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Republican Health Care Plan Would Slash Coverage For 30 Million Low-Income Children
Under the GOP health care plan, millions of low-income children would be at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage.
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Montana GOP Special Election Candidate “Body Slammed” A Reporter Who Asked About Trumpcare
The GOP candidate decided that assaulting a reporter was a smarter strategy than defending his support of the Republican health care plan.
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Bernie Sanders Just Threw A Wrench In The Works That May Kill Trumpcare
Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out that if the American Health Care Act does not meet the requirement for the Senate HELP committee to save $1 billion, reconciliation can’t be used to pass the bill, and it will require 60 votes to get through the Senate.
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Republicans Look Like Idiots For Celebrating As They May Have To Vote On Trumpcare Again
If the CBO report finds that Trumpcare doesn’t save $2 billion, Trump and Republicans will look like idiots for celebrating, because the House will have to vote on the health care bill again.
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Republicans Are Begging Democrats For A Deal As Trumpcare Is Failing In The Senate
Senate Republicans are warning that the odds are high that Trumpcare is going to fail in the Senate, which is going to leave Republicans begging to do a deal with Democrats on health care.
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Trump White House Says Diabetics Don’t Deserve Health Care
Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that people with Type 2 diabetes don’t deserve to have health insurance because they gave themselves diabetes.
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HHS Secretary Price Displays Ignorance of First Amendment Following Reporter’s Arrest
What does a lawmaker do when a journalist asks a question they don’t like? In American, it used to be the question would be ignored or reframed, and the journalist would persist in getting an answer to the original question. It’s a dance that can, at times be frustrating for both partners, but a dance that is crucial to the America we know and most of us love. Never would asking a question result in a journalist’s arrest – no matter how many times the journalist would ask it and no matter how many times the lawmaker would dodge it.
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Trumpcare Awoke a Rage and More Determination In Our Effort To Remember and Resist
The wrath of voters was visible at the same sort of townhall meetings Republicans used to gin up anger over the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
Democrats Have Figured Out The Perfect Ad To Expose Trump As A Total Fraud
The ad could work because it clearly lays out the Big Lie revealed in Trumpcare; Donald Trump isn’t a populist who’s going to take care of people. He’s just another greedy, selfish Republican who lied to the people in order to get what he wanted — tax cuts for the rich.
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Opinion: Republicans, Rape, and Pre-existing Conditions
All but two states already have laws on the books that ban insurer providers from discriminating against rape and sexual abuse survivors.
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Idaho Republican Claims ‘Nobody Dies Because They Don’t Have Access to Health Care’
When told he was mandating the death of people on Medicaid Labrador claimed “That line is so indefensible.’ What is indefensible is Trumpcare.
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One Pennsylvania Voter’s Comments On Health Care Show Why Trump And The GOP Are Screwed
CBS’s Face The Nation held a focus group of Pennsylvania voters and the message that Trumpcare is going to take away health care for people with pre-existing conditions has already penetrated the public discussions. Republicans and Trump are screwed because many voters have already linked them with taking away health care.
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A Prominent Surgeon Calls Trumpcare Not Sane While Trashing The Republican Health Care Bill
Dr. Atul Gawande a surgeon, Harvard professor, and author of more than 40 New York Times bestsellers explained why the American Health Care Act (Trumpcare) was a bad replacement for Obamacare. Dr. Gawande described Trumpcare as an Obamacare replacement that is not sane or credible.
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Paul Ryan Falls Apart And Refuses To Guarantee That People Will Be Better Off With Trumpcare
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was asked a simple question on ABC’s This Week. Ryan was asked if he would guarantee that people would be better off under the Republican health care bill. His response was to never answer the question.
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House Republicans Forsake Morality To Give Trump A “Win”
Eager to give their leader Donald Trump a “win” on passing any significant legislation these Republican Representatives voted not only for an economically disastrous bill, but one that is so morally repugnant as to be evil.
