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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters After Setbacks, Mitch McConnell Calls for Full Obamacare Repeal Vote
The Senate majority leader conceded late Monday that “the effort to repeal and immediately replace” the Affordable Care Act “will not be successful.” He’s now pivoting to a repeal-and-delay plan.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Disturbing Process Behind Trumpcare
The development of the Republican health-care bill offers a troubling picture of our legislative system.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What's Inside Mitch McConnell's Latest Health-Care Proposal
The revised Senate bill would keep more of Obamacare’s taxes while allowing insurers to wiggle out of its regulations. Will Republicans go for it?
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images How Medicaid Cuts Could Exacerbate the Opioid Epidemic
Some of the areas hit hardest by the public-health crisis are the most dependent on federal coverage. They also happen to be in Trump country.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters There's Nothing Bipartisan About Medicaid Cuts
Republicans looking to Bill Clinton to defend cuts to the health-care program for low-income Americans are distorting history.
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Alex Brandon / AP How to Know If the Republican Health-Care Bill Is Dead
When at least three GOP senators demand bipartisan talks instead of a one-party approach, Mitch McConnell’s proposal will collapse for good. Until then, it still has a chance.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters Can Liberal Activists Keep Attention on the Republican Health-Care Bill?
Protests and sit-ins at lawmakers’ offices may not be enough to compete with a crowded news cycle.
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Elaina Natario / Katie Martin / The Atlantic How to Beat Asthma
The common lung disease debilitates millions of Americans and costs the country billions of dollars, but some very new—and very old—methods are emerging in fighting it.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Tries to Revive an Obamacare Repeal Gambit He Once Vetoed
With the Senate bill in doubt, the president suggests scrapping the law now and replacing it later. It won’t work, and it’s less a new strategy than an admission of defeat.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP This One Senate Staffer Could Sink the GOP's Health-Care Plan
The parliamentarian may pose a threat to the deals Mitch McConnell is making. That's because she can reject provisions she deems unsuitable under Senate rules.
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Elaina Natario / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Fixing the 5 Percent
“Super-users” with complex medical needs make up a small fraction of U.S. patients, but they account for half of the nation’s overall health-care spending. Now, innovative efforts are providing better care at lower costs.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What the Republican Health-Care Holdouts Want
A look at the varied and even contradictory changes that GOP senators are seeking in exchange for their votes
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Democrats Don't Think Trumpcare Is Dead
There could still be a vote soon on Senate GOP legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, Democrats warned on Tuesday.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Senate Republicans Put Off Health-Care Vote
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bowed to mounting opposition and abandoned a vote planned for this week on legislation to overhaul Obamacare.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Senate's Health-Care Bill Is Still Unaffordable for Poor People
The Congressional Budget Office finds that while the upper chamber’s plan is more generous and stable than the AHCA, it leaves about as many low-income people without coverage.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A New Penalty for the Uninsured in the GOP Health-Care Bill
Republicans would lock people out of coverage for six months if they go without insurance under a provision added to the Senate proposal on Monday.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Perilous Path Ahead for the Senate Health-Care Bill
The long-awaited proposal begins with few friends and many critics—on the right, the center, and the left. But the chilly reception doesn’t mean the legislation is doomed.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What's in the Senate Republican Health-Care Bill
Like the House version, Mitch McConnell’s proposal would slash taxes, cut Medicaid, and eliminate Obamacare’s insurance mandates for individuals and employers.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Congress Heads for a Showdown on Obamacare
The clock, as they say, is ticking. Fast.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / Katie Martin … 'We're Amending Obamacare. We're Not Killing It'
The Senate bill coming out Thursday would do many things to health care in the U.S., but it won’t get rid of the Affordable Care Act, and Mitch McConnell won’t claim that it does.
