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The Affordable Care Act and working people are linked in ways that are often overlooked. But with the health care law likely to be repealed by a Republican-controlled Congress under President Donald "Obamacare is a Disaster" Trump, it's worth looking at - and caring about - the worry and confusion many workers now endure.
He declared that repealing and replacing his predecessor's health care law would be "one of his first acts as president." He released an 18-point plan for actions that would push forward sweeping ethics reforms and potentially undo scores of regulations.
As a candidate, Donald Trump made a slew of "Day One" promises that any president would find daunting. He declared that repealing and replacing his predecessor's health care law would be "one of his first acts as president."
Kellyanne Conway, now an adviser to President Donald Trump and seen here at a November campaign rally, said on NBC News that the Trump administration plans to move Medicaid financing to block grants administered by states. Republicans plan to turn control of Medicaid over to the states as part of their replacement for the Affordable Care Act, according to an adviser to President Donald Trump.
You've probably seen headlines warning that Republicans want to radically change Medicare. Potentially alarming words like "privatization" have been thrown around.
Former President Barack Obama has left office having added $9.3 trillion to the national debt, the Washington Free Beacon reported. When Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the outstanding public debt totaled $10.626 trillion.
A limousine burns during a protest in reaction to the inauguration of US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC on January 20, 2017. Photo: AFP Hundreds of thousands of protesters spearheaded by women's rights groups are set to converge on Washington Saturday to send a defiant message to America's new president, Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump quickly assumed the mantle of the White House on Friday, making his first executive order one aimed at his predecessor's signature health care law and swearing-in members of his national security team to his Cabinet. Hours after delivering a stinging rebuke of the political status quo in his inaugural address, Mr. Trump sat at the president's formal desk in the Oval Office as he signed the order that White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said was aimed at "minimizing the economic burden" of the "Obamacare" law.
Hours after inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed his first executive order, directing federal agencies to "ease the burden" of his predecessor Barack Obama 's health care law, or Obamacare. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus also sent out a memo to order all government agencies to immediately freeze regulations until further notified, according to White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
Shortly after his inaugural parade on Friday, President Donald Trump signed his first executive order, directing federal agencies to "ease the burden of Obamacare." The order is vague, and has no immediate effect on the health care system.
The Sacramento Bee editorial board posted an opinion article on Congressman Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday, saying he might be hazardous to his own district's health: "Gov. Jerry Brown and Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones couldn't have differed more in the style of their recent responses to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's request for "ideas" on the pending repeal of the Affordable Care Act. But the substance, in both cases, was sobering.
In a contentious hearing Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren grilled Rep. Tom Price - Donald Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services secretary - over his proposal to cut to cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as his introduction of legislation that directly benefitted a company he held stock in. Noting that more than 100 million Americans receive healthcare through the federal programs Medicare and Medicaid, Warren asked Price if he hopes to cut Medicaid funding by more than $1 trillion dollars, as his 2017 budget proposal suggests.
Vasectomies, which are not covered under President Barack Obama's health care law, are increasingly being included in state measures that would require insurers to provide cost-free coverage of birth control. Backers of laws and proposals in such states as Illinois, Vermont, Maryland and most recently New York say that if women can get tubal ligations with no out-of-pocket costs, men should be able to get their surgical sterilization covered cost-free as well.
Any doubts that repealing the core elements of the Affordable Care Act would have dire consequences for millions of Americans were laid to rest this week by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. In the first year after repeal, 18 million Americans would become uninsured, the CBO concluded .
For Senate Republicans, these are heady times. Against expectations, they maintained control of their majority and are virtually guaranteed of keeping control of the upper chamber after the 2018 midterms, thanks to a favorable map.
In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
If "repeal and replace" of the Affordable Care Act is Republicans' job one, defunding Planned Parenthood is a close second. In fact, the two priorities might be paired.
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Isn't this how we got ObamaCare in the first place? Donald Trump told the Washington Post on Sunday that his plan to replace ObamaCare would soon get unveiled along with the plan coming from Congress, and that it would ensure access to health "insurance for everybody," and that he rejected the idea that "if you can't pay for it, you can't get it."