Republicans are pushing again to tear up Obama’s health plan – but the man once regarded as a lightweight on late-night is fast becoming a powerful GOP foe
For a second night in a row, the late-night talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel dedicated his opening monologue to excoriating a US senator who represents one half of a renewed push to tear up the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Pauline Hanson wears black burqa in Senate chamber – politics live
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young suggests Barnaby Joyce unfit for office as government introduces bill to raise Medicare levy to fund NDIS. Follow the day live …
Brandis gets a standing ovation from Labor and the Greens.
Strangely, he doesn’t get the standing ovation from his own side.
George Brandis says:
No we will not be banning the burqa.
I am not going to ignore the stunt of arriving in this chamber...
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Bernie Sanders pushes universal health plan in wake of Republican repeal failure
- Sanders to tout ‘Medicare for All’ proposal before unveiling bill next month
- Vermont senator wants single-payer healthcare system for all Americans
Bernie Sanders has spent the first months of the new Congress defending Barack Obama’s health reforms as Republicans vowed to repeal them. But after the GOP’s seven-year drive to eliminate the Affordable Care Act collapsed on the Senate floor last week, Sanders is ready to introduce his own solution – government-run uni...
‘Wait for the show’: How John McCain torpedoed the Republican health plan
There were gasps when McCain joined Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins in opposing the bill, ending Republicans’ latest effort to kill the health law
Minutes after the clock struck midnight, John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, strode into the basement of the US capitol. He was on his way to the Senate floor to cast a consequential vote, as the Republican effort to repeal Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act hung in the balance.
“Have you decided how you’ll vote?” a report...
Healthcare activists celebrate as Republican repeal bill collapses
After John McCain’s dramatic intervention in the early hours of Friday, protesters outside the Capitol hugged, cheered and shouted: ‘Yes we did!’
Protesters hugged and clapped outside the US Capitol in the first hours of Friday as the latest GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act collapsed.
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McCain, Murkowski, Collins: Republican trio who defied party to vote no on health bill
The Republicans looked to have the votes to push through skinny repeal – but three senators upset the math to leave their party’s healthcare plans in tatters
When the Republicans held on to their Senate majority on the night Donald Trump was elected president, things looked truly bad for Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law. The general assumption was that, with control of both houses of Congress and the White House, the GOP would find a way to make good on seven years’ worth of campaign promises to end Obamacare, which expanded healthcare to nearly 20 million people.
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I’m a conservative – and I now see voting Republican is a waste of time | John Daniel Davidson
The Obamacare fiasco reveals that once they are in power, Republicans in Washington refuse to deliver on their promises
What would you conclude if you voted for a candidate or a party because of a promise to repeal or change a law that you strongly felt was harmful and unjust, but once in office the party refused to do it? You might conclude, rightly, that those politicians didn’t really work for you, and the party didn’t care what you thought.
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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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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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Trump battle over Obamacare reminds Scaramucci of Lincoln’s fight to abolish slavery
White House’s new communications chief said it took repeated attempts for Lincoln to get ‘what he wanted’ and adds he is certain of a US-UK trade deal
The new head of communications at the White House brought up Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to end slavery when asked about the difficulty Donald Trump has faced in trying to repeal Barack Obama’s healthcare legislation.
In his first UK television interview, Anthony Scaramucci said Trump would push through the abolition of the healthcare plan, despite opposition in Congress.
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