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Opinion | If Dr. Trump Were Your Surgeon ...
This is an exceptionally humorous operating room story of Dr. Trump and Dr. McConnell by Kristof of the NYT. Sometimes humor tells the story- and Kristof does this using a story of a surgeon president Trump in the operating Room trying to address the concerns of the patient Janet, as he keeps telling her she needs a new heart with great benefits, great benefits, before she implodes or goes down failing. Flat out take the old heart out even if a replacement hasn't been found, believe me great benefits the surgeon tells her, just that the patient just isn't getting convinced as its happening to her. The analogy is with replacing a health care plan, not just the Obama plan, any plan without something to take its place. For a few days before this article by Kristof, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act without having a replacement was presented as a good idea. Janet is like the three Republican women- Collins of Maine, Capito of West Virginia, and Murkowski of Alaska who wanted to keep the heart they had till a replacement was found, against the surgeon Trump's advice. In a way it is about politicians in the last decade who never had any discussions as they rushed through with their own agendas, as the Republican and Democratic health care plans were rushed through Congress with relatively little participation and debate to hear all viewpoints.
How the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act or pass a Republican healthcare bill failed in the U.S. Senate in mid July 2017
07/19/2017
This is the story of how Senators Collins of Maine, Moran of Kansas, and other Senators Grassley of Iowa, Paul of Kentucky decided to go their own way in mid July 2017. Leading to the collapse of efforts to pass a Republican healthcare bill that slashed Medicaid spending and allowed premiums to rise for the elderly, all without public discussion and debate or any discussion in committees to hear different views.
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How the Senate Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President
The New York Times 07/19/2017
The 3 Republicans Who Doomed a Senate Repeal of the Health Law
The New York Times 07/18/2017
Opinion | If Dr. Trump Were Your Surgeon ...
The New York Times 07/20/2017
‘Let Obamacare Fail,’ Trump Says as G.O.P. Health Bill Collapses
The New York Times 07/18/2017
Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Trump
The New York Times 07/20/2017
CBO Says Revised Senate Plan Would Increase Uninsured by 22 Million
WSJ 07/20/2017
Rollback of Medicaid expansion of the ACA under the Republican House health care plan in 2017
03/11/2017
Grouped Articles
Lawmakers Debate Fate of Medicaid
WSJ 03/11/2017
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows
The New York Times 03/13/2017
US health bill 'to leave 14m more uninsured' - BBC News
BBC News 03/13/2017
CBO Sees 24 Million More Uninsured, $337 Billion Deficit Cut in Coming Decade With GOP Health Plan
WSJ 03/13/2017
CBO Sees 24 Million More Uninsured, $337 Billion Deficit Cut in Coming Decade With GOP Health Plan
WSJ 03/13/2017
Health insurance woes helped elect Trump, but his cure may be more painful
The Guardian 03/21/2017
Seniors and the Republican House health care plan in 2017- higher costs for lower income seniors in order to reduce premiums
03/11/2017
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GOP Health Plan Risks Backlash From Seniors
WSJ 03/11/2017
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows
The New York Times 03/13/2017
US health bill 'to leave 14m more uninsured' - BBC News
BBC News 03/13/2017
CBO Sees 24 Million More Uninsured, $337 Billion Deficit Cut in Coming Decade With GOP Health Plan
WSJ 03/13/2017
FBI Probe Could Hurt Donald Trump’s Clout in Congress
WSJ 03/21/2017
Health insurance woes helped elect Trump, but his cure may be more painful
The Guardian 03/21/2017
Republican party 2017 Health Care Plan
03/09/2017
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GOP Health Plan Advances After Clearing Two House Committees
WSJ 03/09/2017
House Republicans Repeat an Obama Error
WSJ 03/09/2017
GOP health-care bill would drop addiction treatment mandate covering 1.3 million Americans
Washington Post 03/10/2017
Amending Obamacare could break parts of the health-insurance market
The Economist 03/10/2017
G.O.P. Health Law Insures Fewer People, Nonpartisan Review Shows
The New York Times 03/13/2017
US health bill 'to leave 14m more uninsured' - BBC News
BBC News 03/13/2017
Criticism of the Republican healthcare plan in 2017
05/05/2017
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G.O.P. Cheers a Big Victory. But Has It Stirred a ‘Hornet’s Nest’?
The New York Times 05/05/2017
Opinion | The Trumpcare Disaster
The New York Times 05/04/2017
In Rare Unity, Hospitals, Doctors and Insurers Criticize Health Bill
The New York Times 05/05/2017
On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer’s Role
The New York Times 06/27/2017
Health Bill Draws Fiscal Fault Line Between Old and Poor—and the Poor Are Losing
WSJ 06/28/2017
Senate Republicans Unveil New Health Bill but Divisions Remain
The New York Times 07/13/2017
The Republican party and its plans to defund the Affordable Care Act (Obama Health Care Law) in the U.S.
