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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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.
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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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Republicans’ new revised healthcare bill fails to sway many key Senators
The new bill to replace Obama’s signature healthcare law attempts to placate moderate and conservative critics, but still a protracted battle may be ahead
Senate Republicans unveiled a revised healthcare plan on Thursday, seeking to bridge an intra-party divide that has so far thwarted efforts to make good on a seven-year pledge to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law.
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The Republican healthcare plan has a formidable foe: economics | Joe McLean
The Republicans can’t craft a workable plan on healthcare because they ignore at least four immutable economic principles
Having sworn for six years to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans, unable to pass a plan before their summer recess, recently got their first taste of how the folks at home feel about it. While many ducked those messy town-hall meetings, they couldn’t avoid hearing the angry voices during Fourth of July parades, picnics and fireworks. ...
Chuck Schumer condemns Republican healthcare bill as ‘heartless’ – video
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says the Republican healthcare bill to overhaul Obamacare is a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ and ‘heartless’. Mitch McConnell and his lieutenants in the GOP worked in secret for weeks on the bill, and McConnell said debate on it would start next week. On Thursday, Schumer said there was not enough time to properly review the bill
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- Senate Republicans release health bill that will affect coverage for millions