously, Trump had signaled that he wanted the courts to toss out just parts of the law, but now it seems he is […]

5y ago

A California Judge Has Paused Trump’s Efforts To Alter Obamacare’s Contraceptive Mandate

A California Judge Has Paused Trump’s Efforts To Alter Obamacare’s Contraceptive Mandate

President Trump has been increasingly vocal regarding his desire to dissemble Obamacare and alter the landscape of American health care. In an attempt to weaken an Obamacare mandate on contraceptives, he planned to take away regulations set in place by the previous administration. However, his plan was quickly foiled when a California Judge halted his […]

6y ago

Joe Manchin Wields Shotgun In Dramatic New Campaign Ad

Joe Manchin Wields Shotgun In Dramatic New Campaign Ad

Following on from imagery used in his 2010 campaign, West Virginia’s Democratic Senator Joe Manchin has released a new ad — this time wielding a shotgun to take aim at a lawsuit against Obamacare reports ABC News. In his 2010 campaign, Manchin did a similar ad, taking up his rifle and shooting at an anti-coal […]

6y ago

VP Pence Stops Trump From Wandering Away From An Executive Order Signing Ceremony Again

VP Pence Stops Trump From Wandering Away From An Executive Order Signing Ceremony Again

Earlier today, Vice President Mike Pence was forced for the second time in months to prevent President Donald Trump from wandering away from an executive order signing ceremony before he had signed the order (see video below). Before signing the executive order, Trump delivered a speech in which he tried to explain how his new […]

7y ago

‘My Wife Would Be A Widow’: Voters React To GOP’s ACA Repeal Effort [Video]

‘My Wife Would Be A Widow’: Voters React To GOP’s ACA Repeal Effort [Video]

Senate Republicans are making a final effort to keep their promise to voters and repeal the Affordable Care Act. There’s just one problem: An awful lot of voters don’t want that. They’ve also got another problem: The clock is ticking and time’s running out. Why? As ABC explains, they can only avoid a bill-killing filibuster […]

7y ago

Tomi Lahren Berated On Twitter For Obamacare Hypocrisy—Here’s What People Are Saying

Tomi Lahren Berated On Twitter For Obamacare Hypocrisy—Here’s What People Are Saying

When Tomi Lahren, a right-wing commentator and Obamacare opponent, admitted she benefits from a key provision of the Affordable Care Act in a recent debate with comedian Chelsea Handler, Twitter users sent out a barrage of tweets ridiculing her for taking up such a hypocritical stance. Lahren has a long history of railing against the […]

7y ago

Trump Fears GOP Looks Like ‘Dopes’ As Support For Obamacare Overhaul Dissolves

Trump Fears GOP Looks Like ‘Dopes’ As Support For Obamacare Overhaul Dissolves

After telling Republican leaders last night that he believes the party would look like “dopes” if they are unable to pass a bill to revamp Obamacare, President Donald Trump awoke this morning to news that even his party’s top man in the Senate believes that the effort is all but dead. Senate Majority Leader Mitch […]

7y ago

Trump Wants Senate To Kill Obamacare ASAP: ‘Repeal Now, Replace Later’

Trump Wants Senate To Kill Obamacare ASAP: ‘Repeal Now, Replace Later’

President Donald Trump has called on Republican senators to immediately repeal Obamacare and replace it with their own health care plan “later.” In a tweet posted early Friday, Trump contradicted a previous statement that he will work on repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with better healthcare legislation at the same time. His […]

7y ago

Another Trumpcare Setback As Health Care Vote Postponed Amid Unyielding Opposition Within Republican Party

Another Trumpcare Setback As Health Care Vote Postponed Amid Unyielding Opposition Within Republican Party

Senator Mitch McConnell announced on Tuesday that the planned Senate vote on one of President Donald Trump’s signature policy promises would be postponed amid unyielding dissent within Republican Party ranks. President Trump has been trying to repeal and replace one of former President Barack Obama’s defining accomplishments, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. […]

7y ago

Republican Health Care: A Mother’s Heartbreaking Plea For Senator To ‘Stand Up To This Immoral Bill’

Republican Health Care: A Mother’s Heartbreaking Plea For Senator To ‘Stand Up To This Immoral Bill’

Earlier this week, West Virginia Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin met members of their constituencies to discuss concerns about the new health care legislation the Senate is planning to roll out in the coming months. Pastor Janice Hill of the First Christian Church in Parkersburg was amongst the group. As a prominent religious […]

7y ago

Details Of Clandestine Senate Health Care Bill Leaked: Will It Get The Votes?

Details Of Clandestine Senate Health Care Bill Leaked: Will It Get The Votes?

Republican Senators have recently come under fire for engaging in what has widely been described as clandestine meetings to draft a revised version of the American Health Care Act (ACHA). President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan failed to pass the first incarnation of the bill earlier this year. The first draft of the […]

7y ago

Did Joe Walsh Actually Mock Jimmy Kimmel’s Baby’s Heart Condition?

Did Joe Walsh Actually Mock Jimmy Kimmel’s Baby’s Heart Condition?

Former congressman Joe Walsh is being ripped apart by social media users for mocking Jimmy Kimmel son’s heart condition. .@jimmykimmel fired back at critics of his emotional health care plea in the best way possible. https://t.co/IgH2AfbNoQ pic.twitter.com/khiJCB40BX — Access Hollywood (@accesshollywood) May 10, 2017 When Jimmy Kimmel went public with a tearful announcement last Monday […]

7y ago

Majority Of Americans Want A Bernie Sanders Single-Payer Healthcare System

Majority Of Americans Want A Bernie Sanders Single-Payer Healthcare System

Bernie Sanders has shown his forward thinking prowess once again as a Gallup poll shows that the majority of Americans, Republicans included, would prefer to replace Obamacare with a completely new single-payer healthcare system like the one that Bernie Sanders has long been advocating. Republicans have been demanding that the Affordable Care Act be replaced […]

7y ago

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