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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Trump Administration To Keep Entitlements, Obamacare Plan Unknown

While Obamacare has largely proved to be a disaster, the Medicaid expansion was a pretty solid success given its objectives: create greater access to health services and improve health outcomes-and its modest cost overruns.

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright
Reince Priebus, Chair of the Republican National Committee, right, speaks as President-elect Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech during his election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in New York. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus says there are no plans to cut Social Security or Medicare. This was Trump’s position throughout the Republican primaries and general election. But Priebus was less blunt on whether the expansion of Medicaid brought by the Affordable Care

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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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Trump Taps Obamacare Critic To Lead Department Of Health

Tom Price is a surgeon who has been a member of Congress’ lower house for over 10 years. Donald Trump’s team has said his first mission will be to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Deutsche Welle
By Deutsche Welle
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., chairman of the House Budget Committee appears before the Rules Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans hope that as Trump's choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Price will preside over the dismantlement of President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Georgia Congressman Tom Price as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The orthopedic surgeon is a critic of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly referred to as "Obamacare." In a statement, Price said that he would strive "to ensure we have a healthcare

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20 Million People Would Lose Health Coverage Under Donald Trump Presidency

The result would be an estimated 45.1 million uninsured people in 2018 under Trump — an increase of 20.2 million, reversing the coverage gains under Obama.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Aston, Pa. A new study that examines some major health care proposals from the presidential candidates finds that Donald Trump would cause about 20 million to lose coverage while Hillary Clinton would provide coverage for an additional 9 million people.

WASHINGTON  — A new study that examines some major health care proposals from the presidential candidates finds that Donald Trump would cause about 20 million to lose coverage while Hillary Clinton would provide coverage for an additional 9 million people. The 2016 presidential campaign has brought voters to a crossroads on health care yet

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Conflicting Federal Court Rulings Clash Over Obamacare

Pair of decisions make it even more likely the US Supreme Court will ultimately decide fate of government subsidies.

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton

A federal circuit court in Washington, D.C., ruled Tuesday morning that the federal government may not subsidize health insurance plans for people in the 36 states that decided not to set up their own marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act. However, just hours after the D.C. court issued its ruling, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a

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