The Senate minority leader, speaking before Tuesday’s vote on whether to proceed to debate on legislation to repeal the ACA, said the GOP bill will hurt millions of Americans. He also appealed to Republicans to work with the Democrats to build a better bill
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Now Trump is relying on his fiercest opponent – John McCain | Mary Dejevsky
The Arizona senator has been a virtual one-man opposition to the president. But now his support is vital to attempts to repeal Obamacare • Mary Dejevsky is a writer and broadcasterJohn McCain was guaranteed a hero’s welcome in Washington when he returned for today’s crucial Senate vote. His disclosure, just days earlier, that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer, had prompted an outpouring of tributes to the veteran senator whose whole adult life, it sometimes seemed, had been spent ch...
John McCain to return for pivotal US Senate vote on Obamacare
Senior Republican senator, who has brain cancer, could play a crucial role in keeping efforts to overhaul healthcare afloat
John McCain is to return to the US Senate for the first time since he announced his brain cancer diagnosis for a make-or-break session in the Republican effort to repeal President Obama’s healthcare reforms.
Senators will be asked on Tuesday whether to begin debate on legislation to supplant the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare – landmark legi...
Latest Republican health bill ‘a porkfest, a monstrosity’, Rand Paul says
- Kentucky senator says he will not vote for bill to proceed to debate this week
- Rightwinger Paul wants clean repeal of Affordable Care Act
Rand Paul, one of the conservative senators who has helped to hold up Republican healthcare reform, on Sunday derided the current Senate bill as a “monstrosity” and a “porkfest” and said he would not vote for it to proceed to debate this week.
Related: Republicans face two unpalatable options on replacement healthcare bill
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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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‘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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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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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
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After working hard to pass a bill that would strip millions of Americans of their health insurance, Congress is taking a well-earned recess for the next week. The idea is that politicians return to th...