GOP plan would be ‘a major retreat’ in addressing addiction crisis

On ABC, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) questioned whether the president was anxious about any Bharara-led probes that would affect him in the White House.

“More competition and less regulation will finally bring down the cost of care”.

President Donald Trump asserted on Monday that President Barack Obama’s health care law was only popular because, like the former president, it was being replaced.

Finally in control of the House, the Senate and the White House after November’s elections, Republicans at last are in prime position to realize their stated goal – to gut what is formally known as the Affordable Care Act.

Some studies show the plan would leave up to 15 million Americans without health coverage.

The ACA is a set of proposed congress bills published released last week that are meant to replace Obamacare.

FILE PHOTO – Rep. Tom Price testifies on his nomination to be Health and Human Services secretary in Washington.

“I am going to take care of everybody”, Trump said then. “I’m afraid that if they vote for this bill, they’re going to put the House majority at risk next year”, he said. “In fact in the past, the CBO score has really been meaningless”, Gary Cohn, director of the White House National Economic Council, told “Fox News Sunday”.

The GOP plan promotes health savings accounts for the affluent and encourages catastrophic insurance deductibles. People who get their insurance on the jobs have been protected against discrimination for pre-existing conditions since 1996, when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

The Trump administration’s new travel ban takes effect Thursday.

Paul also claimed the Leadership-backed bill includes the individual mandate, which Republicans vocally opposed in ObamaCare. It has not been “scored” by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for its price tag and impact on those who have insurance.

The CBO estimated in 2013 that 22 million people would be purchasing insurance through the exchanges in 2016.

“The AARP says that if you’re 64 years of age, and you’re making about $25,000 a year, you are going to pay up to $7,000 more for your health insurance“.

The GOP plan will make it harder for individuals to game the system by remaining uninsured while they are healthy and buying insurance after they get sick.

“You know the changes to Medicaid are rough just from how creepily enthusiastic Paul Ryan sounds talking about them”, Oliver said before playing a clip of the Republican Speaker of the House promoting the bill on the radio.

Dickerson asks Ryan point blank how many people will lose coverage, and again, Ryan dodges and tries to make some grand point about how free we all are to die. Do you think they could afford to go to the doctor? “Right now I think there’s a charm offensive going on – everybody’s being nice to everybody because they want us to vote for this, but we’re not going to vote for it”, the Senator from Kentucky said on CBS’s “Face the Nation“.