Healthcare activists celebrate as Republican repeal bill collapses

July 28, 2017 Activism, News, Republicans, US Congress, US healthcare, US news, US politics, US Senate, World news

After John McCain’s dramatic intervention in the early hours of Friday, protesters outside the Capitol hugged, cheered and shouted: ‘Yes we did!’
Protesters hugged and clapped outside the US Capitol in the first hours of Friday as the latest GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act collapsed.
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This week in OnPolitics: Week of Wonder

July 28, 2017 News

Read all about Obamacare and Trump's transgender troop ban

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Trump on healthcare: ‘It’s going to be fine’

July 28, 2017 News

President Trump on Friday sought to reassure his supporters after the stunning failure of the Senate's effort to repeal ObamaCare....

McCain, once belittled by Trump, hands him big defeat in healthcare vote

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 News, topNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the end, it was a simple hand gesture - Senator John McCain pointing his right index finger in a downward motion to register a no vote - that ruined his party's seven-year effort to repeal Obamacare.
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Senate Republicans failed to pass Obamacare repeal. Now what?

July 28, 2017 News

The GOP’s seven-year crusade to repeal and replace Obamacare disintegrated in the wee hours of Friday morning. What happens now?

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McCain, Murkowski, Collins: Republican trio who defied party to vote no on health bill

July 28, 2017 John McCain, News, Republicans, US Congress, US healthcare, US news, US politics, US Senate, World news

The Republicans looked to have the votes to push through skinny repeal – but three senators upset the math to leave their party’s healthcare plans in tatters
When the Republicans held on to their Senate majority on the night Donald Trump was elected president, things looked truly bad for Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law. The general assumption was that, with control of both houses of Congress and the White House, the GOP would find a way to make good on seven years’ worth of campaign promises to end Obamacare, which expanded healthcare to nearly 20 million people.
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WATCH: Protestors in DC celebrate death of GOP health bill

July 28, 2017 News, politics

Protesters at the U.S. Capitol celebrate the Senate voting against "skinny" Obamacare repeal measure.

Republicans ‘frustrated’ after healthcare fiasco

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House Speaker Paul Ryan is "disappointed" by the Senate's third failed attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Obama spokesman after Senate health care vote: There's more work to do on Obamacare

July 28, 2017 News

The spokesman for former president Barack Obama noted that there's still more to be done that will depend on bipartisanship in Congress.

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Dem Senate candidate slams Heller over healthcare vote

July 28, 2017 News

Rep. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), who is challenging Sen. Dean Heller for his Senate seat, ripped the Nevada Republican on Friday after he voted in favor of a "skinny" ObamaCare repeal bill that ultimately failed.Heller w...