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CBO: Senate Health Bill Reduces Premiums, Deficit, Middle Class Taxes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement regarding the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the Senate Republican health plan: "Americans need relief from the failed Obamacare law. The Senate will soon take action on a bill that the Congressional Budget Office just confirmed will reduce the growth in premiums under Obamacare, reduce taxes on the middle class, and reduce the deficit. The American people need better care now, an… Continue Reading
06.25.17
Senators Discuss Better Care
Senate Discussion Draft Will 'Free The States And Free The Marketplace To Discover Ever-Better Ways To Deliver Services' SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH McCONNELL: "We've long called for a better way forward…. These shared policy objectives and the solutions to help achieve them are what make up the health care discussion draft." (Sen. McConnell, Floor Remarks, 6/22/2017) It helps stabilize collapsing insurance markets that have left millions of Americans with no options. It frees the A… Continue Reading
03.13.17
CBO: American Health Care Act Will Lower Premiums, Reduce Deficit
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement regarding the American Health Care Act's Congressional Budget Office score: "Obamacare is a failed law that is hurting the middle class. Maintaining the current Obamacare status quo is not an option. That is why voters wanted change this election and tasked Republicans in Congress and President Trump to repeal and replace this failed law. "The takeaway from today's announcement is clear: the… Continue Reading
02.15.17
McConnell Praises Administration Action to Help Protect Americans from Consequences of Obamacare
WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement in support of the administrative action taken by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Rep. Tom Price: "Obamacare is a disaster. It has failed our nation and our constituents while forcing insurers to leave markets left and right. That's why I commend Secretary Price and the Trump Administration for taking swift action to help stabilize the chaos left behind from Obamacare's broken prom… Continue Reading
01.22.17
Leader McConnell on ‘Fox News Sunday’
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning. The following are excerpts from his interview: McConnell on Repealing and Replacing Obamacare "We are working in connection with the administration to have an orderly process of repealing Obamacare and replacing it. So let me talk a minute about the status quo. What did Bill Clinton say about Obamacare last year? He said 'it's the craziest thing you've ever seen.' Eight out of 10 Ame… Continue Reading
01.12.17
Senate Takes Important Step Toward Obamacare Repeal
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement regarding the Senate's passage of the Obamacare repeal resolution: "The Senate just took an important step toward repealing and replacing Obamacare by passing the resolution that provides the legislative tools necessary to actually repeal this failed law while we move ahead with smarter health care policies. "The American people have called on Congress to act and finally bring relief from O… Continue Reading
01.09.17
McConnell Op-Ed: ObamaCare failed Americans. Now it's time for relief
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell published the following op-ed on FoxNews.com highlighting the failures of Obamacare: "By nearly any measure, ObamaCare has failed: It didn't lower costs, it didn't increase choice, middle-class families continue to lose health plans they were promised they could keep, and Americans continue to call for ObamaCare's repeal. "They spoke loudly again this November, and about 8 out of 10 favor changing ObamaCare significantly or replaci… Continue Reading
01.08.17
McConnell on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’
WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS' 'Face the Nation this morning. The following are excerpts from his interview and the full interview can be viewed here: On Repealing and Replacing Obamacare "You have to both repeal and replace, and I think there ought not to be a great gap between the first step and the second. Bill Clinton said 'it is the craziest thing he has ever seen' - this is Bill Clinton, on Obamacare last year. Eight out of ten Americans ei… Continue Reading
08.19.16
McConnell Asks HHS to Focus on Zika, not Another Failed Obamacare Campaign
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In light of recent reports that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is considering spending additional funds for a public relations campaign to prop up the badly failing Obamacare exchanges, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell asking for those valuable resources to instead be used to combat the Zika virus in the United States. "Nearly every day brings another set of stories about the dysfunction of the Obamacare e… Continue Reading
01.12.16
McConnell Comments on President’s Final State of The Union Address
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell commented following President Obama's State of the Union Address and spoke to the importance of hosting a Kentucky coal miner as his guest tonight: SOTU RESPONSE: "Well he did the best job he could to try to convince Americans that somehow things are getting better in the United States and around the world. With regard to his foreign policy, Jimmy Carter summed it up pretty well earlier this summer when he said that he couldn't th… Continue Reading
10.09.15
Kentucky Co-Op Collapse Another Consequence of Obamacare’s Failures
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following comments today regarding the announcement that the Kentucky Health Cooperative, a nonprofit health insurer created in Obamacare with federal taxpayer funds and that provided health insurance to individuals on Kentucky's Obamacare exchange (kynect), has ceased operations: "Barely a week goes by that we don't see another harmful consequence of this poorly conceived, badly executed law. Despite repeated Obama adminis… Continue Reading
07.09.15
McConnell on CMS Administrator Nominee
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement regarding the nomination of Andy Slavitt as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator: "The head of the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid should be focused on what the American people expect him to do: administer these important programs, not allow his attention to be diverted instead to the implementation of some gigantic, unworkable health care law that hurts hardw… Continue Reading
07.03.15
McConnell Statement on Humana
U.S. Senate Majority Leader notes that the sale "is the inevitable result of Obamacare's push toward consolidation as doctors, hospitals, and insurers merge in response to an ever-growing government." Louisville, Ky - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement today regarding Aetna's announced purchase of Louisville-based Humana. The sale is the type of consolidation McConnell predicted five years ago during the debate on Obamacare: "For more than 30 years, Huma… Continue Reading
01.16.15
McConnell on the Resignation of Marilyn Tavenner
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement regarding the resignation of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner: "The role of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator is supposed to be about overseeing these important programs, not implementing a gigantic, unworkable law that hurts hardworking Americans. While we appreciate her service, no one could have successfully managed a law as… Continue Reading
