The conservative House Freedom Caucus opposed the proposed “American Health Care Act” —a.k.a. RINOcare — because it was a lousy bill. It was a lousy bill because Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has a political tin-ear. Unfortunately, some pundits…
According to the New York Times: “Guys, we’ve got one shot here,” [President Trump] told members of the Freedom Caucus at a meeting in the Cabinet Room, according to a person present in the room who spoke on the condition…
It’s been a while since I’ve agreed with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, but he’s spot on here: Indeed, Speaker Paul Ryan (Wisconsin) could do worse than cancel the floor vote today on the American Health Care Act (a.k.a. RINOcare)….
Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed “American Health Care Act” (a.k.a. RINOcare) got a bit of a makeover on Monday. Now the pig has rouge and eye shadow in addition to lipstick. To be fair, some of the changes are good ones. Amendments…
Will Speaker Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act (AHCA) ever become law? That seems unlikely, unless it undergoes major changes. According to the Washington Post: Critics of the legislation warned Wednesday that the measure remains far short of the 216…
There has been a running conversation over the last few days between David Catron and me about House Speaker Paul Ryan’s proposed “American Health Care Act” (AHCA). Catron supports the bill; I don’t. Catron has responded to my response to his defense of the American Health…
When the Congressional Budget Office published its score of the Republican Obamacare replacement bill, the American Health Care Act, something that should have already been obvious to the GOP leadership became even more painfully so. And yet House Speaker Paul…
House Speaker Paul Ryan is talking out of both sides of his mouth on health care reform. He claims that his proposed “American Health Care Act” (AHCA) will increase choice and lower costs. Yet the actual bill preserves many of…
From the moment the GOP released the American Health Care Act, the first iteration of what will evolve into Obamacare repeal and replace legislation, conservatives have been griping. The editors of Investor’s Business Daily sum up the general reaction of…