Bruce Poliquin President Donald Trump’s call to repeal the Affordable Care Act and then work to find a replacement for it failed to sway anyone in Maine’s legislative delegation. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, a 2nd District Republican, said Tuesday that “in light of what we have seen over the last several months, once again, I […]
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Donald Trump pushes GOP senators to restart Obamacare repeal-and-replace effort
WASHINGTON — Hoping to avoid a humiliating political defeat, President Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded that Republican senators resume their efforts to approve a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, insisting that lawmakers are “very close.” A day after the GOP strategy to rollback the ACA appeared dead, Trump invited Republican senators […]
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Susan Collins says no to Obamacare repeal
With the apparent demise of the Senate Republican’s health-care bill, President Donald Trump and others have called for repealing the Affordable Care Act without having a successor program in hand. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said Tuesday she’s opposed to repeal alone. “I do not think that it’s constructive to repeal a law […]
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Mitch McConnell gets ready to repeal Obamacare as Donald Trump lashes out
Republicans in Congress were reeling Tuesday from the failure of their latest health bill as President Donald Trump said he’s willing to let Obamacare fail and called on the Senate to change one of its central rules. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the chamber will vote on a straight repeal — with a two-year […]
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Two more senators drop support, health care bill collapses
WASHINGTON (AP) — The implosion of the Senate Republican health care bill leaves a divided GOP with its flagship legislative priority in tatters and confronts a wounded President Donald Trump and congressional leaders with dicey decisions about addressing their perhaps unattainable seven-year-old promise of repealing President Barack Obama’s law. Two GOP senators — Utah’s Mike […]
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Susan Collins, Angus King both oppose revised Senate health care bill
A new health care proposal by the Senate GOP may face a rocky future. Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said changes made to the measure’s first draft aren’t enough. “Still deep cuts to Medicaid in Senate bill,” she said in a statement on Twitter, where she said she’ll vote no on whether to […]
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Unafraid of Trump, senators feel free to 'go their own way'
Here’s what happened after Senate Republican leaders on June 27 decided to postpone a vote on a health-care bill aiming to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. (Whitney Shefte, Rhonda Colvin, Malcolm Cook, Bastien Inzaurralde / The Washington Post) WASHINGTON — Scrambling to line up support for the Republican health-care bill, President Donald Trump got on […]
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U.S. Senate delays vote on GOP health care bill
Coverage of the Republican legislation overhauling the Affordable Care Act (all times EDT): Updated 1:50 p.m.: Sources tell the Associated Press that Senate Republican leaders have abruptly delayed the vote on their health care bill until after the July 4th recess. That’s the word Tuesday as the GOP faced five defections from its ranks just […]
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Senate Republicans scramble to keep alive plans to overhaul Obamacare
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders scrambled Tuesday to keep alive their plans to overhaul the 2010 Affordable Care Act as a growing number of senators expressed doubts about the measure following the release of a fresh budget analysis. The current GOP proposal would cause an estimated 22 million more Americans to be uninsured by the […]
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How Medicaid mission creep has complicated GOP's 'Obamacare' repeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Somewhere along the way, the Republican crusade to repeal “Obamacare” also turned into an effort to limit the future growth of Medicaid. That bit of mission creep is complicating prospects for the GOP, and could lead to deadlock. The federal-state program for low-income people has long been stigmatized as substandard. But over […]