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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Trump reverses message on healthcare … again
• President tells Republicans to go back to the drawing board … after describing plan to ‘let Obamacare fail’
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Donald Trump hosted Republicans for an awkward lunch in which the president told senators to try yet again to pass a healthcare bill. “For seven years, you promised the American people that you would repeal Obamacare,” Trump said.
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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
• Senate plan ‘B’ fails… then plan ‘C’ fails… Trump plans to blame Democrats… ‘We’re not going to own it’
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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…
Last-ditch effort thwarted
Who are the ‘dopes’ that can’t pass a replacement healthcare bill?
Donald Trump has labeled the Republican senators who can’t scrape together a replacement for the Affordable Care Act – here’s who he may have meant
On Monday night Donald Trump reportedly told Republican senators they would look like “dopes” if they couldn’t pass a healthcare bill to replace the Affordable Care Act.
This is one of those occasions where the president might actually be right.
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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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‘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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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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