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Aug 8, 2017
Health Care by the States
On Monday, WalletHub, a personal finance website known for its research reports and free consumer tools, posted their findings about health care across the fifty states plus...
Aug 5, 2017
The Fallout of an Obamacare Implosion
In our most recent article, which detailed a bipartisan plan for progressing the future of health care, we briefly touched on the possibility of the Trump administration eliminating cost-sharing...
Aug 4, 2017
Pushing Politics Aside: A Bipartisan Health Care Plan
Last week, when Senator John McCain gave a monumental, almost Wagnerian “no” to the GOP’s skinny repeal and replace plan, the energy in Congress seemingly shifted as a simple truth...
Jul 26, 2017
The Senate voted to debate on the bill. What happens next?
When the Senate opened a bill for debate last night, it was not the Better Care Reconciliation Act but rather the health bill that the House passed back in May: the American Health Care Act....
Jul 25, 2017
Senate Republicans vote to open health care bill for debate
In the midst of an unexpected appearance from Senator John McCain (who returned following brain surgery) and a delay of initial proceedings by protesters, it was hard to imagine that the...
Jul 20, 2017
The CBO scores the revised Better Care Reconciliation Act
On Monday, when Senators Mike Lee and Jerry Moran withdrew their support of the Senate’s bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Better Care Reconciliation Act was...
Jul 18, 2017
The Senate’s bill to repeal and replace Obamacare abruptly collapses
Late Monday evening, Mitch McConnell’s greatest fears were realized when two more senators came out in opposition to the procedural motion to move the Senate’s health bill to debate...
Jul 14, 2017
The Senate releases its revised health care bill
Before the July recess, things weren’t looking too great for Senate Republicans and their bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. At least seven senators opposed the plan on varying...
Jul 12, 2017
Revised Senate bill expected on Thursday
On Monday, senators returned from their ten day recess to revisit and revise the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the controversial health bill which has been at the top of Congress’s docket...
Jul 12, 2017
Revised Senate bill expected on Thursday
On Monday, senators returned from their ten day recess to revisit and revise the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the controversial health bill which has been at the top of Congress’s docket...
Jul 1, 2017
The Senate bill and an ongoing opioid crisis
Since the nineties, the United States has seen and unquestionably suffered the effects of a severe and ongoing opioid crisis. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse,...
Jun 29, 2017
McConnell delays the Senate health bill vote
Even before the CBO score was released on Tuesday, the odds were not looking great for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Five senators had already voiced their opposition...
Jun 28, 2017
The CBO scores the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017
On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released their preliminary report on the Senate’s health care bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Better Care Reconciliation Act...
Jun 24, 2017
Dean Keller becomes the fifth senator to oppose the Senate’s health bill
On Friday, Dean Heller (NV) became the latest senator to announce his staunch objection to the Senate’s recently released health care bill. In a statement made at a news conference...
Jun 22, 2017
Senate Republicans release their healthcare plan
Folks, release that breath you’ve been holding in for the past few weeks because the wait is finally over. On Thursday morning, Senate Republicans released their 142-paged bill to repeal...
Jun 12, 2017
The positive impact of the ACA and the Medicaid expansion
In the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, House and Senate Republicans alike have strived to workshop bills that reflect solutions to some of the problems that the ACA...
Jun 7, 2017
Disability Advocates Startled by AHCA’s Medicaid Cuts
In May, when the CBO’s score of the American Health Care Act was released, one of the most polarizing numbers that the report portended was the $834 billion reduction of Medicaid...
Jun 6, 2017
On the Senate’s New Healthcare Proposal
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans and a healthcare working group met to workshop the blueprint of a new health care proposal in a rejuvenated effort to repeal and replace Obamacare...
Jun 2, 2017
The CBO Score and the American Health Care Act
At no point should the discussion of health care and relevant legislation be relegated to a small, elite group of people; it belongs to the public, a principle which...
May 24, 2017
What does the American Health Care Act mean for survivors of rape?
Rape. Consisting of a paltry one syllable and four letters, it is hardly the most impressive word in the English dictionary; however, in its meaning and its execution, in its statistically evident...