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  • The GOP Has One Last Health Care Plan. It Would Also Cause Millions to Lose Coverage

    By Michael Rainey

    Now that Republicans have failed to pass multiple versions of health care bills to repeal and replace Obamacare, or just repeal it, there’s only one GOP health care bill left floating around: one...

  • A Growing List of Bipartisan Ideas for Fixing Obamacare

    By Michael Rainey

    The failure of the most recent Republican attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care means that Obamacare will likely be with us for the foreseeable future. This political reality has given a...

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    What Can Be Done About Rising Drug Prices?

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare may have collapsed, but as Northern Trust economists Carl R. Tannenbaum and Ankit Mital wrote in a note published Friday , there’s a broader...

  • Why Republicans Can’t Cure Their Obamacare Hangover

    By Edward Morrissey

    With repeal and replace dead at the moment, Republicans in Congress and in the White House now have to make a choice in how to deal with Obamacare. Do they attempt to manage it as best as possible,...

  • A man holds a sign at the Tea Party Patriots 'Exempt America from Obamacare' rally on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington

    Obamacare Premiums and Budget Deficits Will Soar If Trump Ends Insurer Subsidies

    By Rob Garver

    If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to stop paying insurance companies a controversial set of subsidies established by the Affordable Care Act, the government will lose money...

  • A small group of demonstrators stand outside of of a hotel before former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, president of the The Heritage Foundation, speaks at a "Defund Obamacare Tour" rally in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.  August 26, 2013.  REUTERS/Nate

    One More Try? Why Obamacare Repeal Is on the Horizon Again

    By Rob Garver

    The effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which many assumed was dead or at least in a state of suspended animation for the foreseeable future, may be showing some stirring of life...

  • FILE PHOTO - Applications are seen at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act in Jackson Mississippi

    Taxpayers Will Pay the Price for Uncertainty Over Obamacare in 2018

    By Rob Garver

    On average, the amount of premium payment picked up by the federal government will increase by about 63 percent in the states reviewed by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

  • Here’s Medicare for All: Long Wait Times, Fewer Doctors, and Huge Tax Hikes

    By Edward Morrissey

    Fresh off his surprisingly close challenge of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries – and her ignominious defeat in the general election – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the leader of progressive...

  • Emergency room beds are seen onboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) prior to its departure from Naval Base San Diego

    Heads Up: Health Care Is Still in Trouble

    By Rob Garver

    The issue of the US health insurance system was taken off the front burner with the evident failure of the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But while it may not be in...

  • Here’s How Much More Your Health Insurance Will Cost Next Year

    By Beth Braverman

    Consumers who get health insurance through their jobs won’t see rate hikes in the double digits like those on the Obamacare exchanges, but they’ll still see the cost of health care go up.

  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to Reuters during an interview in Washington, U.S., May 24, 2017.   REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

    The GOP Health Plan: A Giant Step in the Wrong Direction or Merely Step One?

    By Edward Morrissey

    It didn’t take long for Republican leadership on Capitol Hill to produce an answer to seven years of pledges to repeal Obamacare. It also didn’t take long for Donald Trump to throw his considerable...

  • Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 16, 2017.  REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

    3 Big Winners in the GOP Health Care Plan – and 3 Big Losers

    By Eric Pianin

    If the Republicans succeed in repealing and replacing a major federal health care program -- for the first time in history -- there will be numerous winners and losers in their wake. Paul B. Ginsburg...

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    Obamacare Repeal Won’t Be Cheap: GOP Plan Could Cost $700 Billion

    By Eric Pianin

    A new report by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation highlights the Republicans' growing challenge to find a way to finance their plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

  • Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) speaks with the media following the weekly policy luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 6, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

    A Test for the Dealmaker: Selling the Controversial GOP Health Care Plan

    By Liz Peek

    Republicans are squabbling over healthcare. Again. But the repeal and replacement of Obamacare will go forward. Why? Because this has been the signature issue of every GOP campaign for over six years...

  • Ryan hands the pen to Price after signing a bill repealing Obamacare at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

    Up to 10 Million Could Lose Their Insurance With GOP Health Plan: S&P

    By Dan Mangan, CNBC

    Hisham Uadadeh enrolls in a health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act on Feb. 13, 2014, in Miami. Rep. Yarmuth: GOP plan takes us back to time before the ACA Between 6 million and 10...

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