The reaction to the long-awaited secret Senate bill to destroy health care and give tax cuts to the rich is not going well for Republicans. No one was expecting it to be good news, but it turns out that the Senate version — crafted in secret, by a group of 13 Republican men — is […]

Donald Trump’s budget director said months ago that he did not believe diabetics deserve health insurance. Now, in their recently revealed health care bill, Senate Republicans are working to enshrine this callous mindset into the law. Senate Republicans have finally released the text of their health care bill, devised and negotiated in private by 13 […]

Former President Barack Obama tore into the health care bill finally revealed by Senate Republicans in a Facebook post. Arguing well beyond the 140-character Twitter rants that Donald Trump has relied on, Obama dismantled the Republican argument for dismantling health care reform, and pointed out the devastating effect it would have if enacted into law. […]

Elizabeth Warren did not mince words when she took to the Senate floor to decry the brutal Medicaid cuts in the Republican health care repeal bill. “These cuts are blood money,” she said. “People will die.” Republicans have made it clear they do not want to hear from Democrats. Or women. Or even Medicaid patients who […]

Medicaid recipients showed up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office to protest the Republicans’ disastrous health care repeal bill. These patients would be especially harmed by the bill that includes deep cuts to Medicaid. But just as Democrats and the public at large were excluded from the Senate GOP’s process of crafting the bill, […]

The super secret Senate GOP health care bill is finally out, and it’s not as bad as everyone had feared. It’s worse. The bill targets the elderly, the working-class, people with disabilities, people with pre-existing conditions — and of course Planned Parenthood. Not only does the bill “defund” Planned Parenthood, by blocking it from participating […]

The Trump White House is again pushing reporters to turn off their cameras and audio recording devices and return to the continuing farce that they have made of the daily press briefing. In an advisory released by the White House, the briefing for June 22 was marked as “Off Camera (not for broadcast or audio).” […]

Republican senators may not want to talk to their constituents about Trumpcare, but folks sure want to talk to them. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio is still on the fence about the health care repeal bill, because of possible cuts to Medicaid and concerns about the opioid crisis in his state. But for over a month […]

It seems nothing can get Senate Republicans to budge from their stubborn secrecy regarding their health care repeal bill. The American people disapprove of the GOP’s actions, and their own Democratic colleagues have tried in vain to demand involvement in the process. But Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are determined to keep their […]

Health insurer Anthem Inc. announced that it is being driven out of the Obamacare health exchanges in Wisconsin and Indiana as a result of Donald Trump’s attacks on the industry and health care system. In a press release, Anthem said, “Planning and pricing for ACA-compliant health plans has become increasingly difficult due to a shrinking […]

The Republican plan to undo Obamacare and strip millions of their health insurance is incredibly unpopular, even in extremely conservative congressional districts. Vox reports on a new poll from the University of Maryland of voters in those areas finds that 63 percent of them reject the legislation backed by Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, […]

The Trump administration has relentlessly attacked Planned Parenthood for months. From gutting federal funding for family planning through Title X, to barring Planned Parenthood specifically from participating in any federal programs, to pushing the Republicans’ health care repeal plan that punishes women for being women, this White House has tried at every turn to hobble the health […]

Arizona Sen. John McCain can always be counted on for a good, angry quote about his fellow Republicans. But when it comes to actually standing up to his party, the self-proclaimed maverick is anything but. Now McCain is joining some of his fellow Republican senators in feigning outrage at how the all-male group of 13 […]

Donald Trump has made another admission behind closed doors about the health care initiative he and his party strongly back. CNBC reports that during a closed-door meeting with top technology CEOs, Trump admitted the Senate health care legislation needs “more heart.” Those comments echo Trump’s characterization of the House health care bill as “mean.” Despite […]

Senate Republicans appear to still be dead set on forcing through their secretive health care bill, despite vocal and fervent opposition. Americans across the country disapprove of the GOP’s plan, which Republican leadership is trying to jam through without involvement by or hearings with Democrats, and without even the input of women from their own […]

