President Trump has no patience with process. He prefers quick results – and things better go his way.
Affordable Care Act
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Charles Lawton: Democrats can help improve the health care system in place
Cost containment matters, but people need to know they will get care – and not just at the last minute.
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Anthem says it might ‘surgically extract’ itself from individual marketplace
Company CEO Joseph Swedish sent a letter to Congress saying significant changes are needed to the Affordable Care Act.
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Cynthia Dill: Trump needs to free himself from the Freedom Caucus
The president should learn from his mistakes – like Friday’s Obamacare repeal meltdown – and deal with different factions.
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Trump, Republican leaders suffer setback with failure of health care bill
House Speaker Paul Ryan, who championed the bill along with the president, says the Affordable Care Act will remain in effect ‘for the foreseeable future.’
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LePage throws support behind health-care overhaul but warns Congress shouldn’t rush
Maine’s governor says repeal of the Affordable Care Act is key to federal tax reform.
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Republican health-care plan hangs in balance as House leaders push for floor vote
As of late this morning, 36 House Republicans – mainly conservatives – had announced their opposition to the bill, known as the American Health Care Act.
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Report says repeal of Obamacare would hurt poor families and give richest a tax break
Under the Republican bill, in 2022, an average family making less than $50,000 a year would stand to lose federal benefits.
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Rep. Chellie Pingree: Passing ‘Trumpcare’ would take us backward
The Republicans are fast-tracking a bill that cuts taxes for the rich and raises costs for everyone else.
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Trump warns Republican lawmakers that failure of health bill would have political costs
The president predicts that many House Republicans will lose seats and the party will lose control of the chamber in next year’s election if the bill fails, according to a source who was in the closed-door meeting.