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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]