By Propping Up Obamacare With Illegal Payments, Trump Is Eroding the Rule of Law
The president is using unconstitutional insurer subsidies as negotiating leverage.
The president is using unconstitutional insurer subsidies as negotiating leverage.
Years of failure to establish a shared health policy vision led to last night's debacle.
There's little daylight between the average liberal activist and the average healthcare reporter.
They had to pass the motion to proceed to the bill to find out what's in the bill.
It took two libertarian-leaners, one moderate, and a Kansan irked at the process to deny Donald Trump his unpopular, critically panned legislation.
The program desperately needs radical surgery
New Senate legislation moves the Republican bill in the direction of Obamacare.
In interview, the Utah senator signals a make-or-break moment for the Obamacare revamp, while Mike Rounds tries to bridge the moderate-conservative gap.
Liberal attachment to the worst insurance program in the civilized world is mind-boggling.
Ohio could freeze expansion enrollments next year, ignoring the governor's pleas.
What part of "First, Do No MORE Harm" do congressional Republicans not understand?
After abruptly postponing a vote, dealmaking continues.
The GOP health plan tacitly accepts Obamacare's central premise: that governments should micromanage insurance markets.
The Republican health care plan wouldn't solve the problems Republicans say they want to solve.
The argument carries a powerful emotional charge but it isn't a particularly constructive or clear-minded way to think or talk about writing laws.
It's one more way the GOP repeal bill resembles Obamacare.
Libertarian-leaning congressman slams the Better Care Reconciliation Act on Kennedy
Tea Party senators claim to be "open to negotiation" yet insist on repealing Obamacare, which no version of the AHCA has come close to doing.
The draft legislation represents a total failure of Republican policy imagination.
Paul's "Read the Bills" resolution would change Senate rules to allow one day of transparency for every 20 pages of a bill's length.
"They've gotten kind of weak-kneed," the Kentucky senator says of his GOP colleagues. If he, Mike Lee, and one other senator defect, the bill is dead.
Why are Republicans rushing a bill no one likes? Here are five theories.
As the president throws the Freedom Caucus under the bus by reportedly calling the AHCA a "mean, mean, mean…son of a bitch," Rand Paul says he'll vote against any "new entitlements," and the swing vote shifts to…Ted Cruz?
The Senate GOP is relying on the same opaque process they accused Democrats of using to pass Obamacare.
The Senate GOP bill is likely to expand subsidies, preserve regulations, and delay the Medicaid rollback.
This is how the GOP treats their top legislative priorities.
This is why the GOP health care bill is stalled in the Senate.
A rule is under review that would (reportedly) relax the hotly debated requirement.
Despite claims by supporters, requiring calorie counts is neither easy nor sensible.
The AHCA is testing the limits of the Congressional Budget Office's authority.
Aetna exits the exchanges, citing massive losses and structural instability.
Obamacare was bad, and its replacements look like a dog's breakfast.
Justin Amash, Mark Sanford, and a half-dozen others describe AHCA as a "marginal" win that will hopefully be improved in the Senate.
Accommodating religious objections to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate does not violate anyone's rights.
Uh, better late than never?
Reason editors Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman talk Trump, French election, health care, Colbert, and the FCC.
It locks in many of the worst elements of Obamacare while making actual market-friendly reforms next-to-impossible.
A deeply unpopular bill, passed via untenable process, gets near-unanimous support from legislators who used to rail against such things.
House Republicans say their bill repeals the ACA. Instead, it leaves the essential structure of that law in place.
The House will vote today on a bill without knowing the cost or what it will do.
The GOP never really took the time to describe the basic mechanics of how their preferred health care system might work.
The president can't negotiate a better bill if he doesn't understand the current one.
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