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Trumpcare

'Sadistic' Sabotage: Uproar After Trump Declares End of Healthcare Subsidies

Trump Denounced for 'Cynical' Sabotage of Nation's Health System

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Critics warn the president's executive order will "allow insurance companies to peddle low quality, junk plans" while driving up costs for the sick, putting the health of millions at risk

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Yet More 'Shameful' Evidence Trump Is Actively Sabotaging Obamacare

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Trump is personally intervening to block states from shoring up insurance...

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Graham-Cassidy Is Dead. Because the People Rose Up and Killed It.

Julia Conley, staff writer

Disability rights group ADAPT continued demonstrations even after news broke...

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"If we are serious about moving to a cost-effective universal healthcare, yeah, we do have to take on the insurance companies," Sanders said.

Sanders-Klobuchar Shred GOP Cruelty in Lopsided Debate Against Graham-Cassidy

#AdaptAndResist: More Than 200 Protesters Demand Senators Reject Graham-Cassidy

healthcare protests

200+ Organizations Denounce Profound Impact of Latest Trumpcare Bill

"Alaska would get 3 percent more funding between 2020 and 2026 than under current law, and Maine would get 43 percent more funding during that time period," the Washington Post observed of the latest draft of the Graham-Cassidy legislation.

Desperate GOP Resorts to 'Blatant Bribery' in Bid to Save Floundering Trumpcare Bill

Unlike Most of Senate GOP, McCain Is a 'No' on Bill That Analysis Shows Would Kill Tens of Thousands by 2027

MSNBC Panel Trolls Sanders With 'Scurrilous' Assault on Medicare for All

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and other Republican leaders

What Trump Calls "Great," All 50 State Directors of Medicaid Say Is Terrible

While President Spreads 'Blatant Lies,' Experts Side with Jimmy Kimmel on Trumpcare

New Poll Shows Nearly Half of Americans and 2/3 of Democrats Back Single Payer

DC rally

Refusing to 'Sit Down and Shut Up,' Trumpcare Opponents Mobilize Against GOP

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) walks to a meeting in the U.S. Capitol July 25, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

'Red Alert' Sounded: Trumpcare Is Back, More Brutal and Deadly Than Ever

U.S. President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Tom Price walk to a House Republican closed party conference on Capitol Hill, on March 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

'This Is Sabotage': Trump Cuts Obamacare Outreach Budget By 90%

Newswire

League of Women Voters

LWV Statement on Executive Order to End Health Care Subsidies

Credo Action

Trumpcare (Graham-Cassidy) FAIL Response: Even Republicans Knew It Was Too Cruel

Indivisible

Indivisible Statement on Republicans’ Failure to Repeal the Affordable Care Act

MoveOn.org

Trumpcare Again Defeated in Senate

Patriotic Millionaires

Business Initiative for Health Policy Condemns Graham-Cassidy

Physicians for a National Health Program

Health Researchers: Graham-Cassidy Bill Would Increase Deaths By 41,600 Annually

Views

Robert Reich

The Growing Irrelevance of President Trump

Robert Borosage

GOP Health Repeal Is an Immoral Affront to the American People

Adam Johnson

There Are 3 Types of Single-Payer 'Concern Trolls' — and They All Want to Undermine Universal Healthcare.

Kenneth Peres

The Republican War Against Government Supported Health Care

Josh Bivens, Hunter Blair

Graham-Cassidy: Maybe the Worst Republican Health Proposal Yet

Julie Chinitz

New Health Repeal Shows GOP’s Reckless Disregard for Our Lives

Dr. Carol Paris

It's Time for the Adults in This Nation To Talk Seriously About Medicare for All

David E. RePass

Republican Health Care Proposals Run Up Against Basic Economics and Can Never Succeed

Robert Greenstein

“Skinny Repeal Bill” — a Trojan Horse for Broader ACA Repeal and Deep Medicaid Cuts

Julie Chinitz

The GOP’s Trojan Horse on Health Care Repeal