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‘Skinny Repeal’ and the Senate Health Debate
Yesterday, two major proposals that would have rolled back the Affordable Care Act’s progress in expanding coverage were defeated by bipartisan majorities. Senate leadership is now pulling togethe...
View MoreObamacare Repeal Defeated: Savor the Moment
We always believed in our hearts that it would not be possible for Congress to pass repeal—that we could stop these harmful efforts because too many people rely on the Affordable Care Act and Medic...
View MoreWhat’s Next for Health Care in Congress: Medicaid, CHIP, and Bipartisan Reform
Congress has left D.C. for the summer without passing legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or cut Medicaid. Leadership and rank-and-file representatives and senators on both sides of th...
View MoreCongressional Budget Office Shows the Impact of Trump’s CSR Sabotage
For months, President Trump has been threatening to cancel so-called called “cost-sharing reduction” payments, or CSRs. This is apparently part of his brazen strategy to “implode” health in...
View MoreCongress’s Emerging Health Policy Conversation Offers Both Opportunities and Risks
After the most recent collapse of Senate efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many in Congress, on both sides of the aisle, see an opening for bipartisan health reform. Rather than take in...
View MoreWelcome Back Congress with a Request to Protect Our Care
When Congress returns to D.C. from August recess, they will dive right into work that presents both opportunities and threats for health care. As a result, September will be a good time for health car...
View MoreHealth Care-Packed Week for Congress
Congress is back from summer vacation and has little time to waste on a packed September agenda. Legislative items on its plate this month include: passing a government funding bill and disaster reli...
View MoreHope for Our Nation’s Families as Congress Turns the Page
Today, an important new phase begins in the seemingly endless debates over U.S. health care. For the first time in many years, a committee of the U.S. Congress – the Senate Committee on Health, Educ...
View MoreCongress Must Pass CHIP Funding Soon
Time is running out for Congress to pass legislation that should be easy: extending funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). If Congress doesn’t act to extend CHIP funding, heal...
View MoreThree Things Congress Must Do Now to Protect Marketplaces and Consumers
Following the failed effort in the Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in early September, members on both sides of the aisle came together to find bipartisan solutions to the most pressi...
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