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Senate Health Debate Rolls On After First Option Fails
The U.S. Senate passes a motion that allows the chamber to proceed with a debate on a health care bill. The motion passed 51-50 with Vice President Mike Pence casting the deciding vote. Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted against the motion. This report in the WSJ says this sets in motion a process in which debate will take place and amendments will be made. It is not clear what shape the bill will take. Under the process used only a simple majority is needed in the Senate, yet this allows for many amendments to be made.
Only hours after this motion passed by one vote, a bill replacing major parts of the Affordable Care Act failed to pass 57 votes against and 43 in favor. Senator John McCain who arrived in Washington from Arizona following brain tumor surgery, delivered strong criticism of the way the Republican healthcare bill was rushed through allowing very little debate. Experts have commented on the way the bill was rushed through with a thin majority for passage, with very little debate, first by Democrats in 2009 and now in the House by Republicans. With the same pattern now followed in the Senate by Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate. A backup bill would remove just the individual and employer mandates and a tax on medical devices- the elements Republicans agree on, if no majority can be put together for the healthcare bill.
The passage of a procedural motion on the bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act in the U.S. Senate on July 24, 2017, by 51-50 vote
07/25/2017
Grouped Articles
How Senators Voted to Consider the Republican Health Care Bill
07/25/2017
Senate Health Debate Rolls On After First Option Fails
WSJ 07/26/2017
Republican party 2017 Health Care Plan
03/09/2017
Grouped Articles
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
The major provisions of the U.S. Republican Healthcare bill that passed the House in a 216-212 vote on May 4, 2017
05/04/2017
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What’s in the AHCA: The Major Provisions of the Republican Health Bill
The New York Times 05/04/2017
The Balance Sheet for Republicans After Big Health Vote
WSJ 05/04/2017
In Rare Unity, Hospitals, Doctors and Insurers Criticize Health Bill
The New York Times 05/05/2017
Senate Republicans Unveil Obamacare Repeal Bill: Live Analysis
WSJ 06/22/2017
How the Senate Health Bill Differs From House Bill, Obamacare
WSJ 06/22/2017
Senate Health Bill Gives Huge Tax Cuts to Businesses, High-Income Households
WSJ 06/22/2017
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.
Grouped Articles
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
Republican Efforts to Repeal the Obama Health Care Law in 2011
01/06/2011
Grouped Articles
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
Republicans Reject Cost Estimate of Health Law Repeal
New York Times 01/06/2011
In Battle Over Health Law, Math Cuts Both Ways
New York Times 01/07/2011
Wall Street Journal 07/01/2012
The ObamaCare Bad News Continues
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2011
Obamacare: The reckoning - The Washington Post
Washington Post 03/23/2012
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.
Grouped Articles
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
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 Health Care Law that passed the U.S. House of Representatives by 220 to 215 on November 7, 2009.
11/09/2009
Health care reform legislation efforts and the political difficulties that they ran into in Congress. The new health care law passed over Republican opposition in Congress.
Grouped Articles
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/2013
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
In Final Hours, an Intense Push for 'Yes' Votes
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
Health-Care Overhaul Proposals
Wall Street Journal 11/09/2009
Democrats Raise Alarms Over Health Bill Costs
New York Times 11/10/2009
Health-care bill's ability to reduce deficits debated
Washington Post 11/30/2009
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.
Grouped Articles
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
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