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Democrats Are Winning The War To Take Back Congress After House Trumpcare Vote
The aftermath of the House vote to pass the American Health Care Act provided proof that every move that Republicans are making is only adding to the Democratic momentum on the march to 2018.
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After Health Care Vote, 20 Republican House Seats Have Shifted Towards Democrats
According to The Cook Political Report, 20 Republican House seats have shifted towards Democrats in 2018 thanks to their votes for unpopular American Health Care Act (Trumpcare).
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It’s No Surprise That Sexual Assaulter In Chief Trump’s Healthcare Bill Punishes Women
Trumpcare takes us back to the days before Obamacare, when rape and abuse victims were afraid to report the crime because they didn’t want to lose their health insurance.
Who does that help? It helps the criminal.
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Trump Says AHCA Phase 2 Will Be ‘Great’ But it Won’t Unless it Eliminates Phase 1
“Big win in the House – very exciting! But when everything comes together with the inclusion of Phase 2, we will have truly great healthcare!”
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Alyssa Milano Lays Waste to the Old White Men Making Decisions About Her Vagina
“These are the lawmakers making the decisions for my vagina. Looks like none of them have made contact with one in a while.”
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Rachel Maddow Exposes A Pro-Trumpcare Congressman For Lying Right To His Constituent’s Face
Maddow interviewed a woman with a brain tumor who was promised by her GOP congressman that he would oppose Trumpcare. Today, he voted for it.
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The Resistance Fights Back By Raising Half A Million Dollars In 24 Hours To Unseat Republicans
Americans are quickly mobilizing to defeat vulnerable GOP candidates who voted in favor the disastrous legislation.
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With One Act Of Pure Evil, Trump Broke All Of His Campaign Promises On Health Care
Candidate Donald Trump promised people that no one would lose their coverage, premiums would go down, he would take care of preexisting conditions, there wouldn’t be any Medicaid changes, he would cover more people, and leave no one worse off by getting rid of the lifesaving impacts of Obamacare.
All of this was a lie.
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Catholics Call On Senators To Stop The Immoral Republican Health Care Bill
The group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is calling on US Senators to stand up and stop the House Republican health care bill, which they described as unwanted and immoral.
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Bernie Sanders Is Building An Army To Stop Trumpcare Dead In Its Tracks In The Senate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wasted no time in immediately mobilizing the opposition that will be needed to kill Trumpcare in the US Senate.
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Republican Senators Admit That Trumpcare Will Die In The Senate
Republican Senators are making it well known that they don’t see a way for the House’s American Health Care Act to pass the Senate. As soon as the bill hits the Senate, it will be dead.
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Trumpcare Is Going To Hurt You Even If You Get Your Health Insurance At Work
If you thought you were safe from the perils of Trumpcare because you don’t have a preexisting condition and get your insurance from your employer, take a deep breath. Trumpcare offers a “backdoor way to gut” employer plans.
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Paul Ryan Calls Trumpcare’s Upton Amendment “Momentum,” But Really, it’s Murder
“There’s one sentence every American needs to know: Trumpcare eliminates pre-existing condition protections.”
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“This Will Mean Death”: Cory Booker Delivers Emotional Takedown Of GOP Health Care Plan
“This will cost American lives if it ever becomes law. This will mean death, pain, and suffering to people’s families.”
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It’s Official: GOP Will Vote Thursday To Dismantle Health Care For Millions Of Americans
GOP Congressman Kevin McCarthy says Republicans do, in fact, have enough votes to advance the legislation.
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Republicans Declare War On Cancer Patients By Creating A Real Death Panel
The Upton Amendment in the revised Republican health care bill isn’t protection for people with preexisting conditions is a declaration of war on cancer patients that will force them into underfunded high-risk pools.
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He Doesn’t Know What’s in It, But Trump Desperate to Get Trumpcare 2.0 Passed
“Trump only wants ‘win.’ He does not know or care what’s in bill or what impact it will have on millions.”
