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Cruz Amendment
Aug. 1, 2017
The GOP’s Latest Health-Care Gambit This last-gasp effort at a GOP-only bill mostly gives states the flexibility to cut health-care services, while threatening insurance-market chaos.
By Ed Kilgore
July 21, 2017
Senate Parliamentarian May Have Dealt Last, No-Kidding-Final Blow to Trumpcare By excluding from Trumpcare indispensable features, the Senate parliamentarian has probably killed the bill unless McConnell nukes her rulings.
By Ed Kilgore
July 21, 2017
Here Is Where Things Stand With the Senate Health-Care Bill McConnell doesn’t have the votes to pass any version of it. But, in theory, he does have an incredibly narrow path to success.
By Ed Kilgore
July 20, 2017
Another Day, Another Scary CBO Score of Another Trumpcare Bill The latest version of Trumpcare would cost 22 million people health coverage, just like its predecessor, but McConnell has some room to maneuver.
By Ed Kilgore
July 14, 2017
How Many Millions Losing Health Coverage Will GOP ‘Moderates’ Find Acceptable? Soon Republican centrists will have to decide if big insurance losses due to Medicaid cuts are okay after all.
By Ed Kilgore