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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, flanked by other GOP leaders at the White House.

Obamacare vote short on details: ‘I don’t even know what we’re proceeding to next week’

August 22, 2019 at 12:12 a.m.

As the Senate hurtles toward a potential vote next week to roll back the Affordable Care Act, Republican lawmakers still don't know what legislation they will consider or what impact...

Obamacare repeal bills could put coverage out of reach for millions of sick Americans

August 22, 2019 at 12:09 a.m.

President Trump and congressional Republicans, despite repeated pledges to preserve sick Americans' access to health coverage, are poised to scrap this core insurance protection in their campaign to roll back...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks about working through part of the recess with senators John Barrasso, (R-Wyo.), left, and John Thune, (R-S.D.), at his side.

Divided Senate Republicans will take another crack at Obamacare repeal today

August 22, 2019 at 12:07 a.m.

Senate Republicans are set to unveil revised legislation Thursday to roll back the Affordable Care Act, even as political support has deteriorated so dramatically that it is now unclear whether...

Repair instead of repeal? Here’s what a smaller fix might look like

August 22, 2019 at 12:06 a.m.

With Senate Republicans struggling to find votes for sweeping legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act, several GOP lawmakers have raised the prospect of a more limited bill —...

Police remove a protester last week from outside the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), where patients with disabilities staged a sit-in to protest proposed cuts to Medicaid in the Senate GOP health care bill.

GOP’s Obamacare repeal bills threaten huge disruptions across the health care system

August 21, 2019 at 11:54 p.m.

Congressional Republicans, who for years blasted the Affordable Care Act for disrupting Americans' health care, are now pushing changes that threaten to not only strip health coverage from millions, but...

Ohio resident Stephanie Neeley, who struggled with an addiction to opioids, was able to get treatment thanks to Medicaid coverage made possible by the Affordable Care Act. She fears that may go away.

Fears mount that Obamacare repeal will put life-saving treatments for opioid epidemic out of reach

August 21, 2019 at 11:51 p.m.

There weren't always strollers jamming the lobby of First Step Home, one of this city's growing number of drug treatment centers. But as the opioid epidemic has swept through Ohio,...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Republican secrecy faces mounting criticism as senators work behind closed doors to repeal Obamacare

August 21, 2019 at 11:47 p.m.

Senate Republicans are facing increasing criticism for ducking public scrutiny as they craft legislation to roll back the Affordable Care Act with little input from outside experts, patients, physicians and...

Health insurers plan big Obamacare rate hikes — and they blame Trump

June 4, 2018 at 6:31 p.m.

Health insurers across the country are making plans to dramatically raise Obamacare premiums or exit marketplaces amid growing exasperation with the Trump administration's erratic management of the program and its...

Health insurers, state officials say Trump is undermining Obamacare, pushing up rates

August 21, 2019 at 11:24 p.m.

Health insurers across the country are making plans to dramatically raise Obamacare premiums or exit marketplaces amid growing exasperation with the Trump administration's erratic management, inconsistent guidance and seeming lack...

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) talks to reporters at the Capitol on April 27, discussing new GOP efforts to roll back the Affordable Care Act.

Health care bill vote delayed, as GOP shuts out input from doctors, experts, Democrats

August 21, 2019 at 11:08 p.m.

President Trump and House Republicans, in their rush to resuscitate a bill rolling back the Affordable Care Act, are increasingly isolating themselves from outside input and rejecting entreaties to work...

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