Tag: Affordable Care Act

US judge blocks Donald Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants

The lawsuit also said the rule would greatly reduce or eliminate the number of immigrants who enter the United States with family-sponsored visas.

November 3, 2019

Trump endorses short-term bipartisan fix for ObamaCare

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed support for a bipartisan initiative to restore the ObamaCare subsidies he suspended last week. “We have been involved and this is a short-term deal because we think ultimately block grants going to the states is going to be the answer,” Trump told reporters at the White House, Efe...

October 18, 2017

Trump signs executive order to undermine Obamacare

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that clears the way for sweeping changes to the country’s health insurance system, including sales of cheaper policies with fewer benefits and protections for consumers than those mandated under the Affordable Care Act. The US President’s plan, an 1,100-word directive to federal agencies, laid the groundwork...

October 13, 2017

Trump rolls back Obamacare provision for free birth control

US President Donald Trump’s administration annulled today an Obamacare provision that obliged employer health plans to pay for contraception, potentially stripping free birth control from millions of women. The move extends to all commercial enterprises an exemption already given to religious institutions. Rights groups erupted in anger and the American Civil Liberties Union threatened a...

October 7, 2017

Trump to negotiate with Democrats on healthcare law

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he will negotiate with Democrats to move forward on a new healthcare law to replace ObamaCare. He announced that he was preparing an executive order to give people more freedom when buying medical insurance. Before flying to Indiana, where on Wednesday he will deliver a speech about...

September 28, 2017

Republican Senate leader drops vote to repeal Obamacare

US Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday cancelled this week’s expected vote on his party’s latest proposal to repeal and replace the healthcare law known as Obamacare, due to the lack of support in his own party. McConnell had to abandon the latest of his party’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act signed...

September 27, 2017

Obamacare repeal bill ‘dead’ as key Republican opposes Trump

A last-ditch attempt by US President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans to dismantle Obamacare collapsed as a third GOP senator has announced her opposition and left the proposal short of the votes needed to pass. Senator Susan Collins on Monday joined two of her colleagues John McCain and Rand Paul in rejecting the latest bill...

September 26, 2017

US Senate healthcare reform bill would leave 22 m without coverage

The healthcare reform bill being discussed by the US Senate would leave 22 million people without medical insurance by 2026, of whom 15 million would drop off the roles in the first year after its implementation, the Congressional Budget Office calculates in a report. The Senate bill shows only a slight difference from the version...

June 27, 2017

Uncertain Glory

The Trump administration has eventually jettisoned a landmark legacy of the Obama era with Thursday’s vote in the House of Representatives on the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, chiefly without the mandated insurance coverage. Markedly, there is little or no euphoria in the White House not least because the victory has been...

May 5, 2017

5 Senate Republicans seek to slow down Obamacare repeal

A group of Senate Republicans introduced an amendment to provide additional time to repeal Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Senators Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy and Rob Portman want to extend the deadline for a repeal bill until March 3. The existing resolution's deadline is January 27. Corker told Politico...

January 10, 2017

5 Senate Republicans seek to slow down Obamacare repeal

A group of Senate Republicans introduced an amendment to provide additional time to repeal Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Senators Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy and Rob Portman want to extend the deadline for a repeal bill until March 3. The existing resolution's deadline is January 27. Corker told Politico...

January 10, 2017

Obama seeking to save healthcare reform

President Barack Obama visited the Congress to ask Democratic legislators to remain firm against Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health reform. As Obama was meeting with Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday, Vice President-elect Mike Pence held a meeting with Republican legislators, also at the Capitol, to make clear to them that the first...

January 5, 2017