Democrat Party News

Why is a GOP-controlled Congress about to spend billions of taxpayer dollars propping up Obamacare? The Heritage Foundation’s Marie Fishpaw joins us to discuss. Plus: We talk about Hillary Clinton’s Facebook message claiming we all misunderstood her comments last weekend.

This month could mark a turning point in national health policy. Big insurance companies have been pressuring Congress for a bailout—in the form of more taxpayer subsidies—to “stabilize” Obamacare. Congress must decide whether to maintain Obamacare on artificial life support, with yet another infusion of billions in taxpayer dollars, or tackle the tough task of…

The Republican Congress that was elected to repeal Obamacare is now considering bailing it out. It shouldn’t. Earlier this month, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the lobbying arm of the health insurance industry, sent a letter to the Republican leadership demanding billions of dollars in new subsidies for Obamacare insurance policies. The letter did not mention…

In a decision that has gotten almost no media attention, six states led by Texas have won another round against the Obama administration implementation of Obamacare. Judge Reed O’Connor, a federal judge in Texas, threw out the Obama administration’s imposition of a federal fee or tax on states as a condition of continuing to receive…

Congress appears poised to bail out Obamacare with new federal money in the omnibus package next week. Advocates of this bailout say it’s a good idea that will lower premiums and either “pay for itself” or “lower spending.” These claims are based on estimates that rely on questionable assumptions. Lawmakers should not be fooled into…

Republicans campaigned for roughly a decade, promising voters they would dismantle former President Barack Obama’s landmark health care legislation; but one of their own senators is trying to keep it alive through the 2018 election cycle. Leadership has nine days to whip representatives and senators behind an appropriations bill that will keep the government funded…

When Congress enacted President Donald Trump’s landmark tax reform plan in December, one media outlet proclaimed: “The GOP Tax Bill Kills Obamacare’s Individual Mandate.” Turns out, the headline was wrong. The individual mandate—the unconstitutional requirement that most Americans buy health insurance—remains in the law. The headline should have proclaimed that the tax bill repealed the…

Having failed last year to pass legislation undoing Obamacare’s damage, congressional Republicans now are reportedly looking to spend billions of additional tax dollars bailing out insurers offering Obamacare coverage, rather than dealing with the real problems that are driving up costs. The money would be added to a government funding bill that Congress plans to take…

Congress last year utilized the Congressional Review Act to get rid of many federal agency rules, most of which were prime examples of agency overreach. Congress now needs to use the “power of the purse” in the upcoming omnibus appropriations bill to continue its efforts to rein in agencies and reassert its lawmaking power. One…

It appears that Congress, backed by powerful special interests in the health care industry, is getting ready to bail out, once again, Obamacare’s failing health insurance program. Here’s the back story. Last year, President Donald Trump canceled the cost-sharing reduction subsidies for people buying coverage in the Obamacare exchanges. These taxpayer subsidies offset the out-of-pocket…

One of the most heartbreaking and perhaps infuriating aspects of the Florida school shooting that took 17 lives is just how many red flags there were surrounding the shooter. The national debate following the shooting has mostly revolved around guns. Much ink has also (rightly) been spilled about the failed leadership of the Broward County…

President Donald Trump’s historic tax reform legislation repealed, among other things, Obamacare’s individual mandate tax penalty. Effective in 2019, the IRS will no longer penalize Americans for not purchasing a federally approved health insurance plan. Unfortunately, Congress failed to repeal the even more economically disruptive employer mandate that forces businesses to pay tax penalties for…

When President Barack Obama’s EPA introduced the so-called “Clean Power Plan” by phone, pen, and teleprompter, he knew he had a strong sound bite and great talking points. But that’s where its momentum abruptly ended. Like most of the Obama administration’s political agenda, clever messaging aside, the Clean Power Plan faced a head-on collision with…