The Senate health-care bill has sharpened the central political question surrounding the 2017 Republican agenda: Will the voters who made Donald Trump president rebel? Like the House health-care bill, the Senate version would roll back Obamacare’s expansion of insurance coverage under Medicaid. While cutting Obamacare’s taxes on the rich, it […] Read more »
Will The Senate Pass Its Health Care Bill?
… Betting markets give roughly even odds that key provisions of Obamacare, such as its employer mandate, will be repealed before the end of the year. I don’t know what probability I’d assign to the bill’s passage myself. But I do think it’s worth pausing to take an inventory of […] Read more »
Public support for ‘single payer’ health coverage grows, driven by Democrats
A majority of Americans say it is the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. And a growing share now supports a “single payer” approach to health insurance, according to a new national survey by Pew Research Center. CONT. Jocelyn Kiley, Pew Read more »
No Easy Wins for GOP Lawmakers Under Trump
For congressional Republicans in the new norm of the Trump presidency, nothing is easy, and everything is hard. … Part of the difficulty has nothing to do with President Trump. The Republican majorities in the House (55 percent to 45 percent) and Senate are relatively thin, and the House and […] Read more »
Cost of Healthcare Is Americans’ Top Financial Concern
As the U.S. Senate begins considering legislation that could significantly change the nation’s healthcare system, the cost of healthcare leads the list of what Americans consider the most important financial problem facing their family. CONT. Andrew Dugan, Gallup Read more »
Three pieces of advice for taking on the GOP health care bill
New Democracy Corps surveys on behalf of Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund show a country deeply opposed to the health care plan passed by the House and now mirrored in the version under discussion in the US Senate. Opposition to the GOP health care bill outpaces support two-to-one with […] Read more »