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Obamacare supporters rally against congressional repeal efforts

EghtesadOnline: Supporters of Obamacare staged rallies across the country on Thursday denouncing efforts by President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders to repeal the landmark law that has extended medical insurance coverage to some 20 million Americans.
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Publish Date:24/March/2017 | 10:18

Obamacare supporters rally against congressional repeal efforts

EghtesadOnline: Supporters of Obamacare staged rallies across the country on Thursday denouncing efforts by President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders to repeal the landmark law that has extended medical insurance coverage to some 20 million Americans.
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Publish Date:24/March/2017 | 10:18

Conservatives rebel against Trump-backed Republican healthcare plan

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Republican legislation to replace the Obamacare healthcare law but the measure faced a rebellion by conservative groups and lawmakers, complicating its chances for passage in the U.S. Congress.
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Publish Date:08/March/2017 | 06:02

U.S. Republicans unveil plan to dismantle Obamacare , critics pounce

EghtesadOnline: Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew immediate fire from Democrats.
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Publish Date:07/March/2017 | 05:34

U.S. House speaker says Obamacare replacement will pass this year

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. House of Representatives' Republican leader said on Tuesday that legislation to replace former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law would be completed this year, trying to dispel the idea that the party is retreating from its campaign promise to dismantle Obamacare quickly.
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Publish Date:08/February/2017 | 10:28

Trump Order Declares He’ll Seek ‘Prompt Repeal’ of Obamacare

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday commanding federal agencies to try to waive or delay requirements of Obamacare that impose economic or regulatory burdens on states, families, the health-care industry and others.
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Publish Date:21/January/2017 | 04:38

Republican Governors Balk as Congress Races to End Obamacare

EghtesadOnline: Republican governors, while remaining publicly committed to ending Obamacare , are telling their congressional delegations that repealing the health-care law without an adequate replacement would ravage budgets and swamp hospitals with the uninsured.
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Publish Date:20/January/2017 | 13:25

Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in replacing Obamacare

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump aims to replace Obamacare with a plan that would envisage "insurance for everybody," he said in an interview with the Washington Post published on Sunday night.
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Publish Date:16/January/2017 | 04:36

GOP Embarks on Obamacare Repeal With No Agreement on Replacement

EghtesadOnline: Congressional Republicans completed the first step Friday toward their long-promised repeal of Obamacare , but now they face the much more difficult task of finding a way to unravel the massive health-care law and replace it.
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Publish Date:14/January/2017 | 05:26

Senate to act this week on Obamacare repeal, McConnell says

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday.
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Publish Date:09/January/2017 | 24:42

Obama says Sanders' supporters helped undermine Obamacare

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama said on Friday that criticism from the left wing of his own Democratic Party helped feed into the unpopularity of Obamacare , his signature healthcare reform law.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 15:19

Growing GOP Doubts Jeopardize Swift Obamacare Repeal in Senate

EghtesadOnline: A fourth Republican senator has voiced strong doubts about the party’s current strategy to repeal Obamacare without detailing a replacement, more than enough to scuttle efforts to deliver swiftly on a central promise from President-elect Donald Trump.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 05:08

Republicans make repealing Obamacare 'first order of business'

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama exhorted fellow Democrats on Wednesday to preserve his legacy-defining healthcare law as Republicans moved ahead with their long-sought bid to scrap it in what Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the "first order of business" of Donald Trump's administration.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 04:50

U.S. Republican senator introduces Obamacare repeal resolution

EghtesadOnline: Republican U.S. Senator Mike Enzi introduced on Tuesday a resolution allowing for the repeal of President Barack Obama's signature health insurance program, which provides coverage to millions of Americans, Enzi's office said in a statement.
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Publish Date:04/January/2017 | 05:06

U.S. judge blocks transgender, abortion-related Obamacare protections

EghtesadOnline: A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act to transgender health and abortion-related services.
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Publish Date:01/January/2017 | 05:20