Mar 29 Poll: Americans dislike GOP's, Trump's plan on health care By Alan Fram, Emily Swanson, Associated Press Sixty-two percent of Americans turned thumbs down on Trump's handling of health care during the initial weeks of his presidency, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Of the six health coverage changes the… Continue reading
Mar 23 Watch How GOP health bill could dramatically change lives of small business employees, Medicaid recipients By Jason Kane, Matt Ehrichs How will the Republican health care plan affect insurance coverage and costs if the Affordable Care Act replacement becomes law? We share stories of Americans likely to be affected, including a small business owner and her employees, and an unemployed… Continue watching
Mar 23 Column: Trump's budget and GOP health care bill will hurt older Americans By Philip Moeller Older Americans are under attack, along with poor, sick and disabled citizens. There is no way that enacting the American Health Care Act or the Trump budget in their current forms would not make life much, much harder for these… Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch 6:30 Vote looming, House health care bill hasn't yet won pivotal GOP support By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 21 Trump warns House Republicans of political costs if they reject GOP health bill By Alan Fram and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press President Donald Trump warned House Republicans they could lose their seats in next year's midterm elections if they failed to back the GOP health care overhaul and fulfill a long-promised goal to undo Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. Continue reading
Mar 18 Republicans at odds over how to overhaul Medicaid By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press A group of Republican governors have made their own proposal about how to overhaul Medicaid for low-income people. Continue reading
Mar 17 Trump OKs changes in GOP health care bill, winning support By Alan Fram and Erica Werner, Associated Press President Donald Trump agreed to add fresh Medicaid curbs to the House Republican health care bill Friday, bolstering the measure with support from some conservative lawmakers but leaving its prospects wobbly. House leaders discussed other amendments calibrated to round up… Continue reading
Mar 15 GOP health overhaul puts pressure on state governments By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press The Republican health care plan means less money for states and gives them a tough choice: Find a pot of cash to make up the difference or let coverage lapse for millions of lower-income Americans. Continue reading
Mar 13 Trump pick Seema Verma sworn in to head Medicare and Medicaid By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press President Donald Trump's pick to run Medicare and Medicaid won confirmation Monday from a divided Senate as lawmakers braced for another epic battle over the government's role in health care and society's responsibility toward the vulnerable. Continue reading
Mar 11 Pence appeals for complete GOP support for health overhaul By Ken Thomas, Associated Press Vice President Mike Pence is taking the Trump administration's case for a health care overhaul to Kentucky, where one of the state's GOP senators has been a leading critic of the White House-backed overhaul. Continue reading