Mitch McConnell had some time to try to rework his health care bill and a version of his revisions has leaked out. It looks like he made the calculation that he needed to keep the Medicaid cuts to hold conservatives…
Category: Health Care
And Now the Trump Presidency Begins to Fail for Real
Reading the New York Times last night and this morning, I felt like I had been plagiarized. It seems that what was once a lonely voice is rapidly becoming common wisdom. It’s been a recurring theme of my analysis for…
Governors Led the Revolt Against GOP Health Care Bill
In the New York Times, reporter Alexander Burns does a nice job of detailing how a bipartisan group of governors, led by Republican John Kasich of Ohio and Democrat John Hickenlooper of Colorado, teamed up to kill (for now, at…
Compare How the ACA and ACHA Were Created
On July 15th, 2009, I wrote a piece at my home blog Booman Tribune called Watching Health Care Get Built. It was a detailed recap of the experience I had on the previous day watching on CSPAN2 as the Senate’s…
Now Trump Will Take Away Your Contraception
A lot of women I talk to are concerned about Donald Trump and his connections to the Russians, but express concern that Vice-President Pence would be an even worse president for them because he seems to come straight out of…
The GOP’s Turn to Fake Science Should Have Consequences
While I was reading two articles this morning, I had a flashback to the late 1990s. The first article was written by Max Ehrenfreund of the Washington Post, and it was about how the University of Chicago’s Booth School of…
Chris Cillizza: the High Priest of Higher Broderism
Here’s something from Chris Cillizza that can be nominated for most unintentionally ironic column of the year. When House Republicans secured their 216th “yes” on the American Health Care Act Thursday, Democrats immediately began taunting their across-the-aisle rivals. “Na Na…
Voting No On AHCA Won’t Save House Republicans
It remains to be seen if the House Democrats were prescient and justified in doing this as the Republicans lined up to vote for passage of the American Health Care Act. Democrats on the House floor signing "Na-na-na, na-na-na, hey,…
Should You Hope the AHCA Passes the House?
Jennifer Rubin describes my ambivalence about the House bill to destroy the Affordable Care Act pretty well. The political consultant in me can see no more optimal result than one in which the bill passes the House with the bare…
TrumpCare is ChumpCare
President Trump sent White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney down to Capitol Hill last night with an ultimatum to pass the health care reform bill or forever keep their peace. The meeting didn’t go well but it did have its…