Obamacare
Commentary
The Senate Health Care Bill Is Just Obamacare Lite
After weeks of closed-door negotiations, the Senate Republican leadership on Thursday released its bid to repeal and replace Obamacare. It’s the product of a 13-member Senate working group. The bill is a disappointment. It’s little more than repeal in name only. And its ideas for replacement are almost indistinguishable from ...
Government Spending
Senate Republicans Release Their Obamacare Replacement Plan
Senate Republicans on Thursday announced a wide-ranging plan to roll back the Affordable Care Act, with features that include a dramatic reduction in government spending that could mean millions more Americans will be left uninsured. The plan, unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his team after working on ...
Commentary
Senate Republicans Embrace Obamacare In Their Healthcare Bill
Today, the Senate Republican leadership released its draft of a bill that would supposedly repeal and replace Obamacare. It does neither. With this bill, Senate Republicans are betraying the promises they made on the campaign trail for the better part of seven years. If it passes, the GOP will have ...
California
CAPITAL IDEAS: Majority Party’s War on Trump Is Really War on California’s Middle Class
Download the Brief KUSI television reported on June 12 that “Gov. Brown and the Democrats in Sacramento are in open revolt against President Trump.” While not a new development, it seems to indicate that California is seceding from the Union as it had threatened without providing official notice. Yes, it’s ...
California
Californians Fear Losing Coverage In Obamacare Reform
As the Republican-led U.S. Senate prepares to vote — possibly by next week — to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a new poll shows that 56 percent of Californians worry that they or someone in their family will lose health insurance coverage if the law, commonly called Obamacare, ...
Commentary
Health Insurer Bailouts Have Gone On Long Enough
For years, Democrats have ignored the Constitution in order to prop up Obamacare’s collapsing insurance exchanges. Now, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, wants to let them off the hook. Brady recently encouraged Congress to continue making cost-sharing reduction payments to marketplace insurers. These subsidies reimburse coverage ...
Commentary
Repeal And Replace Can’t Wait Any Longer
The chief obstacle to repealing and replacing Obamacare may no longer be congressional Democrats. It could be the GOP itself. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised to hold a vote on the party’s repeal-and-replace plan by the end of June. But as he’s tacked his plan to the center ...
Commentary
GOP Replacement For Obamacare’s Individual Mandate: Worse Than Doing Nothing
Few provisions within Obamacare have proved less popular than the individual mandate, which requires all Americans to secure insurance or pay a fine. Unfortunately, some Senate Republicans are proposing a replacement that’s even worse. As part of their bid to repeal Obamacare, Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, ...
Health Care
Ted Cruz’s Hope For Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines Gets Second Look In ACA Overhaul
WASHINGTON — A long-held GOP goal of allowing Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines could be closer to reality, if Republicans including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have their way. Cruz, who with Sen. John Cornyn is part of a group crafting legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, ...
California
Sally Pipes on Single Payer Vote
SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Research Institute President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes today issued the following statement in response to the State Senate’s passage of single-payer health care legislation (Senate Bill 562): “Lawmakers today voted to move forward a $400 billion-a-year single-payer ...
The Senate Health Care Bill Is Just Obamacare Lite
After weeks of closed-door negotiations, the Senate Republican leadership on Thursday released its bid to repeal and replace Obamacare. It’s the product of a 13-member Senate working group. The bill is a disappointment. It’s little more than repeal in name only. And its ideas for replacement are almost indistinguishable from ...
Senate Republicans Release Their Obamacare Replacement Plan
Senate Republicans on Thursday announced a wide-ranging plan to roll back the Affordable Care Act, with features that include a dramatic reduction in government spending that could mean millions more Americans will be left uninsured. The plan, unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his team after working on ...
Senate Republicans Embrace Obamacare In Their Healthcare Bill
Today, the Senate Republican leadership released its draft of a bill that would supposedly repeal and replace Obamacare. It does neither. With this bill, Senate Republicans are betraying the promises they made on the campaign trail for the better part of seven years. If it passes, the GOP will have ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Majority Party’s War on Trump Is Really War on California’s Middle Class
Download the Brief KUSI television reported on June 12 that “Gov. Brown and the Democrats in Sacramento are in open revolt against President Trump.” While not a new development, it seems to indicate that California is seceding from the Union as it had threatened without providing official notice. Yes, it’s ...
Californians Fear Losing Coverage In Obamacare Reform
As the Republican-led U.S. Senate prepares to vote — possibly by next week — to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a new poll shows that 56 percent of Californians worry that they or someone in their family will lose health insurance coverage if the law, commonly called Obamacare, ...
Health Insurer Bailouts Have Gone On Long Enough
For years, Democrats have ignored the Constitution in order to prop up Obamacare’s collapsing insurance exchanges. Now, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, wants to let them off the hook. Brady recently encouraged Congress to continue making cost-sharing reduction payments to marketplace insurers. These subsidies reimburse coverage ...
Repeal And Replace Can’t Wait Any Longer
The chief obstacle to repealing and replacing Obamacare may no longer be congressional Democrats. It could be the GOP itself. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised to hold a vote on the party’s repeal-and-replace plan by the end of June. But as he’s tacked his plan to the center ...
GOP Replacement For Obamacare’s Individual Mandate: Worse Than Doing Nothing
Few provisions within Obamacare have proved less popular than the individual mandate, which requires all Americans to secure insurance or pay a fine. Unfortunately, some Senate Republicans are proposing a replacement that’s even worse. As part of their bid to repeal Obamacare, Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, ...
Ted Cruz’s Hope For Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines Gets Second Look In ACA Overhaul
WASHINGTON — A long-held GOP goal of allowing Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines could be closer to reality, if Republicans including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have their way. Cruz, who with Sen. John Cornyn is part of a group crafting legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, ...
Sally Pipes on Single Payer Vote
SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Research Institute President, CEO, and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy Sally C. Pipes today issued the following statement in response to the State Senate’s passage of single-payer health care legislation (Senate Bill 562): “Lawmakers today voted to move forward a $400 billion-a-year single-payer ...
