H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017  —  CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would reduce federal deficits by $321 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to current law.

Where the Senate Health Care Bill Fails  —  Speaking at a rally for his wife's presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.”  As he put it, “The people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”

CBO score sure to add to McConnell's headaches  —  The budget office is poised to tell Senate Republicans their health bill will leave millions more uninsured than Obamacare.  —  The CBO is poised to tell Senate Republicans this week that their health plan will leave millions more uninsured …

Senate adds penalty for going uninsured to healthcare bill  —  Senate Republicans on Monday released a revised version of their healthcare reform bill that adds a provision requiring consumers with a break in coverage to wait six months before buying insurance.

This chart shows the stunning trade-off at the heart of the GOP health plan  —  The Republican repeal bills in the House and Senate both include multi-billion-dollar tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and deep health benefit cuts for the poorest Americans.  —  Sign up for VoxCare

Trump travel ban partly reinstated; fall court arguments set  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.

Statement from President Donald J. Trump  —  Today's unanimous Supreme Court decision is a clear victory for our national security.  It allows the travel suspension for the six terror-prone countries and the refugee suspension to become largely effective.  —  As President, I cannot allow people …

Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike May Have Gone Too Far  —  As cities across the country pushed their minimum wages to untested heights in recent years, some economists began to ask: How high is too high?  —  Seattle, with its highest-in-the-country minimum wage, may have hit that limit.