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Nancy Pelosi Reveals There Are ’70 Poison Pills’ in Current Government Funding Bill
The current Republican position is that we destroy our water and air and then make up for it by denying Americans insurance to pay for the resultant medical issues.
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Trump Cut A Disastrous Deal On Health Care That Will Hand Congress Back To Democrats
The deal that Donald Trump cut with the House Freedom Caucus on health care is opposed by 71% of Americans. If Republicans force this bill through Congress, it will be setting Democrats up for a big win in 2018.
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Numbers of Those with No Confidence in Trumpcare Up Double-Digits Since February
“If our healthcare plan is approved, you will see real healthcare,” said Trump, but polling numbers mean Trumpcare will never be approved
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Republicans To Vote Next Week To Take Away Health Care For Those With Preexisting Conditions
Trump and Republicans are circulating new legislative language and hoping for a vote on Wednesday on a new health care that would strip protections away from people with preexisting conditions.
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Fact Checker Demolishes “Bonkers” Trump Interview On Fox Business
As Toronto Star fact checker Daniel Dale put it, “Trump’s Fox Business interview is highly dishonest and frequently bonkers.”
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Joe Wilson, Who Said ‘You Lie!’ to President Obama, Gets Told ‘You Lie!’ by Unhappy Constituents
Joe Wilson was met with a chorus of boos and cries of ‘You lie!’ when he showed up at his town hall and spoke evasively about protecting women
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The Ink On Trumpcare 2.0 Isn’t Even Dry And It’s Already Dead In The Water
Not only is the latest version of Trumpcare already doomed to fail, but it’s guaranteed to drag Republicans down with it.
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Trump Busted As 21 Senators Demand That He Release His Secret Plan To Destroy Health Care
Twenty-one Senators, led by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) wrote a letter to Trump HHS Secretary Tom Price demanding that he publicly release the secret plan presented to the House Freedom Caucus to undermine the US healthcare system.
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Trump Trying To Revive Politically Suicidal Health Care Plan As Approval Rating Craters
If there was a time for the president to revive Trumpcare, now would not be it.
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Fill The Swamp: Trump White House Has Combined Net Worth Of $12 Billion
Now we know why many of Trump’s proposals, from his disastrous health care legislation to his proposed budget cuts, would hurt the “little guy” and benefit the wealthy.
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GOP Strategist: Trumpcare Was a “Flatulent Mass of Trump’s Own Fantasy’
“Trump was trying to sell what Trump always sells, which is sort of a flatulent mass of his own fantasy about what the product is.”
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GOP Humiliation: Trumpcare Didn’t Even Have Majority Support Among Trump Voters
Even though Republicans are scrambling to move on from their health care collapse, the epic GOP humiliation lives on.
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GOP Congressman Says Trumpcare Failed Because It Wasn’t As Good As Trump Steaks
“President Donald Trump did the best he could, but it’s not the same as when Donald Trump in the private sector was trying to market and sell first-class products.”
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Legislator Quits Freedom Caucus Saying Some Would Vote ‘No’ on 10 Commandments
“I got the opinion that there are some members of the Freedom Caucus would vote No against the 10 Commandments if it ever came up for a vote.”
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Now That GOP Failed to Cut Taxes for Rich, They’re Going to Cut Taxes for Rich
“Republicans set to pivot from cutting taxes for the rich (AHCA) to cutting taxes for the rich (tax reform).” and tax cuts is like handing out candy
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There is No Disguising the Fact that GOP Health Care Means Just Letting People Die
“Can’t be said enough: Republicans objecting to #TrumpRyancare are doing so because it’s not yet cruel enough for the @freedomcaucus.”
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Trump Lies About His Dishonesty And Oh, Boy Does He Get Busted
“I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m President, and you’re not.”
