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the national interest
Apr. 2, 2019
By Jonathan Chait
2018 midterms
Oct. 17, 2018
McConnell Thinks Talking About Repealing Obamacare Helps the GOP in the Midterms If Republicans make Senate gains and hang onto the House, it’s remotely possible. That’s apparently what the GOP thinks its base wants to hear.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Aug. 2, 2018
Trumpcare Means Leaving the Poor and Sick to Fend for Themselves The Republican health-care agenda has dissolved into a rearguard sabotage campaign.
By Jonathan Chait
Trump’s New Insurance Rules Put Women and Children at Risk “These plans aren’t for everyone,” says HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
By Sarah Nechamkin
Collins and Murkowski Show No Signs of Bucking the GOP on Kavanaugh Confirmation While still officially undecided, the two putatively pro-choice GOP senators are helping their party smooth Brett Kavanaugh’s path to confirmation.
By Ed Kilgore
Paul Ryan’s Long Fight to Destroy the Welfare State Ends in Defeat After failing to repeal Obamacare and “reform” Medicaid, Ryan looked forward to more years of futility and decided to pack it in.
By Ed Kilgore
last night on late night
Sept. 26, 2017
By Tolly Wright
last night on late night
Sept. 21, 2017
Jimmy Kimmel Fires Back at Republican Leaders and Fox News Over Health-Care Plan Kimmel took shots at his critics — including Chris Christie, Bill Cassidy, and Lindsey Graham — while continuing to decry the latest Trumpcare plan.
By Tolly Wright
The CBO Won’t Score the Final Trumpcare Bill for Weeks To pass the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill, Senate Republicans will need to vote for the law before the budget office releases a coverage estimate.
By Eric Levitz
The GOP Is Throwing a Hail Mary on Obamacare Repeal It will require speed and stealth, cooperation from CBO, and a rubber-stamp House vote, but the Graham-Cassidy bill has a slim chance of becoming law.
By Ed Kilgore
Hold On – Could the GOP’s Last-Ditch Effort to Kill Obamacare Actually Pass? Some health-care experts are sounding the alarm, but it still looks like a long shot.
By Margaret Hartmann
The Final Obamacare Repeal-and-Replace Scheme Is Headed for a Ditch It’s an underfunded version of an earlier plan to let states control health-care policy. But Graham-Cassidy is probably a bill whose time has passed.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Trump Supporters Might Not Care That He’s Not Getting Anything Done It’s widely assumed conservatives will punish the GOP in 2018 for a poor record in Congress. Don’t count on it.
By Ed Kilgore
7 Big Questions About What Congress Will Do in September The big storm in Texas and Louisiana has improved the visibility in Washington — but there’s still a lot to do and little time to do it.
By Ed Kilgore
Parliamentarian Deals Trumpcare a Final Death Blow Now, a bipartisan health-care bill may rise from its ashes — if Senate Republicans can convince Trump to pursue solutions over sabotage.
By Eric Levitz
Trump Needs to Stop Whining About the Filibuster For all his complaining about the Senate’s 60-vote requirement, Trump passed up the chance to take the issue to GOP voters in Alabama.
By Ed Kilgore
The Trump-McConnell Feud Becoming a ‘Cold War’ At the worst possible time, relations between the president and the leader of his party in the Senate have become frosty, distant, and even combative.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Could Bust Loose Again at Phoenix Rally It would be natural for the president to follow up on controlled remarks about Afghanistan with an uninhibited base-feeding frenzy the next night.
By Ed Kilgore
White House and McConnell Trade Barbs Over Trumpcare Failure The Senate Majority Leader suggests Trump’s impatience led to Trumpcare’s defeat. Trump thinks McConnell is just making excuses.
By Eric Levitz
House Moderates Have a Bipartisan Health-Care Bill But will the GOP leadership allow moderates to make Obamacare work better, when conservative donors want to see it fail?
By Eric Levitz
interesting times
July 28, 2017
A Week of Reckoning Consider the violence the president has done to the structures of American democracy in just the past seven days.
