The Senate minority leader, speaking before Tuesday’s vote on whether to proceed to debate on legislation to repeal the ACA, said the GOP bill will hurt millions of Americans. He also appealed to Republicans to work with the Democrats to build a better bill
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Now Trump is relying on his fiercest opponent – John McCain | Mary Dejevsky
The Arizona senator has been a virtual one-man opposition to the president. But now his support is vital to attempts to repeal Obamacare • Mary Dejevsky is a writer and broadcasterJohn McCain was guaranteed a hero’s welcome in Washington when he returned for today’s crucial Senate vote. His disclosure, just days earlier, that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer, had prompted an outpouring of tributes to the veteran senator whose whole adult life, it sometimes seemed, had been spent ch...
John McCain to return for pivotal US Senate vote on Obamacare
Senior Republican senator, who has brain cancer, could play a crucial role in keeping efforts to overhaul healthcare afloat
John McCain is to return to the US Senate for the first time since he announced his brain cancer diagnosis for a make-or-break session in the Republican effort to repeal President Obama’s healthcare reforms.
Senators will be asked on Tuesday whether to begin debate on legislation to supplant the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare – landmark legi...
‘Female senators’ to blame for health bill struggle, says Republican congressman
Blake Farenthold of Texas appears to suggest that if those senators were male, he might challenge them to a duel ‘Aaron Burr-style’
A Republican lawmaker has blamed “female senators” for his party’s failure thus far to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s healthcare law, noting that if they were men he would challenge them to a duel.
Blake Farenthold, a congressman from Texas, singled out the women as the US Senate prepares to vote on Tuesday on whether to move forward with legislation that would dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Latest Republican health bill ‘a porkfest, a monstrosity’, Rand Paul says
- 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.
Related: Republicans face two unpalatable options on replacement healthcare bill
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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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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.
Related: Trump changes mind again, telling senators to get health bill 'on my desk'
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Donald Trump changes his mind on healthcare: ‘Get it done’ – video
US president Donald Trump has changed his mind on the future path for healthcare on Wednesday, telling senators to ‘get it done’ and adding that politicians ‘shouldn’t leave town until this is complete’. This marks a departure from Trump’s statements earlier in the week after the Republican party’s healthcare bill failed to gather enough support to pass and the president said he would instead ‘let Obamacare fail’
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Donald Trump changes his mind on healthcare: ‘Get it done’ – video
US president Donald Trump has changed his mind on the future path for healthcare on Wednesday, telling senators to ‘get it done’ and adding that politicians ‘shouldn’t leave town until this is complete’. This marks a departure from Trump’s statements earlier in the week after the Republican party’s healthcare bill failed to gather enough support to pass and the president said he would instead ‘let Obamacare fail’
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