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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Commentary: Lawmakers must protect Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid patients
Cutting access to this trusted and irreplaceable health care provider will put countless lives at risk.
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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.
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Senate Republican holdouts split into rival camps on Obamacare overhaul
Republican leaders face a conundrum: If they move the bill to the right, moderates go running; move it to the left, and conservative opponents dig in.
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Mainers would pay up to 7 times more in premiums under House Republican ACA replacement bill
Residents ages 55 to 64 would be hit hardest by Congress’ overhaul, and small-town Maine could see premiums jump sevenfold under the House plan.
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Sen. Collins says she can’t support House health care plan in current form
The moderate Republican says ‘Older people living in rural America would be really left behind.’
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Republican health plan: How much the rich would gain and the elderly poor would lose
In all, the bill provides $883 billion in tax relief by repealing almost all of the taxes enacted under the Affordable Care Act, according to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.
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Leonard Pitts: Fat-cat dismissals of the poor’s health care needs will always be with us
Republicans’ bill to replace the ACA is a bullhorn touting the party’s scorn for struggling Americans.