A complete failure of Trump's leadership -- CNN

Julian Zelizer says the collapse of the GOP effort to repeal Obamacare is an epic fail by Donald Trump, who subverted the process with distractions, threats and a failure to engage with the details of the policy.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/28/opinions/trump-complete-failure-of-leadership-opinion-zelizer/index.html

Scaramucci Lashes Out, GOP Scrambles on Health Care: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at the backlash the Trump White House continues to face over the President's cruel and sudden decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD91AOD4XCk&feature=youtu.be

Thousands Of Nuns Sign A Blistering Letter To Senate Republicans On Health Care -- HuffPost

More than 7,000 Catholic sisters have signed a letter urging senators to "cast a life-affirming 'no' vote" on the Republican health care bill proposed in the Senate, calling it "the most harmful legislation to American families in our lifetime." ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nuns-on-the-bus-health-care_us_597616a6e4b00e4363e11315

Disabled Children And The Senate Health Plan (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Republican Senators assured reporters, protestors and whoever would listen that their bill to replace Obamacare didn’t cut Medicaid — it just slowed the rate of growth of what was already one of the most expensive federal programs. Disabled people, and families of children with special needs, say GOP plans for Medicaid slash the supports that give them quality of life. -- Ray Suarez
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/07/11/disabled-children-senate-health-plan

A conservative Republican (me) supports single-payer (very reluctantly), because there is no real alternative

The plain fact is that about half of Republicans — including me — objects to Obysmalcare not due to the way in which it attempts to provide insurance coverage for everyone, but that the government is trying to provide health care coverage for those who cannot or will not pay for it themselves in the first place. The problem is that the other half of Republicans might hate Obumblecare¹ but agree with the cockamamie notion that the government should be responsible for providing health care coverage, and the GOP’s electoral advantage depends in part on a significant number of people who would lose health insurance or Medicaid if the current law is repealed....
http://www.redstate.com/diary/kentucky_dana/2017/07/20/conservative-republican-supports-single-payer-reluctantly-no-real-alternative/

Here’s what Mitch McConnell wants to do to the U.S. health care system -- ThinkProgress.org

Whether they do repeal-and-replace or straight repeal, the results would be devastating. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/heres-what-mitch-mcconnell-wants-to-do-to-the-u-s-health-care-system-956364e3ad63

Fact Check: Trump's Confusing Remarks To Senate Republicans On Health Care -- NPR

After another failed attempt at overhauling Obamacare, President Trump tried to sell his party's repeal efforts (and push some senators into line) at a Wednesday lunch. Here's what he said. ...
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538171317/fact-check-trumps-confusing-remarks-to-senate-republicans-on-health-care

Foes of Obama-Era Rule Work to Undo Birth Control Mandate - The New York Times

From the obscure perch of a backbench senator’s office, Katy Talento used to warn against what she saw as the health hazards of birth control pills — cancer, infertility and miscarriage. From his post at a Christian legal advocacy group, Matthew Bowman spent years attacking the requirement that most health insurance plans cover contraception under the Affordable Care Act....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/politics/birth-control-contraception-health-care-bill.html?utm_content=buffer92f94&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&_r=1

Bernie Sanders MAGNIFICENT Response To Trump's Health Care Failure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlNxHVPd7o&feature=youtu.be

Repeal Now, Replace Later, Reelect Never

With the Senate's healthcare bill now dead, Stephen tries to find the words to describe how miserably Republicans are failing....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZF2zlRP10c&feature=youtu.be

Condoms don't work, smoking doesn't kill, GOP is saving Medicaid—the world class lies of Mike Pence

Mike Pence recently sent the political punditry world on fire when he addressed the National Governors Association and made the outrageous and fictitious claim that the disastrous Republican wealthcare bill “strenghtened and secured Medicaid.”...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1681393

Are a third of people with drug problems on Medicaid, as Elizabeth Warren said? | PolitiFact

In a video denouncing the Senate health care bill’s slashing of Medicaid funding, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., emphasized the importance of Medicaid in battling the opioid crisis. Warren called an additional $45 billion introduced in the new Senate health care bill to fight the opioid crisis insufficient if spending on Medicaid is to decrease....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/18/elizabeth-warren/are-third-people-drug-problems-medicaid-elizabeth-/

Opinion: Resistance works

Over the July 4 recess, most Republican senators decided not to hold town hall meetings with their constituents. One of the rare exceptions was Jerry Moran, a second-term senator from Kansas. And the opposition to the Republican health care bill was ready. Moran held his meeting on July 6 in Palco, a town in western Kansas with fewer than 300 residents. Yet more than 100 Kansans showed up, and they had one overwhelming message for their senator: Don’t take health insurance away from people....
http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2017/07/18/opinion-today?nlid=78638145

Insurers blast Cruz amendment to Trumpcare in rare joint letter to Senate leadership

Late Friday, the major players in health insurance—America's Health Insurance Plans, which is the trade group representing insurers, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association—blasted Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment to Trumpcare, saying it "is simply unworkable in any form and would undermine protections for those with pre-existing medical conditions, increase premiums and lead to widespread terminations of coverage for people currently enrolled in the individual market."...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1681396

Health Secretary Tom Price says he has no problem with pre-Obamacare health insurance system -- Salon

Tom Price, who serves as secretary of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump, admitted Sunday that he has no problem with the mass suffering that existed prior to the passage of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/17/health-secretary-tom-price-says-he-has-no-problem-with-pre-obamacare-health-insurance-system/

Tom Price admits that the new Trumpcare is only repeal, no replace -- ThinkProgress.org

Trump's secretary of health and human services says all insurers have to do "is dust off how they did business before Obamacare." ...
https://thinkprogress.org/tom-price-admits-trumpcare-returns-to-bad-old-days-24aaf7b13609

Mike Pence's two misleading Medicaid claims -- CNN

Vice President Mike Pence was sent to the National Governors Association's meeting in Rhode Island on Friday to convince skeptical Republican governors to back the Senate GOP's health care bill. ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/17/politics/mike-pence-medicaid-fact-check/index.html

Republicans Leap Into the Awful Known - The New York Times

Sometime in the next few days the Congressional Budget Office will release its analysis of the latest version of the Republican health care plan. Senator Mitch McConnell is doing all he can to prevent a full assessment, for example by trying to keep the C.B.O. from scoring the Cruz provision, which would let insurers discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. Nonetheless, everyone expects a grim prognosis....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/opinion/trumpcare-congressional-budget-office.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20170717&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=1&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1&_r=1

Transgender health care targeted in crusade to undo ACA -- PBS NewsHour

Because Medicaid covers a disproportionately high number of transgender people, the potential change could heap hardship on an already embattled population. ...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/transgender-health-care-targeted-crusade-undo-aca/

Here's how the revised version of the Senate health care bill would affect you -- USA TODAY

A look at how the revised Senate health care bill would affect you. ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/13/senate-health-care-bill-how-it-would-affect-you/475795001/