Millennial Policy Center Reacts to Latest Obamacare Misfortune, Renews Call for ‘Piecemeal Repeal’

President and CEO Jimmy Sengenberger expresses concern over future of life under Obamacare, renews call for ‘Piecemeal Repeal’ Denver, Colo. - Jimmy Sengenberger, 26, President and CEO of the Millennial Policy Center, a Denver, Colorado-based think tank program, released the following statement on the current failure of congressional Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare: “The inability of Senate Republicans to …

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Katebi: The Senate healthcare bill is the solution we’ve been waiting for

Writing in The Washington Examiner, Millennial Policy Center Fellow Charlie Katebi explores the improvements contained in the revised version of the Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act: “When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., initially unveiled the Senate’s healthcare reform bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, conservatives inside and outside of Congress criticized the bill for maintaining Obamacare’s regulations that increase …

Darrow: The GOP’s Health-Care Messaging Needs Serious Work

Writing in The National Review, Millennial Policy Center Fellow Juliana Darrow discusses the need for advocates of healthcare reform - specifically Republicans - to better message their case: “The current health-care debate is often distilled into a series of binary choices for public consumption: good or bad, healthy or sick, help for the rich or help for the poor. As …

Darrow: Obamacare Failure is on the Democrats

Writing in The National Review, Millennial Policy Center Fellow Juliana Darrow discusses the need for reform of our nation’s healthcare system and Republicans’ efforts to accomplish it: “Senate Republicans are planning to vote on their version of the long-awaited health-care replacement bill as early as next week; this is the latest development in the contentious process of dismantling the Affordable …

Katebi: High Risk Pools Serve Patients Better Than Mandates

Writing in Forbes, Millennial Policy Center Fellow Charlie Katebi explores the benefits of high-risk pools in helping to insure individuals with pre-existing conditions: “As Congress continues to advance the American Health Care Act, Democrats and the medical establishment have argued that the Republican health care bill will deny sick and vulnerable patients access to quality health care. But the reality …

Katebi: Medicaid is costly for taxpayers, downright disastrous for patients — Trump’s budget would change that

Writing in The Washington Examiner, Millennial Policy Center Fellow Charlie Katebi discusses the promising potential of President Trump’s budget proposal when it comes to Medicaid reform: “On Tuesday, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney unveiled President Trump’s latest budget proposal. While it includes cuts across a variety of discretionary programs, it also reforms one of the largest healthcare entitlements: Medicaid. The budget, …

Darrow: What the AHCA Really Says about Preexisting Conditions

Writing in The National Review, Millennial Policy Center Fellow Juliana Darrow explores fact and fiction about how pre-existing conditions are treated in the American Health Care Act: “As demonstrated by the recent outrage surrounding the passage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in the House of Representatives, there is widespread misinformation about what is happening in Washington, D.C., when …

Millennial Policy Center Statement on Failure of AHCA, #PiecemealRepeal

President and CEO Jimmy Sengenberger expresses concern over future of life under Obamacare, need for #PiecemealRepeal Denver, Colo. - Jimmy Sengenberger, 26, President and CEO of the Millennial Policy Center, released the following statement: “The decision by Republican leaders in Congress to pull the American Health Care Act is a tremendous setback for the essential effort to repeal and replace …