By Andrew Sullivan
GOP Health-Care Drive Ends Not With a Bang But a Whimper Republicans couldn’t come up with a workable health-care plan, so they kept kicking the can down the road. The road finally ended in the Senate today.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
July 27, 2017
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 27, 2017
By Jonathan Chait
Maybe There’s No Light at the End the Tunnel for the GOP Health Bill After All All the tactical brilliance that has kept unpopular and divisive GOP health care legislation alive disguises a fatal strategic blindness.
By Ed Kilgore
Conservatives Just Lost Their Favorite Part of Trumpcare The Senate parliamentarian ruled that the GOP can’t roll back Obamacare’s regulations without 60 votes. That makes “skinny repeal” more dangerous.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
July 27, 2017
‘I Haven’t Thought It Through,’ Admits Anti-Obamacare Senator Thinking it through before you vote for a huge change to the health-care system is for “big-government liberal” weenies.
By Jonathan Chait
The ‘Skinny Bill’ Is a Farce. Here’s the Real Reason Republicans Are Doing It. Some want to repeal Obamacare, others to replace it, others to repair it. Why are Republicans pushing a bill that does none of the above?
By Jonathan Chait
McCain Gives Heroic Speech Denouncing Terrible Thing That He Just Voted For The senator calls on his colleagues to abandon their indefensible approach to Obamacare repeal — minutes after voting to let them keep at it.
By Eric Levitz
Senate GOP to Reform Health-Care System on the Fly, in a Blindfold Senate Republicans don’t know what their bill is or what it does. But they’re going to vote on it, anyway.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
July 24, 2017
Study Disproves Trump’s Health-Care Promises to GOP Moderates They’ll take care of the Trumpcare victims for two years, then they’re on their own.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 24, 2017
Trumpcare Is the Worst-Designed Social Policy in History The domestic equivalent of invading Iraq without a plan for the occupation.
By Jonathan Chait
Talking to the Former CBO Director About the Health-Care Fight Doug Elmendorf, who oversaw the CBO during the battle over Obamacare, on how the agency operates.
By Lily Carollo
Why Did Mitch McConnell Fail, and What’s Next for Health Care? A former staffer for now-retired Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on the Trumpcare debacle.
By Lily Carollo
CBO Says Repealing Obamacare Without a Replacement Would Be a Disaster CBO says a “straight repeal” would cost 32 million their health coverage while doubling premiums.
By Ed Kilgore
Donald Trump Is a Victim of Congressional Republicans’ Incompetence The GOP should blame its own lack of policy vision — not the president — for Trumpcare’s demise.
By Eric Levitz
Trumpcare’s ‘Orphans’ Must Search for New Homes Several provisions conservatives hitched to Obamacare repeal will need new legislative vehicles now that Trumpcare has crashed.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
July 18, 2017
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 17, 2017
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 17, 2017
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 17, 2017
Republicans Give Away the Game on Trumpcare Tom Price admits that insurance companies will go back to weeding out the sick.
By Jonathan Chait
After Trumpcare, Republicans Will Have to Tackle an Even Bigger Mess Yes, the health-care debacle has stalled budget and tax bills, but Republicans are nowhere close to agreement on the broad outlines of a fiscal plan.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
July 14, 2017
Republicans Confident Senator Dean Heller Will Be ‘Bought Off,’ Pass Trumpcare Republican statements about policies they can’t support have not meant much so far.
By Jonathan Chait
The More the Senate Health-Care Bill Changes, the More It Stays the Same It has a few extra tweaks, but the essence remains intact. And, like its predecessor, it seems dead in the water.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
July 12, 2017
By Jonathan Chait
GOP Lawmakers Bought Health-Insurance Stocks While Advancing Trumpcare Congressman Mike Conaway’s family bought stock in UnitedHealth the same day that a bill repealing Obamacare’s taxes on insurers advanced in committee.
By Eric Levitz
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