08 May, 2017
Amash said he only supported the bill because it is a "marginal improvement" to ObamaCare, not because he wholly agrees with the legislation.
Obama made the remark Sunday night in Boston while accepting the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Shouldn't be hard since it was a Republican health care plan before Obama hijacked it.
The new United States healthcare bill is "a great plan", according to President Donald Trump. "Long live the Republican Party". But despite amendments offered to the AHCA by the House Republicans to get enough members on board, Republican senators have expressed serious doubts regarding the bill. "Trump got carried away and grabbed a pu**y, [House Speaker Representative] Paul Ryan".
Ryan (R-Wis.), also on the program, said the new health care bill "is a rescue mission to make sure that we can achieve the goals we all want, which is getting the cost of coverage down and making sure that everyone has access to affordable health care, especially and including people with pre-existing conditions". He vowed those with pre-existing conditions, for example, would be protected under health care changes - absolutely, positively.
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates heads to Capitol Hill Monday to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador and her efforts to warn the Trump administration about Flynn's changing story.
But he's defending the House version anyway. The GOP plan would allow states to waive that provision for insurers, enabling them to charge much higher rates to those with pre-existing conditions. "So much discretion is given to the states without any guardrails", she said.
They put "billions upon billions of dollars into high-risk pools to buy down any premium that they would have to pay for, and that's just in the House bill", he said.
The White House said Trump didn't mean anything by it (although he then doubled down on his words with a tweet) but if you're in the mood to have a celebration of your own, lift a glass to what he told the Australian PM and make a toast to blowing up this bogus health care reform bill and giving us what Americans truly need - Medicare for all.
After Trump's biggest legislative victory yet, momentum slows as the Senate settles in to rework the bill and Russia's election interference takes center stage in hearings.
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, criticized coverage of the Republican legislation, which the Congressional Budget Office said would leave 24 million more Americans without health insurance than under current law.
Collins is a moderate senator whose vote will be important in the narrowly divided Senate.
Last year, almost 13 million people claimed exemptions from the mandate to obtain health insurance, citing financial hardship or other reasons, and 6.5 million paid the penalty for lacking insurance (averaging $470) rather than choose a marketplace.
Collins, however, said one of the problems with the tax credit in the House bill is that it's not adjusted for variations in income and geographic regions across the U.S. That "really hurts a state like ME, where we have an older population" living in rural areas where health care is more expensive, she said.
Joining Gillibrand at a news conference Sunday was Erin Schick, who was working on her master's degree at Columbia University when she came down with something. First, they want you to believe that throwing all sick people into one high-risk pool will cost those sick people no more than it cost them when those costs were spread out among all Americans under Obamacare.
She spoke on ABC's "This Week". Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget director, said the House bill is unlikely to be the version that ultimately clears the Senate and ends up in front of the president.
Eager to check off a top campaign promise, Trump sought Sunday to pressure Senate Republicans on the issue.
It's a "health problem you had before the date that new health coverage starts", the US Department of Health and Human Services says. Would it make any material difference to the millions of Americans in danger of losing their health insurance if their elected officials had bothered to lie about having read the bill?
"Imagine a Medicaid system that actually works better for patients", Price said.
