President Barack Obama

After the initial failure of House Republicans to repeal and replace Former President Barack Obama signature healthcare bill, they have decided to try to do it again, and this time has succeeded to repeal Obamacare, and will be replacing it with Trumpcare.

                     

Obamacare was replaced with a final tally of 217-213, a tally that shows a great disagreement between House Republicans. Though the bill is yet to become law, but this is a victory for House Republicans and also a victory for the Donald Trump administration who in his campaign had promised to repeal and replace the Affordable care act program.

Speaking after the vote, House speaker, Paul Ryan said;

This bill delivers on the promises that we have made to the American people,A lot of us have been waiting seven years to cast this vote … (and) to rescue people from this collapsing law.

House Republicans said that the new bill would increase competition between insurance companies, lower costs and also give States and individuals their health care choice.

According to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California;

Trumpcare eviscerates essential health benefits," such as maternity care and prescription drug coverage,and guts protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

As the vote closed on Obamacare, some Democrats chanted, "Na na na na, hey hey, hey, goodbye"

 

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Republicans have voted early Thursday to start the repealing of one of the President Obama signature, Obamacare. The repealing of the Affordable care act by Republicans senators has been one of the goals, which aligns with the campaign rhetoric of president-elect Donald J. Trump.

The senators voted 51-48 to approve a budget resolution that Republicans will use to speed through repealing the ACA.

                   

                                          The senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell

The senator believes that the 2010 health care law is broken and should be immediately replaced by something else, though they are yet to come up with such plan. The senators cite the sky rocketing premium prices, high deductibles and fewer health care choice as insurance company seems to be pulling out of the program.

The senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell why speaking on the replacing and replacing of the health care law said;

When Obamacare’s supporters forced their partisan law on our country, they promised an easy-to-use system; one that would lower premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs; one that would foster choice and allow families to keep the plans and doctors they liked, but it didn’t take long for the American people to discover the truth about Obamacare. Too many have been personally hurt by this law. Too many feel they’re worse off than they were before Obamacare.

Senator Patty Murray of Washington and the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee while speaking on the Republicans act to repeal the law says;

Ripping apart our health care system — with no plan to replace it — will create chaos.

If Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act, it’s women, kids, seniors, patients with serious illnesses, and people with disabilities who will bear the burden.

Premiums will skyrocket,Out-of-pocket prescription drug costs will rise. And overall health care costs will increase. It’s a perfect storm to make America sick again — and absolutely the wrong direction for families and for our economy.

The president-elect and house republicans are yet to offer a program that will be used to replace Obamacare. 

Speaker of the house, Paul Ryan, also said;

It is our goal to bring it all together concurrently. We’re going to use every tool at our disposal through legislation, through regulation, to bring replace concurrent along with repeal, so that we can save people from this mess.

In his news conference on Wednesday, Donald Trump said that he would offer a detailed plan on replacement plan when his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary,Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia is confirmed by the senate.

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It is hard to deny the fact that President Barack Obama is the king of subliminal messages, especially when it comes to replying Donald Trump, and once again he did it again while at Jimmy Kimmel live "mean tweet" session.

The Mean tweet lets celebrities reads the tweets that are mean from people that don't like them or love what they do, and President Obama, though had done this last year, but he was again invited for another mean tweet session, and this type, Donald Trump gets it as always. 

               

Donald Trump is known for his criticism on the Obama government, and he does it via tweets and his rallies. In one of this tweets, Trump tweeted;

         

And President Obama responded with;

         "Well @realDonaldTrump, at least I will go down as a president"

After his response, President Obama drops the mic on Trump as a champ Cool

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The US president, Barack Obama has officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic party presidential nominee. The endorsement was posted on Twitter after a meeting with the Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders by the president.

                   

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be set to hit the campaign trail together to defeat Republican party presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, in the November election.

Speaking in the video shared by Clinton camp, President Obama said;

I want those of you who’ve been with me from the beginning of this incredible journey to be the first to know that ‘I’m with Her.’ I am fired up and cannot wait to get out there and campaign for Hillary.

Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders may have been rivals during this primary, but they’re both patriots who love this country and they share a vision for the America that we all believe in.

Watch the video here:

         

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Former US president Jimmy Carter has said that a cancer that was discovered earlier this year on his liver, have spread to his brain. While speaking at a news conference, the Jimmy Carter,90 -year-old said; I'm perfectly at ease with whatever comes.

According to Carter, doctors found "four spots of melanoma on my brain -- small spots" after first discovering cancer in August 3 in an operation to remove cancer. But during the surgery, the doctors suspected that the cancer is originated in another part of his body, and later discovered the "two millimetres" size of melanoma  in his brain.

                           

He said;

At first, I felt that it was confined to my liver and the operation had completely removed it, so I was quite relieved, And then that same afternoon, we had an M.R.I. of my head and neck, and it showed up that it was already in four places in my brain. So I would say that night and the next day, until I came back up to Emory, I just thought I had a few weeks left.

But I was surprisingly at ease, I’ve had a wonderful life, I’ve had thousands of friends, and I’ve had an exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence.

Carter then said in the conference that he will undergo a single course of radiation treatment, though more maybe be necessary, and also undergo four treatments with an immune system boosting drug, Keytruda, which will be administered all 3-weeks interval.

The average length of melanoma survival is 11 months, if surgery and radiation do not successfully remove the tumor. But the grandson of Jimmy Carter, Jason Carter, said that he hoped the treatment would allow the former president to fish more and watch his great-grandsons’ baseball games.

Mr Carter had gone to Guyana to monitor elections in May, where he felt not well, and returned early to Atlanta. Doctors at Emory University performed a full physical examination on him and noticed a mass on his liver.

At the time, Mr Carter delayed surgery to complete a tour promoting his book, “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”, a book where he talked about his boyhood on depression-era, his time as a naval officer and also the rise in his politics career.

The former president will be treated at the  Winship Cancer Institute, a 2 miles from the Carter centre. Carter Centre and the institute are both affiliated with the Emory University.

Other living US presidents have poured out well wishes for the former president ;

                     

                 

The former secretary, Hillary Rodham Clinton and current Secretary of State John F. Kerry have also called to wish him well.

"It's the first time they've called me in a long time," Carter joked.

Whitehouse National security advisor, Susan Rice has announced via her twitter handle that President Barack Obama will meet with the newly elected President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari.

              

The meeting is said to promote and deepened the partnership with the new government. 

See the tweet :

      

President Buhari was at the meeting with the world leaders in Germany, where the leaders promised to help Nigerians fight the Boko Haram sect who had been disturbing the peace of the Northern Eastern part of the country for more than 6 years.

 

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