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American Health Care Act

  1. last night on late night
    Donald Trump, Paul Ryan Do Thelma & Louise in Samantha Bee’s Trumpcare BreakdownGlorious, in a certain sense.
    By Karen Brill
  2. last night on late night
    The Daily Show Analyzes Paul Ryan’s Attempt to Pass the American Health Care Act“Big things hard. Paul Ryan sad.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  3. Health-Care Debacle Further Depresses Trump’s Already-Low Approval RatingsThe president is finding himself so deep in negative territory that it could really damage his party in 2018.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. What’s Next for the GOP on Health Care? Apparently Nothing at AllThe collapse of Trumpcare could be the GOP version of Clintoncare: something none of them will hurry to repeat.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. Democrats Celebrate Collapse of Trumpcare by Trolling Trump on TwitterSome solid owns coming from the left side of the aisle this afternoon.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  6. GOP’s Planned Parenthood Fight Could Result in a Government ShutdownIf no longer nestled in a giant health-care bill, the defunding of the women’s health organization could spark an appropriations fight.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. White House Wants to Force Health-Care Vote As Nervous Ryan Rushes to Meet TrumpThe repeal of the ACA is on the verge of collapse.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  8. Death of Trumpcare Would Leave Some Hungry Legislative OrphansAHCA was more than an Obamacare repealer. It also included provisions on taxes, Planned Parenthood, and Medicaid that GOP will still need to pursue.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. Trump Regrets Backing Paul Ryan’s Plan to Do Health Care FirstThe president has realized that he doesn’t actually need to repeal Obamacare to slash taxes, as Paul Ryan had suggested.
    By Eric Levitz
  10. GOP Hits a Dead End on Trumpcare, Cancels VoteAfter a “final offer” to House conservatives failed, Trump and Ryan may be back to square one with a divided GOP and no clear path forward.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. GOP Senator Apologizes After Mocking Breast-Cancer Screening Coverage“I sure don’t want my mammogram benefits taken away.”
    By Lisa Ryan
  12. Last Time the GOP Passed a Health-Care Bill the Vote Was UglyAs the House prepares for a long night of whipping on Trumpcare, bad memories return of a Medicare Part D vote that haunts conservatives to this day.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. health care
    Conservative Trumpcare Fix Leaves Moderates Angry, Freedom Caucus NoncommittalLast-minute concessions yielded another moderate “no,” and no firm support from the conservatives.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  14. health care
    These Senators Can Kill Trumpcare, and McConnell Can’t Do Much to Stop ThemRepublicans can only spare two votes, and six GOP senators oppose the bill for complex and contradictory reasons.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. health care
    Despite AHCA Tweaks, Conservatives Say They Have the Votes to Defeat the BillThere are concessions to various Republican factions, but conservatives say GOP leaders have “seriously miscalculated.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  16. 4 GOP Governors Attack Trumpcare (From the Left)But the bill is moving forward — and to the right.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. How Republicans Could Nuke the Rules to Pass TrumpcareThis one weird trick involves an arcane interpretation of budget rules that would end the filibuster.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. health care
    GOP Health Bill Is One Vote From Death After Senator Susan Collins Opposes ItShe’s the second Republican senator to give a firm “no,” but several others have been railing against the legislation.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  19. Senate Republicans Hope House Health-Care Bill Dies AlreadyAs Paul Ryan struggles to get his star-crossed health-care bill across the line in the House, Senate Republicans are increasingly praying he fails.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. How Trumpcare Would Affect Medicaid and Why That’s Dividing RepublicansTrying to placate GOP-governed states that expanded Medicaid while shedding federal responsibility for indigent health care has been hard to do.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. health care
    Trump Admits AHCA Would Hurt His Voters, Says It’s ‘Going to Be Negotiated’“If we’re not going to take care of the people, I’m not signing anything,” he told Tucker Carlson.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  22. health care
    Republicans Search for Someone to Blame for TrumpcareAfter the dismal CBO estimate, more Republicans are turning against AHCA — and each other.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  23. GOP Governors Find the American Health Care Act Pretty Heavy-handedNo flexibility for them. And they aren’t happy about it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. health care
    Leaked White House Analysis Says AHCA Would Be Even Worse Than PredictedNevertheless, the Trump administration is leaning toward making the law take effect next year, in a concession to the far right.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  25. John Oliver Drafts a Freaky Friday Proviso for the Republican Health Care Plan“Using wish or magic not otherwise specified.”
    By Hunter Harris
  26. Breitbart May Have Just Killed TrumpcareSteve Bannon’s old site (correctly) notes that the House GOP’s Obamacare replacement would hurt Trump’s base and endanger his party in 2018.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. Watch Paul Ryan Try to Defend the GOP Health-Care BillWith PowerPoint!
    By Jared T. Miller
  28. GOP Senator Says Republican Bill Would Make Health Care ‘Probably Worse’Tom Cotton tells CNN that Paul Ryan’s bill “would not solve the problems of our health-care system” — and would make things “probably worse.”
    By Eric Levitz
  29. House Committees Hold All-Night Sessions to Rubber-stamp GOP Health BillEven as Trumpcare hemorrhages support, Republicans are working around the clock to get it to the floor.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. How the GOP Might Fudge the Numbers to Make Trumpcare Seem Less IrresponsibleOn the brink of what many fear will be a terrible-looking “score” of its health-care bill, congressional Republicans may just get a new scorekeeper.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. Trump’s Backup Plan: Let Health-Care System Explode, Blame DemocratsIn a meeting with conservative AHCA opponents, Trump mentioned a dubious strategy he’s previously dismissed as too heartless.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  32. The Planned Parenthood Fight Republicans Don’t Need But Can’t AvoidIt may only cost them a vote or two in the Senate, but combined with other problems, Planned Parenthood defunding could be fatal to Trumpcare.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. Trump to Bully GOP Into Passing the AHCA — or Some Plan They Like BetterAfter promising to rein in GOP defectors, the White House signaled that they’re still open to suggestions on health-care reform.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  34. Trump Says ‘Everybody’ He’s Seen Supports the GOP’s New Health-Care BillMany Republicans, conservative groups, and health-care lobbies have already come out against the bill.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. Sean Spicer Begs America to Look at His Tiny Health-Care BillThe press secretary explains that large stacks of paper are “government,” while smaller stacks of paper are “not.”
    By Eric Levitz
  36. Chaffetz: GOP Bill Will Let Americans Choose Between Health Care and iPhonesOne GOP lawmaker boasts that health care will be affordable under the House’s new bill — so long as low-income people stop buying iPhones.
    By Eric Levitz