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Watch President Biden, Vice President Harris and former President Barack Obama deliver remarks on the Patient Protection Act and lowering healtcare costs for families. President Biden also announced additional actions to save families hundreds of dollars a month on their healthcare expenses.
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U.S. Representative Kim Schrier, the only woman doctor in Congress, has delivered her first speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. Watch it now.
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This is a really, really, really big deal… and proof that progress is possible even in the reddest of the states.
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Jimmy has found himself in the middle of a battle over American health care, so tonight he responds to more criticism from Senator Bill Cassidy and those other jerks who want to take our health care away.
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Money for war is magically always there; money for healthcare must be counted bean by bean. — Adam Johnson: There are three types of single-payer
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Jimmy responds to Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator Lindsey Graham, Governor Chris Christie, and Brian Kilmeade after they reacted to his monologue about the #GrahamCassidy health care bill.
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Jimmy shares his thoughts on Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham’s new health “care” bill including why it doesn’t pass Cassidy’s “Jimmy Kimmel Test.”
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I would strongly support reintroducing some form of public option — a way for people to buy into public insurance — that could eventually lead
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Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine opposes Mitch McConnell’s Trumpcare bill, at least in its current form, and she explained why to The New York Times.
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An earlier House version of Trumpcare was scored by the CBO as likely to result in 24 million Americans becoming uninsured. This Senate version is barely less awful.
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“I always wondered what you get for the person who has everything, and now I know, it’s cutting benefits to young children, poor families, the infirm, the elderly.”
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“Jimmy returns from his time off after his newborn son Billy had heart surgery and he talks about the outpouring of love and support he has received, the not-so-nice things some people have said, and he speaks with Louisiana’s Republican Senator Bill Cassidy about the health care debate.”
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Oh, gosh. Let’s put it this way: People in my office have read all parts of the bill. I don’t think any individual has read
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His vote apparently not needed for the legislation’s passage, Congressman Dave Reichert (WA-08) announced this morning that he will be opposing the newest incarnation of
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“House Republicans are finally within striking distance on their [scheme to gut] health care bill, flipping at least two members through a small amendment and
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This is a monologue worth watching.
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Call Dave Reichert and tell him to oppose the newest incarnation of Trump/Ryancare. The Patient Protection Act has helped millions of Americans. Gutting its provisions would be catastrophic for families from coast to coast.
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Suzan DelBene lambastes Trumpcare in blistering House floor speech TRANSCRIPT: If Republicans crafted legislation that lived up to the promise of ‘insurance for everybody,’ they’d
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A spokesperson for Dave Reichert has told The Seattle Times’ Jim Brunner he is not yet committed to voting for the Trumpcare bill being pushed
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U.S. Representatives Suzan DelBene and Pramila Jayapal have been forcefully speaking out against the House Republicans’ extremely destructive Trumpcare bill as it has speedily made
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Cruel, cold-hearted Oklahoma House Republicans are seeking to deprive over a hundred thousand of their constituents access to Medicaid in order to close a budget shortfall.
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