Senate won’t vote on GOP health care bill

September 26, 2017September 27, 2017 News

Senate Republicans don't have the votes for their latest plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, but it's not over until leadership pulls the plug.
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Freedom Caucus chair opposes combining health care, tax reform

September 26, 2017 News

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said Tuesday that he opposes trying to combine tax reform and ObamaCare repeal in a fast-track bill next year.Some Republicans are pushing to include instructions...

Top Republican nixes idea of pairing ObamaCare repeal with tax reform

September 26, 2017 News

Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Tuesday said Congress should move onto tax reform and not try to pair it with a new plan to repeal ObamaCare.

Republicans Scrapping Health Care Vote — Again

September 26, 2017 News

Republican senators are conceding that their latest Obamacare repeal-and-replace push does not have the votes. It's yet another embarrassment to GOP leadership and President Trump.
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The Health 202: Obamacare repeal appears dead — again

September 26, 2017 News

Susan Collins was not swayed.

When Cassidy’s health clinic closed, its patients only saving grace was Obamacare

September 26, 2017 health, health care, News, obamacare, politics, trumpcare

Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic — a virtual health clinic in Louisiana co-founded by then-doctor and now Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) — closed in July 2015. It had been getting increasingly harder to get grants to fund the ‘clinic without walls,’ which connected uninsured people who needed care to providers; it was a free clinic and received no federal or state funds. After much deliberation, the clinic shut its doors.

“We felt better about closing th...

Republican push to repeal Obamacare collapses

September 26, 2017September 26, 2017 News

The party leadership said there would be no vote this week on their bill, after support ebbed away.

Senate GOP effort to unwind the Affordable Care Act faces critical test Tuesday

September 26, 2017 News

Sen. Susan Collins’s opposition, after the CBO estimated millions would lose coverage, doomed the bill.

Trump dishes on NFL, tax reform at private dinner with conservatives

September 26, 2017 News

President Trump expressed frustration with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for the GOP's failure to repeal and replace ObamaCare and vowed a "historic" corporate tax cut in a private meeting with conservatives...

Senator co-sponsors legislation for…

September 26, 2017 News

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, discusses the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, escalating tensions with North Korea and a new bill for undocumented youth.
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