A member of the Senate Republican healthcare working group is working to build support for an alternative to the House-passed Obamacare repeal bill, one that allows for cross-state insurance purchases, and includes medical malpractice reform, health savings accounts and the expansion of association health plans. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also wants to pass just one bill to get the job done, not two, as currently planned by House Republican leaders.
Some Republican senators are hoping for a quick turnaround of the chamber’s own version of legislation to repeal Obamacare, but major differences over Medicaid cutsalready have become early sticking points.
The Huffington Post’s poll on the American Health Care Act, taken twice in March and now this month, reveals a 20-point swing in the bill’s favor, although it still remains unpopular.
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President Trump would likely not be in the Oval Office today if not for his pledge to appoint conservative judges to federal courts, particularly the Supreme Court. But conservatives should be even more interested in whom he appoints to the lower courts, which hear and decide the vast majority of cases.
Progressive historian David Garrow compared former President Barack Obama to a sellout for how he changed as a person and politician in Chicago as he moved to the Senate and the White House.
Nothing seems older than “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the book written in 1985 by Margaret Atwood and the televised series that was filmed last summer, which is streaming on laptops right now. Both portray the doom and destruction that wassupposed to evolve from the Reagan agenda, but (shockingly?) did not.
