Outside the Beltway

Republicans are finding that their constituents aren’t very happy about the passage of the American Health Care Act.

The American Health Care Act may have sailed through the House, but the Senate is another story.

As usual, an attempt to explain congressional behavior brings us back to the issue of our basic institutions. The way we elect congress matters.

By the barest of margins, the House passed its bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but the future of that bill is highly uncertain.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

There’s been a palace coup at The Heritage Foundation.

House Republicans are making yet another push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but they once again may not have the votes.

After 100 days in office, President Trump has very little to show for his work except to show that there’s no reason to trust his judgment going forward.

Once again, the GOP punts on ‘repeal and replace’ because they don’t have the votes.

The House Freedom Caucus is apparently getting behind a revised version of the GOP’s plan to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act, but the GOP hasn’t revealed what the new plan entails.

Faced with the fact that it has little to show for its first 100 days in office, the Trump Administration is pressuring Congress to come up with a new health care reform bill before the end of next week.

Two new polls show Donald Trump hitting new lows in the polls as we get closer to his 100th day in office.

Donald Trump has basically declared war on the people who blocked the AHCA from passing last week.

Republicans are saying that repealing the PPACA isn’t off the table, but practically speaking it probably is.

After just sixty-six days, there are some disturbing patterns emerging from the Trump Administration.

This was one for the history books.

The failure of the AHCA shows that Donald Trump doesn’t know the slightest thing about leadership or how to be President.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

Rachel Maddow hyped the fact that she had obtained a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return last night. It turned out to be much ado about nothing.

Part Two in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan. This post examines several ideas advanced by conservatives, and the reasons they aren’t complete answers to the problems we face.

The Congressional Budget Office delivered some bad news yesterday to House Republicans on their replacement for Obamacare.

Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.

Ted Cruz becomes a little more honest about his plan to “defund” Obamacare.

Most of the early reaction on the right consider’s the selection of Paul Ryan a smart move on Mitt Romney’s part, but you could also say it’s just risky.

The House engaged in a mostly pointless action yesterday afternoon.

The Republican strategy on health care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision needs some tweaking.

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.

The next round in the health care reform wars is about to start.