09/30/2010
Plans in the GOP to defund the healthcare bill if the Republicans win a majority in the House of Representatives.
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A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
In Rural Iowa, Spending, Not the Shutdown, Raises Worry
New York Times 10/04/2013
Why Democrats Are Dug in on Shutdown Impasse
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2013
Jim DeMint: We Won't Back Down on ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal 10/17/2013
Behind Debt Deal: Silence, Distrust and Hardball
Wall Street Journal 10/17/2013
The GOP Eyes Defunding Health Reform
BusinessWeek 09/30/2010
Comparing the way Affordable Care Act was rushed through Congress in 2012 with the way the Republican health care plan AHCA is pushed through in 2017
03/22/2017
Both plans take different approaches based on the groups the politicians serve. Neither plan tackles squarely the root problem of health care costs that makes it hard to bring health care to all Americans, leaving politicians with setting priorities of serving the middle class or the poor based on their viewpoints. Without a change in culture in America similar to that in Europe and Japan on health care as something all should have and a culture of pricing that matches this and makes it possible to do so, the problem remains untackled.
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Republicans trapped by their old attacks on health care
Washington Post 03/22/2017
House Vote to Repeal Affordable Care Act Is Postponed, Despite Trump’s Effort
The New York Times 03/23/2017
US healthcare bill: Blow for Trump as House vote delayed - BBC News
BBC News 03/23/2017
Paul Ryan Rushes to White House to Tell Trump Votes Are Lacking to Repeal Obamacare
The New York Times 03/24/2017
The Big Health Fix Bruises Ryan and Trump
WSJ 03/24/2017
Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand
The New York Times 03/27/2017
Listening to the concerns of ordinary people about the Republican healthcare bill in 2017 from rural Kansas to rural Maine
07/07/2017
Grouped Articles
Unlikely Holdout Underscores Challenge for Senate Health Bill
The New York Times 07/06/2017
Opinion | Time for Republicans to Start From Scratch on Health Care
The New York Times 07/07/2017
A special report on Donald Trump’s America
The Economist 07/06/2017
Why the Senate health care bill is in trouble, in 2 quotes
CNN 07/05/2017
Senate Republicans Unveil New Health Bill but Divisions Remain
The New York Times 07/13/2017
Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect
The New York Times 07/18/2017
The effort to revive the Republican health care plan in Congress in July 2017
06/28/2017
Grouped Articles
On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer’s Role
The New York Times 06/27/2017
Vote Delayed as G.O.P. Struggles to Marshal Support for Health Care Bill
The New York Times 06/27/2017
Health Bill Draws Fiscal Fault Line Between Old and Poor—and the Poor Are Losing
WSJ 06/28/2017
Why the Senate health care bill is in trouble, in 2 quotes
CNN 07/05/2017
Opinion | Time for Republicans to Start From Scratch on Health Care
The New York Times 07/07/2017
Senate Republicans Unveil New Health Bill but Divisions Remain
The New York Times 07/13/2017
The Obama U.S. health care law, the Affordable Care Act of 2012, and public support- 2012-2017
03/23/2012
An average of major public opinion polls compiled by Real Clear Politics website shows 50.5% of Americans opposed the U.S. health care law in March 2012. By 2017 with high premiums and high deductibles the Obama Affordable Care Act was not seen by middle class as the solution to healthcare needs, though it helped the uninsured and the poor with subsidies. The Republican plan of Speaker Ryan and the House was seen as not sensitive to the needs of low income older Americans even as it sought to bring down premiums. As one middle class American, Mr. Riffle, in a 2017 survey by the Washington Post put it- the problem was the high cost of medical care in the U.S. and pricing of healthcare, until members of Congress used the plans on the insurance exchanges not much would happen to benefit most people.
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Chief Justice John Roberts’s health-care ruling gets plenty of second-guessing - The Washington Post
Washington Post 06/30/2012
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
In Rural Iowa, Spending, Not the Shutdown, Raises Worry
New York Times 10/04/2013
Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash
New York Times 11/22/2013
Uninsured Skeptical of Health Care Law in Poll
New York Times 12/18/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/20/2014
Kristof and Heutteman on Republican Senators Collins, Capito, Murkowski and president Trump- a failure to listen to people affected in the home districts
07/20/2017
Linked Articles
Opinion | If Dr. Trump Were Your Surgeon ...
The New York Times 07/20/2017
The 3 Republicans Who Doomed a Senate Repeal of the Health Law
The New York Times 07/18/2017
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