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.
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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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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.
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Healthcare plan flatlines again
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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…
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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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