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A plan by three Republican lawmakers for replacing President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul would leave Americans with less coverage and higher costs than the landmark law they want to repeal, Democrats said Thursday. “It effectively raises taxes on the middle class, removes bedrock protections for consumers and chips away at key coverage benefits that Americans rely on,” Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said a day after the GOP authors released their outline. (2/5)

As the Senate’s chief defender of the Affordable Care Act, Sen. Chris Murphy took a sledgehammer to a GOP alternative Thursday. (Radelat, 2/5)

Congressional Republicans are unveiling what they say is a new plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, but the ‘blueprint,’ as they call it, looks an awful lot like what’s been floated before. (Kalman, 2/5)

A war of the right-wing wonks is starting to rage as Republicans debate how best to repeal and replace Obamacare — and potential GOP presidential contender Bobby Jindal is smack in the middle. (Wheaton, 2/5)

Polling in the low single-digits and still trying to build a national donor base, Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is aiming to draw attention to himself and his soon-to-be 2016 presidential candidacy. So there was Mr. Jindal Thursday, calling out Washington’s Republican leaders for being insufficiently committed to repealing the Affordable Care Act. (Epstein, 2/5)

Republicans are seeking to ensure that no federal dollars go to health insurance companies under Obamacare's risk corridors, a program the GOP attacks as an industry "bailout." Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced legislation Wednesday to make risk corridors budget-neutral. A similar bill from Cassidy was included in the federal spending package passed in December, though the requirement would only apply for one year. (Viebeck, 2/5)