GOP health victory may be fleeting as wary Senate awaits
Senate Republicans wasted no time on Friday showing they have little use for the House bill to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act amid fears among Americans that people already sick won’t be able to get affordable insurance.
Joyful House GOP votes to repeal reviled ‘Obamacare’
Delivering at last, triumphant House Republicans voted Thursday to repeal and replace the “Obamacare” health plan they have reviled for so long, overcoming united Democratic opposition and their own deep divisions to hand a major win to President Donald Trump.
Republican health care bill would allow employers to cap benefits
The Republican health care plan that passed the House on Thursday targeted a key protection for Americans who get their health insurance through work.
GOP revives struggling health care bill and plans House vote
In a startling turnabout, Republicans say they are ready to push their prized health care bill through the House and claim a victory for President Donald Trump, six weeks after nearly leaving it for dead and days after support from GOP moderates seemed to crumble anew.
Insurers say Trump must do more to stabilize ‘Obamacare’
“Obamacare” is proving more of a challenge than the Trump administration bargained for.
Ryan says House to revisit health care, offers no details
Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday he’s going to give battered House Republicans another crack at a health care overhaul.
Self-inflicted collapse chokes GOP effort to undo Obamacare
House Republicans passed roughly 60 bills over the past six years dismembering President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
House sets risky health care vote after Trump demands it
The House steered toward a climactic vote today on the Republican health care overhaul, plunging ahead despite deep uncertainty over whether they had the votes to prevail in what loomed as a monumental gamble for President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress.
Retirement dreams fizzle for some with ‘Obamacare’ repeal
Workers dreaming of early retirement are getting the jitters as Washington debates replacing the Obama-era health care law with a system that could be a lot more expensive for many older Americans.
Wheels spinning as GOP looks for traction on health bill
Pulling in different directions, Republicans are striving to get traction for a health care overhaul in danger of being dragged down by intra-party differences.
House GOP health bill facing fresh committee test
The White House and Republican leaders are talking to rank-and-file lawmakers about revising the GOP health care overhaul, hoping to keep a rebellion by conservatives and moderates from snowballing and imperiling the party’s showpiece legislation.
Analyst: Millions to lose coverage under GOP bill
Fourteen million Americans would lose coverage next year under House Republican legislation remaking the nation’s health care system, and that number would balloon to 24 million by 2026, Congress’ budget analysts projected Monday.
Republicans brace for downbeat CBO analysis of health bill
Republicans pushing a plan to dismantle Barack Obama’s health care law are bracing for a Congressional Budget Office analysis widely expected to conclude that fewer Americans will have health coverage under the proposal, despite President Donald Trump’s promise of “insurance for everybody.”
Pence appeals for complete GOP support for overhaul
Vice President Mike Pence appealed for total GOP congressional support for a White House-backed health overhaul during a brief visit Saturday to Kentucky, where the Republican governor and junior senator are among the plan’s skeptics.
Women’s health services face cuts in proposed Republican bill
Women seeking abortions and some basic health services, including prenatal care, contraception and cancer screenings, would face restrictions and struggle to pay for some of that medical care under the House Republicans’ proposed bill.
House panel OKs health bill, industry groups say ‘no’
House Republicans scored a pre-dawn triumph today in their effort to scuttle former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but it masked deeper problems as hospitals, doctors and consumer groups mounted intensifying opposition to the GOP health care drive.
House GOP releases bill replacing Obama health care overhaul
House Republicans on Monday released their long-awaited plan for unraveling former President Barack Obama’s health care law, a package that would scale back the government’s role in helping people afford coverage and likely leave more Americans uninsured.
Pressure on GOP to revamp health law grows, along with rifts
President Donald Trump declared Monday that “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.”
Pre-existing conditions complicate health care replacement
As Republicans try to unite around a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, one of the most popular parts of the law will be among the most difficult to replace: the guarantee of health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
‘It saved my life’: Talk of Obamacare repeal worries addicts
While the Affordable Care Act has brought health coverage to millions of Americans, the effects have been profound, even lifesaving, for some of those caught up in the nation’s opioid-addiction crisis.