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House Speaker Paul Ryan has cautioned against making significant changes to GOP leadership’s Obamacare replacement plan for fear the bill would run afoul of Senate rules. But some Republican senators and health policy experts say the bill in its current form already wouldn’t pass muster with the Senate’s parliamentarian, who decides whether provisions of legislation…

The Obamacare replacement plan offered by House Republican leadership eventually would lower health insurance premiums and reduce federal budget deficits, although 24 million Americans no longer would have coverage, the Congressional Budget Office says. In a report estimating the cost of the plan, released late Monday, the CBO projects the American Health Care Act would reduce budget…

For Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the success of House Republican leaders’ Obamacare repeal and replacement plan, as well as the success of President Donald Trump, hinges on one thing: the cost of insurance premiums. “We ultimately will be judged only by one factor: if insurance premiums come down,” Meadows told The Daily Signal. “If the…

The highly anticipated Obamacare replacement plan cleared the first of several hurdles in the House this week, where the House GOP’s proposal was the focus of intense scrutiny and opposition. But as the bill makes it way through the lower chamber, the American Health Care Act could already be facing a long and difficult road…

Keeping promises. That was the theme of a Tuesday anti-Obamacare rally hosted by Americans for Prosperity on a rooftop near Capitol Hill. The title of the event was “You Promised,” a call for Republicans in Congress to keep their word to repeal the Affordable Care Act fully. Close to 200 activists traveled to the District…

Conservatives in the House and Senate are forging their own path ahead on Obamacare’s repeal and replacement, with plans to introduce legislation unwinding the health care law that Congress passed in 2015. In a press conference Tuesday, just hours after two House committees released the GOP’s replacement for the health care law, Rep. Jim Jordan,…

After seven years of promises to repeal and replace Obamacare, House Republicans finally have a bill detailing how they plan to reform the health care system once the Affordable Care Act is dismantled. The House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees revealed their replacement plan, the American Health Care Act, on Monday evening….

A key conservative lawmaker is urging Republicans to make good on their promises to repeal Obamacare before they get distracted by other legislative issues. “We think it is time to repeal it, clean repeal, and replace with market-centered health care [and] patient-centered health care,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said of conservatives and Obamacare in a…

For at least one conservative lawmaker, the current process for repealing and replacing Obamacare is beginning to look very similar to that of 2009, when Republicans accused Democrats of writing the Affordable Care Act behind closed doors. Armed with a portable copy machine, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., went on a crusade through the U.S. Capitol…

Conservatives in the House and Senate are leveraging their numbers in an attempt to influence the direction of legislation repealing Obamacare and ramp up the pressure on Republican leadership to bring a 2015 repeal bill back before members for another vote. Their efforts began Monday night when Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of…

Six lawmakers have come out stating that they will not support any measure that does not repeal as much of Obamacare as previous legislation did, stating that the language of a 2015 bill passed by both chambers should be “the bare minimum.” “[Two years] ago, [the] GOP Congress voted to repeal #Obamacare,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah,…

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said he’s puzzled his predecessor, Steve Beshear, will be delivering the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. Democrats have touted Beshear for making Obamacare work in Kentucky. Bevin said that’s not the case. “He unilaterally chose to expand Medicaid in Kentucky, enrolled hundreds of thousands…

Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., told conservatives Saturday that Congress must act quickly to “deliver on promises” made on the campaign trail. “It is with urgency that our unified Republican government deliver on promises, promises to repeal and replace Obamacare with patient-centered health care choices, not additional entitlements,” Walker said. Tax reform, regulatory reform, and protecting…

Conservatives and business leaders in the health care market have a message to Congress on Obamacare: Deliver on your promise to repeal the health care law and begin the process of returning to a health sector that can be “America’s greatest.” During a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, on Thursday, Grace-Marie…

When Kim Quade left her job of 17 years as a school speech pathologist outside Kansas City, Kansas, to work independently, she knew she would have to purchase her own health insurance. But, Quade says, she never anticipated the rate increases to come. Quade, 61, says she researched options and found a decent plan for…