Senior aide to Donald Trump Kellyanne Conway appeared within the friendly confines of Fox News to complain that Democrats in Congress are still refusing to help the administration’s efforts to destroy Obamacare. Conway lamented that the response from Democrats thus far has been “hashtag resistance.” She noted that Trump has not been able to convince […]

Our nation’s patient advocacy groups are experts in the health care challenges our family members face. They understand the complexities of the medical issues with which they contend and the system they must navigate to get the care they need. Republicans say they embrace the notion of “patient-centered care” — health care that serves the […]

Vice President Mike went to Congress to meet with his former fellow conservative House members and demand their support on the bill to repeal Obamacare. And when he blasted them for withholding their support, they cried. According to Politico, Pence crashed what was supposed to be a secret meeting of the House’s uber-conservative House Freedom […]

The Republican Party is still clinging to its secret health care repeal plan, despite the fact that the bill is massively unpopular. Millions of people would be harmed by the bill’s passage, and a new report shows that it would also lead to the loss of nearly one million jobs. But none of that has dissuaded […]

The way Senate Republicans are trying to push through their super secret bill to repeal health care is egregious for a number of reasons. But their exclusion of women from the process is especially odious. The Senate version of the bill is being written in secret, by a group of 13 Republican men and no women. […]

Americans really do not approve of the job Donald Trump is doing. And that is especially true when it comes to his handling of health care. In a new poll from Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, filled with terrible numbers for Trump — including a stunning 65 percent who think he has little or no respect […]

One of the few details that has leaked from the secret GOP Senate meetings on repealing Obamacare is that Senate Republicans — just like Speaker Paul Ryan and his House colleagues — want to eliminate the Medicaid expansion. That means 14 million people in 31 states and D.C. would lose coverage if the GOP bill becomes law. […]

Senate Republicans are continuing to negotiate their health care repeal in complete secrecy, behind closed doors, with no amendments and no Democratic input. From the outset, the GOP working group was also criticized for including 13 men and no women. Increasingly, their exclusion of women does not seem like an accident, given the way women in […]

Democrat Ron Wyden, the senior senator from Oregon, has four words of advice for Americans concerned about the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare: “This is go time.” “I can’t remember a more urgent need with respect to health care,” Wyden said in an exclusive interview with Shareblue. The time for the millions of Americans whose lives […]

As the Senate prepares to pass an Obamacare repeal bill in secret, Capitol hill reporters were told Tuesday they can no longer film interviews with senators in the hallway, as they’ve been doing every day for years. The new conditions are striking. Not only does the senator being interviewed have to consent in advance, but the Senate Rules Committee […]

After House Speaker Paul Ryan forced through a nightmarish Obamacare repeal bill that would strip 23 million people of health care and send insurance markets in much of the country into a death spiral, Senate Republicans immediately tried to disavow the bill and position themselves as the grown-ups. “We’re writing a Senate bill and not passing the […]

While the fired former director of the FBI testified to the Senate that Donald Trump is a liar who attempted to obstruct justice and is unconcerned about Russia trying to hack our democracy, the White House tried to focus on “infrastructure week.” The highlights of “infrastructure week,” according to White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway? “Infrastructure […]

There’s a strain of thought that Republicans in Congress will stick with Donald Trump despite the heartburn, because he’s helping to finally enact the privatized trickle-down objectivist America of their dreams. The problem with that logic is that Trump isn’t doing that.  Set aside the fact that Trump couldn’t explain conservative philosophy if you promised him three […]

While everyone was paying attention to the explosive allegations in James Comey’s testimony, Senate Republicans are quietly trying to seize their chance to fast-track Obamacare repeal. No one can say with certainty what the finished Senate bill will look like — because it is a secret. The bill is being negotiated behind closed doors by a “working […]

During her first debate with Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District race, Republican Karen Handel tried and failed to defend her troubling record of cutting funding for breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood. She disingenuously claimed that, while serving as the vice president for public policy at Susan G. Komen For the Cure, she […]