Washington, DC – In response to tonight’s State of the Union address, during which President Donald Trump falsely claimed to have repealed the Affordable Care Act, duplicitously claimed he is working to end the opioid crisis, and ignored the fact that under his watch, millions of Americans have lost coverage and millions more are facing…
Officer Ryan Holets is a true role model, one of the many dedicated Americans who work hard every day to fight our nation’s raging opioid crisis. Sadly, President Trump is not among them. For those Americans who had hoped that Trump might address this raging epidemic with the urgency it deserves, tonight’s hollow words echo…
During his State of the Union address, President Trump doubled down on the war on health care his administration and his Republican allies in Congress waged last year, saying he “repealed the core of disastrous Obamacare.” These relentless attacks and sabotage of our health care have real consequences for people across the country. Enough is…
AMA, AHA, AHIP, Others Call For “Real, Bipartisan Solutions” (Nashville, TN) – This weekend, a coalition of America’s top health care provider advocacy groups and insurance groups strongly urged the Senate to reject the Graham-Cassidy health care repeal bill. In a joint statement released Saturday, the coalition states, “While we sometimes disagree on important issues…
The RAND corporation has released a new study outlining the devastating impact that the latest GOP attempt to repeal health care would have on veterans. The research shows that the ACA drastically increased health coverage among non-elderly veterans–by about 36 percent. The newfound health coverage enjoyed by those thousands of veterans is now in jeopardy…
Repeal Bill Would Leave Many Without Essential Health Benefits Coverage and Charge More for People with Pre-Existing Conditions A new analysis from the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities (CBPP) exposes an obscure provision within the GOP’s new health care repeal bill that would allow states to waive core protections for people with pre-existing conditions.…
Today, sixteen advocacy groups representing the foremost leaders in the health industry released a joint statement condemning the secret, partisan Graham-Cassidy health care repeal bill and urging Senators to oppose the legislation. The groups oppose the plan because of its negative impacts on “patients’ access to adequate and affordable health coverage and care.” They cite…
(Nashville, TN)– This week, the Washington Post published an article regarding the latest Republican health care repeal effort known as the Graham-Cassidy plan. The below charts from that article show how similar these partisan repeal bills really are. According to a Center on Budget Policy and Priorities (CBPP) report, the proposed plan would drastically cut…
Protect Our Care Statement on Stopping Repeal through Sabotage (Nashville, Tennessee) After the Senate failed to pass any version of health care repeal last night and President Trump issued another twitter threat to continue his campaign to repeal the Affordable Care Act through sabotage, Protect Our Care Campaign Director Leslie Dach today called on Republicans…