… off by making a clear statement: I am a doer , and I support the reform bill from House Republicans, the American Health Care Act. I have worked in and around healthcare policy for more than a decade. I helped the Republicans create the Medicaid …
Category: Representative Bill Cassidy
Republicans unveil Affordable Care Act replacement bill
Republicans unveiled their long-awaited legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, proposing to phase out key parts of the law over several years as they try to break through a stalemate between moderates and conservatives in their party. Called the American Health Care Act, House Republicans’ proposal includes a refundable, age-based tax credit to help people buy insurance.
News roundup: Cassidy reintroduces Medicaid Accountability and Care…
Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy has reintroduced the Medicaid Accountability and Care Act of 2017, legislation he says is designed to improve Medicaid financing through controlled spending, value-based incentives and fraud reduction. In a statement, Cassidy, a medical doctor, says modernizing how Medicaid is financed “can incentivize more efficient, effective and patient centered care.”
Learn about the Affordable Care Act
The two leading conservative groups in the House both announced their opposition to House leadership health care plans based on a leaked draft and reports that the bill would cost more than expected while covering fewer people than the Affordable Care Act . In other words, the real world.
Could California go it alone on Obamacare?
That’s a question lawmakers might be asking residents in the months to come as President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress scurry to repeal the Affordable Care Act and scramble for a plan to replace it. One GOP-generated proposal would allow individual states to keep Obamacare-style health insurance – for a price.
Pro-Life Groups Raise Concerns About Obamacare Replacement Plans
Dozens of pro-life leaders sent a letter to Congress Thursday afternoon urging Republican senators and representatives to honor their commitment to prohibit taxpayer-funding of elective abortion coverage under any health-care bill to replace Obamacare. “Currently, any bill funding healthcare must carry restrictions on abortion funding or it will end up funding the brutal practice of abortion,” the letter states.
GOP lawmakers fret over repeal of Affordable Care Act
… how to prepare a replacement plan that can be ready to launch at the time of repeal; how to avoid deep damage to the health insurance market; how to keep premiums affordable for middle-class families; even how to avoid the political consequences of …
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito: Reform Option Retains Healthcare
… Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana; Sen. Margaret Collins, R-Maine; and Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, will allow “better health outcomes, to do it more efficiently, to give more choices and hopefully to control the cost as well,” and she thinks it puts …
Editorial: Obamacare repeal would give to the rich and take from the poor
The debate on repealing Obamacare has rightly focused on all those Americans who would be hurt – the estimated 18 million who could lose their health insurance in the first year.
GOP senators present Obamacare alternative
… as an “Obamacare replacement plan.” The duo is promising that the proposal would give more power to the states on health care policy, increase access to affordable insurance and help cover millions of Americans who are currently uninsured. …
Louisiana senator to unveil Obamacare replacement
Within hours of becoming the leader of the free world, President Trump’s first action took a swipe at President Obama’s landmark health care reform, signing an executive order that asks federal agencies to ease the burden of Obamacare. FOX 8 Political Analyst Mike Sherman says that pen stroke may simply be a nod to supporters that Trump’s promise to repeal Obamacare won’t be forgotten.
Congressional Republicans try to find health care compromise
… repeal until they’ve settled on a replacement will announce an alternative plan to give states the choice to keep the health care law or be granted flexibility to expand Medicaid and other coverage options. That alternative, from Sens. Susan …
Republican senator would let states keep Obamacare if they want
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy is making an offer to Democrats he hopes they won’t refuse: If their states like Obamacare, they can keep it. A doctor who worked for decades in charity hospitals and clinics before joining Congress, Cassidy plans to introduce soon an updated version of his health care plan aimed at giving states flexibility to keep Obamacare, nix it entirely or transition to a new system of health savings accounts and automatic health plan enrollment.