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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Donald Trump blasts Congress over failure of GOP health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and “a few Republicans” Tuesday over the failure of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law, and warned, “we will return.” Trump’s early morning tweet unleashed a barrage of criticism at Congress over the collapse of the GOP’s flagship legislative priority. For seven […]
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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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More Maine parents decline to vaccinate children
AUGUSTA (AP) — New data from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention show that more children are entering kindergarten without vaccinations for diseases like measles, chicken pox and whooping cough. The Portland Press Herald reports the number of parents opting their children out of immunizations for nonmedical reasons rose from 4 percent to […]
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McCain's absence forces Senate to delay vote on GOP health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate delayed a highly anticipated vote this coming week to repeal and replace the nation’s health care law after Sen. John McCain’s announced absence due to surgery, an enormous setback as time dwindles for Republicans to pass the signature legislation after years of promises. The decision by Senate Majority Leader Mitch […]
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Simple health insurance plan
I see signs all over the place telling Sen. Susan Collins to vote against the GOP proposed health care plan. I say the federal government needs to repeal Obamacare and get out of the health insurance business. Let the states handle their own uninsured people. Some people demand free health care for themselves and are […]
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New GOP health bill contains cheaper plan sought by Ted Cruz
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a high-stakes bid for conservative support, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to demands from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to allow insurers to sell low-cost, skimpier plans as part of a new but still-reeling health care bill being released Thursday, two GOP aides said. However, including that provision […]
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Donald Trump says he'll be 'angry' if Senate health care bill flops
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will be “very angry” if the Senate fails to pass a revamped Republican health care bill and said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must “pull it off,” intensifying pressure on party leaders laboring to win over unhappy GOP senators and preserve the teetering measure. Trump’s remarks came […]
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Senate GOP leaders hope for health care vote next week
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders are hoping to stage a climactic vote on their health care bill next week, though internal rifts over divisive issues like coverage requirements and Medicaid cuts leave the timing and even the measure’s fate in question. “We need to start voting” on the GOP bill scuttling much of President Barack […]