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Sean Spicer Admits That Trump Is Taking Away Health Care To Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich
During his daily briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Sean Spicer admitted that Trump’s wants to cut health care first so that he can maximize tax cuts for the wealthy in 2018.
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Trump White House Tells Pregnant Women Who Need Health Care To Move or Change Their State Laws
Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s budget director, suggested that pregnant women concerned about losing maternity care under Trumpcare should just change the law in their state.
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Donald Trump Seems to Think He’s on ‘The Apprentice – White House Edition’
“Amazing what we’re hearing from reporters…Trump treating the GOP members of congress like they’re his employees.”
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Angry Paul Ryan Runs From Reporters After Health Care Talks Fail Miserably
The Speaker was in no mood to deal with the press after a day of spectacular failures for his party.
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GOP Leaders Are Now Trying To End Coverage For Pre-Existing Conditions, Young Adults
If there is one thing just about every American agrees on, it’s that these two parts of the Affordable Care Act should remain untouched.
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Dealmaker-In-Chief Trump Throws Tantrum, Demands Friday Vote After Failed Health Care Talks
Trump can’t even bring Republicans together to do something they have promised to do for the past seven years.
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New Analysis Finds Trumpcare Would Be Even More Catastrophic Than Originally Thought
Trumpcare will cost more than initial estimates – and none of the cost increases will go toward covering the 24 million Americans that will lose health insurance under the plan.
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Panic Sweeps The GOP As House Republican Warns Democrats Will Win Congress If Trumpcare Fails
Republicans are in a full blown panic, and warning that Democrats will win back Congress in 2018 if their health care bill fails to pass.
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Trump Attacks Obamacare In Kentucky, Where It’s Insured More Than Half A Million People
If Trump wants to keep calling the Affordable Care Act a “disaster,” he probably shouldn’t do it in a state that has benefited so much from the law.
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Disaster For Trump As His Own HHS Secretary Admits That Obamacare Helps People
When pressed during an interview on ABC’s This Week, Trump HHS Secretary Tom Price admitted that Obamacare (ACA) helps people, which is the opposite of the Republican argument that Obamacare is a collapsing disaster.
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Trumpcare Looks Dead As 3rd GOP Senator Says He Will Vote Against The Bill
Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) has announced that he will vote against the Republican health care bill. Heller is the third Republican to oppose the bill. If all Democrats vote against the legislation along with the Republicans, Trumpcare will be dead.
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The Age Tax Is Trumpcare’s Dirty Little Secret That Republicans Don’t Want You To Know
There is a secret tax in the Republican health care bill that GOP supporters are trying to keep hidden. Older Americans are going to pay an increasing in premiums that amounts to a 20%-25% tax on their health insurance.
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Chuck Todd Just Destroyed The GOP Health Care Bill By Catching Paul Ryan In Two Massive Lies
On MSNBC’s MTP Daily host Chuck Todd caught Speaker of the House Paul Ryan misleading about the CBO’s Obamacare numbers and the ACA being in a death spiral which are two of the reasons why Republicans claim that the Affordable Care Act must be replaced.
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Fox News’s Own Poll Shows That Trump Is Failing As President
As Trump doubles down on defending a disastrous heath care bill, all while peddling paranoid conspiracy theories and covering up his connections to Russia, these numbers aren’t likely to improve anytime soon.
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TrumpCare Is Devastating Republicans as Trump’s Approval Rating Tanks to 39%
President Trump’s approval rating on the Gallup Daily Tracking poll tanked to 39% from 45% on the 11th. This coincides with the disastrous rollout of TrumpCare.
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GOP Setting Itself Up For Midterm Bloodbath As Trumpcare Hurts The Most Reliable Voters
Trumpcare is political suicide for the president and his Republican colleagues in Congress.
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The Truth Comes Out As Sean Spicer Admits Trump’s Goal Is To Take Insurance Away From Poor People
Press Secretary Sean Spicer stumbled over his words during the White House press and admitted the truth, Trump’s goal on health care isn’t to provide health insurance to everyone, but to allow people to buy the insurance, which means that no money equals no insurance.
