- Kentucky senator says he will not vote for bill to proceed to debate this week
- Rightwinger Paul wants clean repeal of Affordable Care Act
Rand Paul, one of the conservative senators who has helped to hold up Republican healthcare reform, on Sunday derided the current Senate bill as a “monstrosity” and a “porkfest” and said he would not vote for it to proceed to debate this week.
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Republicans face two unpalatable options on replacement healthcare bill
After a six-month debate and seven years of promising they would repeal the Affordable Care Act, Republicans don’t have many good options left to pass a bill
Mitch McConnell likes to say that finding 50 Republican votes to pass healthcare reform is like solving a Rubik’s cube. As he pushes his party toward a vote expected early next week, the Senate majority leader is still furiously twisting the puzzle.
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Key Trumpcare provisions found to violate Senate rules, throwing Republicans’ plan in jeopardy
If the bill isn’t fixed, controversial parts will require 60 votes to pass.CREDIT: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
According to a new determination by the Senate parliamentarian, some of the most controversial parts of Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace Obamacare violate Senate rules and will thus require 60 votes to pass instead of 51.
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Republicans still can’t craft healthcare plan that won’t drop coverage for tens of millions
Latest effort on brink of collapse for lack of support after CBO predicts repeal-and-replace plan would see 22 million lose insurance but cut deficit by $420bn
The latest effort by Senate Republicans to revive their plan to repeal Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) was teetering on the brink of collapse again as a new prediction said it would mean 22 million people losing their health insurance by 2026.
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Repeal-only healthcare bill would cost 32m people coverage, CBO says
Congressional Budget Office analysis comes as Donald Trump urges Republicans to pass a new Obamacare replacement bill
A bill that would repeal major pieces of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without replacing it would increase the number of people without insurance by 32 million people over the next decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in an analysis on Wednesday.
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‘Let Obamacare fail’: Donald Trump lays out healthcare plan – video
Donald Trump says he is ‘disappointed’ by his party’s failure to agree on legislation that would have repealed and replaced Barack Obama’s signature healthcare act. Speaking to reporters after support for his bill fell apart, the US president said his administration was ‘in the position where we’ll let Obamacare fail’
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Trump pivots from Obamacare repeal to ordering Republicans to ‘let it fail’
Frustrated president still lacks major legislative achievements six months into tenure as Republican defections in Senate doom replacement healthcare bill
Donald Trump said Republicans should “let Obamacare fail”, after the dramatic collapse of efforts to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Repeal now, replace later? GOP’s last-ditch healthcare effort faces slim odds
Mitch McConnell says he will pursue a vote on just a repeal of Obamacare after Republicans failed to coalesce around a bill of their own. It’s a course that could crack the deep divisions already exposed by the healthcare debate
The collapse of the Senate Republican healthcare bill on Monday night left Mitch McConnell pursuing a last-ditch change of tactics: to repeal Barack Obama’s healthcare law now, then replace it later. There is no guarantee he will succeed.
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‘Kill the bill’: activists use latest GOP healthcare delay to amp up pressure
Moderate holdouts remain amid lingering concerns over impact on Medicaid as insurance providers call amendment crafted by Ted Cruz ‘simply unworkable’
Activists opposed to the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) plan to make the most of a delay caused by the absence of John McCain as he recovers from surgery.
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