Trump changes mind again, telling senators to get health bill ‘on my desk’

Within a day of telling Republicans to simply ‘let Obamacare fail’, president says they should cancel their August break to address healthcare reform

Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump advised Republicans to “let Obamacare fail”, he once again switched course and told senators to cancel their August recess and remain in Washington until they overhaul the healthcare law.

During an uncomfortable lunch on Wednesday, Trump warned Republican senators that “inaction” was not an o...

Healthcare plan flatlines again

• Senate plan ‘B’ fails… then plan ‘C’ fails… Trump plans to blame Democrats… ‘We’re not going to own it’

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After the collapse of a Republican health care reform bill in the Senate Monday night, leader Mitch McConnell declared a new plan, which then immediately collapsed. Barack Obama’s healthcare law lives on…

Last-ditch effort thwarted

‘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Donald Trump says he is ‘disappointed’ by his party’s failure to agree on legislation that would have repealed and replaced Barack Obama’s signature healthcare act.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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Who are the ‘dopes’ that can’t pass a replacement healthcare bill?

Donald Trump has labeled the Republican senators who can’t scrape together a replacement for the Affordable Care Act – here’s who he may have meant

On Monday night Donald Trump reportedly told Republican senators they would look like “dopes” if they couldn’t pass a healthcare bill to replace the Affordable Care Act.

This is one of those occasions where the president might actually be right.

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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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Senate healthcare bill stumbles after Republican party defections – video report

The US Senate’s healthcare overhaul appears to be in serious trouble as two more Republicans say they oppose a revised version of the bill. Republican senators Jerry Moran and Mike Lee both pledged on Monday night to vote against the healthcare bill - defections that may effectively kill the plan

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Senate will vote to repeal Obamacare without replacement, after new healthcare bill stumbles

Republican Mitch McConnell calls for vote on clean repeal, after senators Mike Lee and Jerry Moran come out against latest effort to replace Obamacare

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has announced that the Senate will vote on a clean repeal of Obamacare without any replacement, after two Republican senators broke ranks to torpedo the current Senate healthcare bill.

Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas came out on Monday night in opposition to McConnell’s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the Senate version of the controversial healthcare reform bill that passed the House in May.

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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.

Related: ‘They’re sentencing me to death’: Medicaid recipients on the Republican healthcare plan

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Republican health bill: latest draft would scrap contraception mandate

  • Proposal in Senate bill puts women’s health coverage in precarious position
  • Planned Parenthood: ‘Latest version of Trumpcare is even scarier for women’

The latest version of the US Senate’s bill to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act would eliminate the so-called birth control mandate, handing a long-sought victory to conservative activists who have spent years assailing the regulation.

The mandate is one of the most controversial benefits of the Obama administration’s enforcement of the ACA.

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