With Epic GOP Failure, Dems Urged To Go Bold With Medicare-For-All

Americans rallied against the GOP to defend their right to healthcare, Democrats are being urged to seize on the moment.

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
In this March 8, 2017, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans intent on scrapping Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act have a budget problem. As it turns out, repealing and replacing the law they hate so much won’t save nearly as much money as getting rid of it entirely, the goal they’ve been campaigning on for seven years. That means trouble for the federal deficit and for Congress’ fiscal conservatives who repeatedly warn about leaving their children and grandchildren worse off financially. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

With the Republican attempt to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) going down in flames Friday as Americans rallied to defend their right to healthcare, Democrats are being urged, both by experts and constituents, to seize on the moment and counter with a plan that will truly provide coverage for all. Uproar over the GOP's American Health Care

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Trump Demands Vote For Widely Unpopular American Health Care Act

Trump issued a stark ultimatum to wavering House Republicans, that if they don’t get behind the AHCA, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, will remain the “law of the land.”

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
President Donald Trump pauses in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Friday, March 24, 2017, during an announcement on the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline. (AP/Evan Vucci)

In their frenzied effort to strong-arm support for the flailing American Health Care Act (AHCA) before a vote on Friday, President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have officially made the Republican plan even worse. Trump issued a stark ultimatum to wavering House Republicans late Thursday, dispatching budget director Mick Mulvaney to

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GOP’s New Health Care Plan Will Harm America’s Most Vulnerable

The GOP recently released the details of its proposed replacement for the Affordable Care Act — and its plans for the country’s health care system are nothing less than terrifying. Many of the nation’s poorest citizens would see their health care offerings shrink in another typical attempt by the Republican Party to prey on the less fortunate.

Roqayah Chamseddine
By Roqayah Chamseddine
In this March 8, 2017, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans intent on scrapping Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act have a budget problem. As it turns out, repealing and replacing the law they hate so much won’t save nearly as much money as getting rid of it entirely, the goal they’ve been campaigning on for seven years. That means trouble for the federal deficit and for Congress’ fiscal conservatives who repeatedly warn about leaving their children and grandchildren worse off financially. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

The GOP’s American Health Care Act, a bill that has been advertised as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, has finally been published -- and by the looks of it, their so-called health care overhaul will leave countless Americans, especially those with low incomes, at great risk. If put in place, the Republican healthcare plan “would result

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Congressional Budget Office: 24 Million People Would Lose Coverage Under TrumpCare

The highly-anticipated report on GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan finds 14 million people would lose coverage in the first two years alone.

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price speaks outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017, after Congress' nonpartisan budget analysts reported that millions people would lose coverage next year under the House bill dismantling former President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Monday released its score of the GOP's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, projecting that 14 million people would lose coverage by 2018 if the Republican bill is implemented. And that number would rise to 24 million by 2026. Additionally, the plan would lead to higher

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Americans Are Packing Town Halls, Demanding To Be Heard By Lawmakers

‘I look out into an audience like this, I just kind of think to myself, the founding fathers would say this is what we worked so hard for,’ says Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon.

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton
A person shouts to Rep. Jason Chaffetz during his town hall meeting at Brighton High School, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

(REPORT) --- Recess resistance rolled on this weekend, with people packing town hall meetings across the country and constituents increasing the pressure on lawmakers who won't commit to facing voters head-on. Roughly 800 people attended Rep. Karen Bass' (D-Calif.) town hall meeting in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday, raising

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Republicans Conceal Cost Of Repealing Affordable Care Act

Many are hoping that the same organized outrage that lead to the Republicans’ backtrack on the ethics rule change can also pressure lawmakers to rethink other unpopular—and outlandish—policies

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Cliff Owen)

(ANALYSIS) --- Republican leaders racing to tear down as many as 20 million (pdf) individuals' healthcare without providing a replacement, it turns out, also don't want the American people to know how much the repeal will cost. The very same rules package (pdf) in which the GOP had attempted to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics also

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