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Andrew Harnik / AP The GOP Escalates Its Battle With the CBO
In an 11th hour push to repeal Obamacare, Republicans are leaning on a murky analysis that supports their plan.
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Mark Wilson / Getty The CBO Scored the Latest Draft of the Senate's Health-Care Bill
The budget agency found the Senate’s new version of its Obamacare-replacement plan would leave the same number of people uninsured as the original.
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Andrew Harnik / AP What the GOP Doesn't Understand About Its Own Voters
When it comes to health care and entitlements, the party’s policies don't always align with its coalition’s beliefs.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Tries for an Obamacare Repeal Revival
The president bought some more time for the Republican health-care effort, but he hasn’t changed any minds yet.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Paradox of Mitch McConnell's Repeal-Only Vote
The Senate majority leader is punishing and rewarding senators all at once—in ways that diminish everybody in his caucus other than himself.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Repeal, Replace, or Delay?
With the latest draft of his Obamacare replacement defeated by Republican Party holdouts, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is re-upping an old strategy. But it’s hard to see why senators would sign on.
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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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Tricia McInroy / AP What the 'Crack Baby' Panic Reveals About The Opioid Epidemic
Journalism in two different eras of drug waves illustrates how strongly race factors into empathy and policy.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Cruz Plan Would Splinter Health Insurance Markets
The Better Care Reconciliation Act already increases the risk of death spirals. Under new proposed additions, that risk becomes a near-certainty.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Why the Senate Health-Care Bill Might Never Get a Final Vote
Two Republican critics of Mitch McConnell’s proposal are vowing to block it from even coming to the floor. One more opponent, and it’s dead.
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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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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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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Senate GOP Health-Care Bill Inches Closer to Obamacare
Republicans scrambling for votes are now considering keeping a key tax on the wealthy to pay for expanded insurance coverage, as the legislation moves further away from repeal.
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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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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Planned Parenthood to Senate Republicans: 'Don't Take Our Stuff!'
Demonstrators marched on the Capitol to protest a provision in the chamber’s health-care bill that would defund the organization.
