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The GOP Is Throwing a Hail Mary on Obamacare Repeal It will require speed and stealth, cooperation from CBO, and a rubber-stamp House vote, but the Graham-Cassidy bill has a slim chance of becoming law.
By Ed Kilgore
The Final Obamacare Repeal-and-Replace Scheme Is Headed for a Ditch It’s an underfunded version of an earlier plan to let states control health-care policy. But Graham-Cassidy is probably a bill whose time has passed.
By Ed Kilgore
Heller’s Hamlet Act on Health Care Bombing Back Home For a long time Dean Heller looked likely to thwart his party’s drive for health-care legislation. Then he flipped back, but the GOP failed anyway.
By Ed Kilgore
What If McCain Had Said ‘Yes’ to the ‘Skinny Repeal’? If the climactic vote on the “skinny repeal” had gone the other way, the result would have probably been the same: GOP failure, with much time lost.
By Ed Kilgore
Maybe There’s No Light at the End the Tunnel for the GOP Health Bill After All All the tactical brilliance that has kept unpopular and divisive GOP health care legislation alive disguises a fatal strategic blindness.
By Ed Kilgore
Keeping the ‘Skinny Repeal’ Bill From Getting Fat Won’t Be Easy for GOP The point of “skinny repeal” of Obamacare is to enact a bare-bones bill to shape in committee. Bulking up could be fatal.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Democrats Call BS on the GOP’s Devious Health-Care Debate Knowing McConnell plans to unveil a new health-care bill at the 11th hour, Schumer won’t push amendments to legislation the GOP has already abandoned.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Is Rejecting Two Years’ Worth of GOP Health-Care Policy The GOP-controlled Senate is rejecting its own rhetoric on health care.
By Ed Kilgore
‘Skinny Repeal’ Could Be Final Effort to Sell Trumpcare — Whatever Trumpcare Is The GOP figures out new ways to delay making painful decisions about health-care policy.
By Ed Kilgore
McConnell Schedules Leap-Into-the-Unknown Health-Care Vote for Tuesday It could be a bluff, or McConnell may have something up his sleeve, but at this point, it seems he’s planning a vote he’ll probably lose.
By Ed Kilgore
Six Questions About the Senate Health-Care Bill As the Endgame Approaches The GOP is still struggling for votes to bring up health-care legislation. If that succeeds, the deal-making and rules-breaking will get serious.
By Ed Kilgore
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
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
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
Despite Trump’s Demands, No Miraculous Health-Care Breakthrough for GOP Senators The president seems to think more time and effort will overcome the divisions among Senate Republicans on health care. So far, no signs he’s right.
By Ed Kilgore
CBO Says Repealing Obamacare Without a Replacement Would Be a Disaster CBO says a “straight repeal” would cost 32 million their health coverage while doubling premiums.
By Ed Kilgore
Trumpcare’s ‘Orphans’ Must Search for New Homes Several provisions conservatives hitched to Obamacare repeal will need new legislative vehicles now that Trumpcare has crashed.
By Ed Kilgore
Now What? Democrats Must Decide How to Exploit the Collapse of Trumpcare. Democrats could go small or big or refuse cooperation at all. But the party needs a strategy to deal with its sudden leverage over health-care policy.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate GOP to Try Doomed Vote on ‘Straight Repeal’ of Obamacare Now that Trumpcare is all but dead, McConnell will give conservatives their “straight repeal” vote, and then move on to tax and budget legislation.
By Ed Kilgore
No, Filibusters Aren’t Keeping 50 Republican Senators From Reaching Agreement Sean Duffy (like Donald Trump) wants to blame the threat of filibusters for blocking GOP bills. But the big ones aren’t subject to filibusters.
By Ed Kilgore
Did the ‘Kodiak Kickback’ Buy Lisa Murkowski’s Vote for Trumpcare? No state has gotten more special treatment from the Senate (and the administration) than Murkowski’s Alaska. If it’s not enough, Trumpcare’s dead.
By Ed Kilgore
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July 16, 2017
Vote on GOP Health-Care Bill Delayed While McCain Recovers from Sudden Surgery McCain is expected to recover, but the same can’t be said for the GOP’s haphazard efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
By Chas Danner
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
McConnell’s Two-Faced Approach to Health-Care Reform By giving conservatives long-term Medicaid cuts and then telling moderates they won’t be implemented, McConnell may be too clever for his own good.
By Ed Kilgore
McConnell Scrubs Half the Senate’s August Recess As GOP Scrambles to Save Agenda Will the extra time enable Republicans to come up with a health-care bill 50 senators support? Or deals on taxes and the budget?
By Ed Kilgore
It’s Looking Bad for Trumpcare, But Expect One More Big Push So long as CBO gives the revised bill a better “score,” one last chance to repeal Obamacare could be appealing to all of the GOP’s factions.
By Ed Kilgore
Some Republicans Dislike Health Insurance So Much They Don’t Mind If You Lose It A dirty little secret of GOP health policy is conservatives’ desire for a 1950s-style system with high out-of-pocket costs and limited insurance.
By Ed Kilgore
Cruz Amendment to Senate Health-Care Bill Now Dividing GOP Initially praised as brilliant, Cruz’s idea of letting insurers offer cheap, skimpy health plans is now looking like a deadly threat to sick people.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Medicaid Cuts in Senate Health-Care Bill Ever Be Implemented? Mitch McConnell asked conservatives to accept short-term Medicaid concessions in exchange for long-term cuts. They now fear cuts will never happen.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate GOP Has Asked CBO to Score 2 Versions of Revised Health-Care Bill: Report It appears that versions with and without Senator Ted Cruz’s proposed amendment have been sent off for analysis.
By Chas Danner
The Return of the Repeal-and-Delay Strategy for Killing Obamacare Rand Paul and Donald Trump helped kill the original strategy for repealing Obamacare and enacting a replacement later. Now they’re both reviving it.
By Ed Kilgore
CBO: Medicaid Cuts Will Snowball Down the Road Under Senate Health-Care Bill The design of the Senate health-care bill is to slowly introduce Medicaid cuts that will grow much larger as time goes by.
By Ed Kilgore
If Senate Health-Care Bill Changes a Lot, Will the House Still Rubber-Stamp It? The plan was to pass a Senate health-care bill so similar to the House bill that the GOP could avoid a House-Senate conference. That’s now in danger.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Doesn’t Know What a Medicaid Cut Is Like Newt Gingrich back in the 1990s, Trump is claiming increased Medicaid funding means the program is not being “cut.” That’s, at best, ignorance.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans May Have a Plan B If Their Health-Care Bill Fails The Trumpcare bill is mostly composed of tax and Medicaid cuts. Why not shift these items into the next budget bill?
By Ed Kilgore
Right-to-Life Lobby Has Trumpcare Demands — and Isn’t in Mood for Compromise If Mitch McConnell wants to pass a health-care bill, he must absolutely placate the anti-abortion movement.
By Ed Kilgore
CBO Score of Senate Health Bill Is Grim — But Gives McConnell Wiggle Room On one hand: 22 million people losing coverage. On the other: extra deficit savings to fund sweeteners.
By Ed Kilgore