Tag Archives: healthcare
Bernie Sanders calls study projecting trillion dollar costs for universal healthcare 'grossly misleading'
GOP Tax Plan Could Mean Higher Healthcare Costs for Middle Class
Healthcare Mandate or Not, Blunt Says Tax Bill Will 'Pass the Senate'
Trump pressures U.S. senators to back Republican healthcare bill
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted Senator John McCain for dealing a possibly fatal blow to the latest Republican attempt to dismantle Obamacare.
Interior Department watchdog to investigate threat to Alaska senator on healthcare
The Interior Department’s inspector general said it would investigate a reported threat by the agency’s head, Ryan Zinke, against Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski’s state of Alaska last week over her opposition to her party’s efforts to repeal Obamacare. Zinke called Murkowski and Alaska’s other U.S. senator, Republican Dan Sullivan, on July 26, the day after Murkowski’s crucial vote against a motion to begin debate on the healthcare overhaul, the Alaska Dispatch News reported.
Twitter became (hilarious) John McCain body language experts before the healthcare vote
C-SPAN. Since McCain's vote was unknown (rather than give a hint, he told
Politico to "watch the show" before heading into the chamber), the fate of millions of peoples' healthcare became a nail-biter season finale on a bad show. SEE ALSO: Actually Jeff Bezos, I'm the world's wealthiest man if you count how rich I am in love and also my drug empire Journalists and regular viewers became McCain body language experts, watching the Republican Senator's every move, smile, blink, and nose scratch. All I can say right now is Chuck Schumer and John McCain had a conversation and Schumer left smiling. — Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 28, 2017 I don't know what to make of this but McCain's body language is not that of someone wanting this to pass. But this is just speculation. — Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) July 28, 2017 John McCain just applauded for Chuck Schumer's floor speech calling for senators to vote against skinny repeal, so there's that. — Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) July 28, 2017 Chalk it up to the drawn-out vote, late-night delirium and the absurdity of hundreds of thousands of people being forced to stay up and speculate about whether their representatives will vote to drastically change their lives twice a week, but body language tweets soon became very weird and very, very funny. wow mccain just blew a kiss at schumer who caught it & put it in his pocket to save for later?? mcconnell is spinning in circles shrieking!! — Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 28, 2017 I'm bad at this body language stuff — what does it mean that all the senators and staffers are lying motionless on the floor? — Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) July 28, 2017 Schumer just lifted McCain up over his head while "I Had the Time of my Life" blared over the Senate PA system. Is this a good sign? — Troostwornall (@TroostWornall) July 28, 2017 John McCain vulgar gesticulation at Schumer. Twerking. Senators crying, vomiting — Ed Zitron (@edzitron) July 28, 2017 The hopeful reading of body language around McCain on the floor combined with the cynicism of twitter is creating weather. — Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) July 28, 2017 Lotta y'all ain't been reading this much body language since prom night — Sam Sanders (@samsanders) July 28, 2017 A raven just appeared and alighted on McCain's headMcCain didn't reactLooks like McConnell mouthed "Get that raven outta here"HMMM t.co/RTaRObfzY6 — Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) July 28, 2017 huge ups to people going in on reading john mccain's body language on the senate floor. tomorrow you can come over and read my dog's mind — Nicole Silverberg (@nsilverberg) July 28, 2017 It's hard to read too much into body language, but McCain's back looks limber and he's tying his hair back in a ponytail. — Lew Morton (@LewMorton) July 28, 2017 Now McCain and Schumer doing the OA movements at each other. What does it mean? — Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) July 28, 2017 Nihilistic, delirious Twitter is the best Twitter in 2017.
Sen. John McCain just contradicted his own healthcare vote in a speech
After healthcare failure, Republicans face similar divisions on tax reform
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in Congress unveiled a fiscal 2018 budget plan as a first step to major U.S. tax reform on Tuesday, only to face the same divisions between conservatives and moderates that helped killed their efforts to replace Obamacare. The $ 4 trillion spending blueprint, released by the House of Representatives budget committee, could become a new flashpoint for Republican in-fighting because it links future tax cuts for businesses and individuals with $ 203 billion in mandatory spending cuts that would reduce benefits for the poor. The Republican push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, collapsed in the Senate late on Monday after a tug-of-war between party moderates who wanted to preserve healthcare benefits for lower-income Americans and conservatives who wanted to scale them back.
Senate delays healthcare vote as McCain recovers from surgery
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate will delay its consideration of healthcare legislation while Arizona Republican Senator John McCain recuperates from surgery, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday. McCain’s absence cast doubt on whether the Senate would be able to pass the legislation to dismantle and replace Obamacare.
Senate delays healthcare vote as McCain recovers from surgery
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate will delay its consideration of healthcare legislation while Arizona Republican Senator John McCain recuperates from surgery, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday. McCain’s absence cast doubt on whether the Senate would be able to pass the legislation to dismantle and replace Obamacare.
