A manufactured crisis.From left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), and Sen. John Thune (R-SD), leave the White House on Wednesday following a luncheon with President Donald Trump and other GOP leadership. CREDIT: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Despite the failure of the latest Trumpcare bill on Monday, Senate Republican leadership is moving forward with pl...
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Senate GOP’s ‘new’ health bill would still un-insure 22 million people
A new Congressional Budget Score confirms the latest version of the bill is pretty much like the old one.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks into the Senate Chamber at the Capitol, Thursday, July 20, 2017 CREDIT: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
The Senate GOP’s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) is dead — and yet it lives. On Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office scored a revised but sti...
On Washington: Republicans’ Push to Overturn Health Law Is Back From the Dead
The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has taken extraordinary measures to pump oxygen back into the G.O.P.’s badly fading effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Trumpcare: How Republicans Have Tried to Sell It
Since his campaign, President Trump and the Republican Party have pushed hard for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
The 3 Republican Women Who Doomed a Senate Repeal of the Health Law
Senators Shelley Moore Capito, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins shared objections to Medicaid cuts, but also had concerns specific to their states.
Trump on G.O.P.’s Failed Health Care Bill
The president spoke today about the collapse of the Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Capital Journal Daybreak: GOP’s Competing Wings Slow Health Overhaul
Good morning. Here’s the latest news on the GOP’s efforts to replace Obamacare and more top stories from Washington. Click here to get the Capital Journal Daybreak newsletter delivered to your inbox. GOP Abandons Senate Health Bill, Plans Repeal Vote: GOP leaders gave up their effort to dismantle and simultaneously replace much of the Affordable Care Act […]
New Analysis: Old Truth Trips Up G.O.P. on Health Law: A Benefit Is Hard to Retract
As millions of Americans have become insured under what is known as Obamacare, the health law has become more popular, even with Republican governors.
Two Republicans defect, deliver death blow to Senate health care bill
Republicans could lose just one more vote or the bill wouldn’t go to the floor.The second version of the Senate Republican health care bill is dead for now.
Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) announced simultaneously on Monday evening that they would not support the motion to proceed, ultimately killing this version of the Senate’s bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Car...
