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Vice President Pence, HHS Secretary Tom Price and CMS Administrator Seema Verma set out to win over the support from Republican Governors for the Republican Senate’s health care repeal bill during the National Governors Association summer meeting.  They gave their best attempts to cudgel, persuade and even outright lie about the repeal bill to win…

Every time Senate Republicans rework their devastating health care repeal bill, they promise us they’re going to make it better.   Every time they end up making it worse.   Their health care repeal is the least popular legislation in 30 years, with the support of only 12% of the public and opposition from bipartisan…

Listen In As Former Obama Health Officials to Discuss Senate’s Latest Health Care Repeal Bill Click PLAY:   Top health experts and former Obama Administration officials discuss the Senate Republicans release of their latest health care repeal bill. WHO:              Aviva Aron-Dine, Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former Senior…

Advocacy Group Says New Bill “Is Worse For Patients” (Nashville, TN) – Today, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) released a statement condemning the revised Senate health care bill, which the organization says would make it harder for those affected by cancer to access affordable and quality health care coverage.   The organization’s…

Bill Puts Health Care for More Than 1.6 Million Tennesseans at Risk (Nashville, Tennessee) – Senate Republicans claimed to have a new version of their devastating health care repeal bill, but it turns out the plan is essentially the same thing – a disaster that would strip health care from millions of Tennesseans, raise costs…

For immediate release: July 13, 2017 CONTACT:Simon Brown | Media Relations Manager (202) 535-3229 | sbrown@smallbusinessmajority.org New Senate Healthcare Bill Features More of the Same Old Problems for Small Businesses Statement from Small Business Majority Founder & CEO John Arensmeyer on why the U.S. Senate’s revised proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act is still bad for small businesses …

Reported Changes Will Not Affect Harmful Core Elements (NASHVILLE, TN) – As GOP Senators contend that their health care repeal bill is “salvageable,” a new analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows how proposed changes to the bill will actually do nothing to mitigate its projected harmful effects for millions of…

35,800 Tennessee Jobs Would Be Lost by 2026 (NASHVILLE, TN) – A new report from The Commonwealth Fund estimates that the Senate health care repeal bill would drastically lower employment and economic activity.  States that expanded Medicaid would experience the most severe economic losses. The report outlines that after a brief increase in economic activity…