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Tom Cotton Says Paul Ryan’s Claim of a 3-Phase Repeal and Replace is ‘Just Spin’
“There is no three-phase process. There is no three-step plan. That is just political talk. It’s just politicians engaging in spin”
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Top House Democrat Follows The Money And Busts The Republican Health Care Bill Lies
Rep. Elijah Cummings followed the money and explained why Republicans are being dishonest and not telling the truth about their health care bill during an interview on CNN.
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Fox News Panics After CBO Report And Begs GOP To Immediately Abandon Trumpcare
With even the most extreme conservatives opposing this plan, Republicans are miles away from repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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After CBO Report, Trump White House Begs Democrats For Help In Taking Away Health Care
HHS Secretary Tom Price responded to the CBO report on Trumpcare by the disputing the numbers and then asking Democrats to help the struggling White House kill health care for 24 million people.
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Fox News Turns On Trump And Trashes Trumpcare As President Hits A New Low
White House Chief Economic Adviser Gary Cohn had a rough interview on Fox News Sunday as host Chris Wallace kept pressing him on whether or not President Trump would support a health care plan that would take coverage away from millions of people. Republicans are tearing each apart over replacing Obamacare.
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Trumpcare Is Toxic And Everyone Knows It: Even The White House And Republicans in Congress
One does not need to be a Nobel Prize winning economist like Paul Krugman to see the achievements of Obamacare and the deathly dangers of Trumpcare.
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GOP Legislation Would Coerce Employees Into Providing Employers Genetic Information
“This feels like the kind of story that could blow up in a big way: Is GOP the party of liberty or of big business?”
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Trumpcare a Disaster Because Paul Ryan ‘Just a Self-Promoter’ Who is In Above His Head
Paul Krugman warns that we should not “presume that Ryan and company have any idea what they’re doing.”
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Joy Reid Takes A Reality Hammer And Destroys The Conservative Argument Against Obamacare
During MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Joy Reid got into a philosophical argument with conservative columnist John Podhertaz and destroyed the conservative argument that health care should be a choice with a blast of reality.
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MSNBC Sticks It To Trump By Calling Hated Obamacare Replacement Trumpcare
The White House doesn’t want the American people to call the Republican Obamacare replacement that is going to take health care away from millions Trumpcare, but MSNBC has fully adopted the name that the White House hates the most.
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Chuck Todd Exposed TrumpCare’s Biggest Lie With One Question To A Republican Senator
On MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Chuck Todd asked Republican Sen. Tom Barrasso (R-WY) about whether people would have less money for health care under the Republican Obamacare replacement and Barrasso’s answer highlighted one of the big lies that TrumpCare is built on.
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Republicans Shove TrumpCare Down America’s Throat By Refusing To Allow States To Opt Out
Republicans have railed for years against “Obamacare mandates,” but today they refused to allow states to opt out of TrumpCare.
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House Republican Busts Trump For Trying To Take Obama’s Name Off Obamacare And Call It His Own
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) accused Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and President Donald Trump of trying to take President Obama’s name off of Obamacare and call it their own.
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TrumpCare Gives A Tax Cut To The Wealthy While Gutting Vaccinations For Children
Buried in the Republican Obamacare replacement bill is a gutting federal funding for childhood vaccinations that would be an unprecedented and dangerous attack on America’s kids to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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Trump and Ryan Face Humiliating Defeat As GOP Obamacare Replacement Opposition Avalanches
The White House is trying to defend Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement bill, but they may be too late as the GOP opposition to the House bill has grown into an avalanche.
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What Trump Calls a ‘Spirit of Optimism’ Sweeping Country is Actually a Wave of BS
Ben Carson says slaves were immigrant, only packed like sardines and chained in the cargo holds. Next, he’ll tell us this was ‘economy class’