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Jose Luis Magana / AP How Democrats Gave the GOP One More Chance to Repeal Obamacare
Their debt-ceiling deal with President Trump cleared up a busy congressional calendar and may have removed a big hurdle for Republicans facing a September 30 deadline.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Real Losers of the Graham-Cassidy Health-Care Bill
The bill would take funding from governments facing public-health crises to provide a short-term boon to a smaller number of states that have refused to expand Medicaid.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Two Republicans Who Will Likely Determine Obamacare's Fate
A last-minute repeal vote could come down to Senators John McCain and Lisa Murkowski, who opposed the GOP’s most recent proposal in July and are facing competing pressures from their state’s governors.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Groundhog Day for Obamacare Repeal
The GOP is still missing the crucial 50th Senate vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. But a looming deadline is providing new momentum, and the legislation has advanced from no-shot to long-shot.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Bill Still Covers Fewer People
The new Affordable Care Act replacement currently making rounds in the Senate looks different than previous efforts, but the fundamentals are still the same: fewer funds, fewer rules, and fewer people covered.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Missing Pieces of Medicare For All
The new plan from Senator Bernie Sanders needs a tax policy not just to fund it, but to dictate how it works.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Republican Senators Plead for One Last Chance to Repeal Obamacare
Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy introduced a bill to convert the law into a block grant for states. But the GOP has moved on, and their plan might never get a vote.
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Reuters Staff / Reuters Hurricane Harvey’s Public-Health Nightmare
Physicians and other professionals are scrambling to contain a multitude of epidemics that might arise after the flood.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Senate Tests a New Approach on Obamacare: Bipartisanship
Health-care hearings next month will mark the first effort at collaboration between the two parties, even as the Republican repeal push sees one last gasp.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Images How Mental-Health Training for Police Can Save Lives—and Taxpayer Dollars
But only if officials at all levels of government are willing to invest in it up front.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Informally Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency
Once the proper paperwork is drawn up, the president’s unexpected and off-the-cuff announcement will free up disaster funding for cities and states dealing with the epidemic.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Real Reason Trump’s Obamacare Repeal Push Failed
Trump’s failure in health care wasn’t tactical. It was that he refused to acknowledge or redress the fundamental issues.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Can Republicans Stop Trump From Sabotaging Obamacare?
The president wants to let the law implode after the failure of repeal and replace, but GOP lawmakers don’t.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Health Care's Bipartisan Moment?
After the failure of the Senate Republican repeal plan, Democrats say they are ready to deal.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Repeal Died—and Could Rise Again
The failed seven-month drama over rolling back Obamacare illustrates just how far the Republican Party has drifted from constituents and good governance.
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Cliff Owen / AP John McCain's 'No' Vote Sinks Republicans' 'Skinny Repeal' Plan
The Arizona veteran cast an unexpected vote against Mitch McConnell’s last-ditch proposal to partially repeal the Affordable Care Act, leaving the GOP once again without a way forward.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Health Care Freedom Act Hits the Senate Floor
The “skinny repeal” would eliminate Obamacare’s mandates, defund Planned Parenthood, and lead to 16 million more uninsured.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Senate's Blind Vote on 'Skinny Repeal'
Three Republicans issued an unusual demand on Thursday, saying they will only vote for Mitch McConnell’s latest proposal if they are assured it won’t become law.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Why Trump Is Threatening the Wrong Republican Senator on Health Care
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is no vulnerable GOP squish—she wields significant power over the Interior Department and once won her seat as a write-in candidate.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Skinny Repeal Gets a Score
The Congressional Budget Office offered an estimate of Republicans’ last-ditch attempt to roll back Obamacare.
