Analysis: After the failure of the Republicans’ ‘skinny repeal’ bill, the Affordable Care Act faces hurdles – but the president’s assessment may be overblown
In a stunning blow to Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, Republican senators were overnight unable to pass a bill to undo major parts of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, the health reform law considered Obama’s signature achievement.
Their efforts failed because three senators, including...
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John McCain sinks ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare health act
Arizona senator, whose war record Trump mocked, deals major blow to president’s agenda in dramatic late-night vote
Arizona senator John McCain torpedoed the Obamacare repeal bill – and with it Donald Trump’s legislative agenda – in a night of high drama on Capitol Hill.
McCain’s vote against the bill in the early hours of Friday morning delivered a major setback for Republicans who have spent seven years vowing to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Bernie Sanders: Trump is right, Australia’s healthcare system is better than ours – video
Donald Trump told the Australian prime minister in May, ‘You have better healthcare than we do’. As the US Senate votes on repealing the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, Bernie Sanders has taken to the Senate floor to agree with Trump: ‘He’s not right very often, but on this issue he is.’ Australia has a universal healthcare system that costs less than half what the US spends per capita on healthcare and delivers much better outcomes
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Republicans back ‘skinny repeal’ after guarantee it will not become law
Sceptical senators Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson agree to vote for repeal on condition that it will trigger a congressional conference committee
Senate Republican leaders have unveiled their so-called “skinny repeal” bill – denounced by conservatives as a “fraud” and a “disaster” – in an eleventh-hour push to pass a pared-down repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Related: Republican quartet will only vote for skinny repeal if assured it won't become law – live
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US Senate rejects bill to repeal Obamacare in huge blow for Trump – live
- Lindsey Graham calls skinny repeal a ‘terrible policy, a horrible policy’
- Republican healthcare debate: what is a ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare?
- Trump’s healthcare battle reminds Scaramucci of Lincoln fighting slavery
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Scaramucci likens Trump’s healthcare fight to Lincoln’s slavery battle – video
Donald Trump’s new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, speaks to BBC Newsnight about the administration’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, drawing parallels with Abraham Lincoln’s fight to abolish slavery. Scaramucci also points out that it took Barack Obama 22 months to pass his healthcare legislation
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US healthcare debate: what is a ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare?
The latest Republican plan, whose details remain unclear, would eliminate the ACA’s individual mandate, employee mandate and ‘Cadillac tax’
It might sound like another trendy low-calorie caffeine drink promising all of the boost with none of the regrets.
But the skinny repeal is the fad sweeping the Senate Republican caucus as senators desperately try to find a way to advance their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Senate rejects bill to repeal large parts of Obamacare without replacement
- Seven Republicans join with Democrats to oppose proposal
- Failure suggests GOP’s promise to repeal ACA wholesale will be hugely difficult
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have repealed major pieces of Barack Obama’s health reforms without a replacement, something Republicans have promised to do for seven years.
Seven Republican senators joined with Democrats to reject the bill, in a sign that the party’s promise to repeal the Affordable Care ...
Trump to rally: GOP senators who oppose health bill ‘will have a lot of problems’
- Trump speaks for an hour at campaign-style rally in Youngstown, Ohio
- President boasts of accomplishments and rails against ‘fake news’
Donald Trump warned that Republican senators who don’t support legislation repealing and replacing Obamacare “will have a lot of problems”.
Speaking for an hour at a campaign-style rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump took a victory lap after the Senate voted to begin debate on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “We are now one step closer to liberating our citizens from this Obamacare nightmare,” he said.
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John McCain had the chance to do the right thing on healthcare. He failed | Lucia Graves
There are many reasons to respect the Arizona senator, but his remarkable stoicism and service can’t excuse his yes vote in the Senate
John McCain often gets cast as a truth-teller to Donald Trump, but his voting record says otherwise. And nowhere was that more clear than on Tuesday when, despite his own ill health, when it came to the decision of whether to take other people’s healthcare away, he cast a decisive vote in the wrong direction.
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