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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) have started what could turn out to be an avalanche of proposals by GOP presidential candidates to repeal and replace Obamacare, but the repeal part seems to be the only thing the hopefuls can agree on. (Matishak, 8/19)

Then Bush went on the attack. He fired his toughest shots to date at Trump, saying the businessman “doesn’t have a proven conservative record” because he is a former Democrat who once supported tax increases and a single-payer health-care system. ... At an Elk’s Lodge in Salem, N.H., Wednesday, Kasich talked about his record of pragmatism in Congress and as governor as well as his compassion for the poor, the drug addicted and the mentally ill. (Rucker and DelReal, 8/19)

Walker faced criticism for lacking passion in his first GOP debate performance earlier this month. But he's begun to show more spark on the trail in Iowa and New Hampshire this week, confronting protesters at the Iowa State Fair and criticizing Republicans in Congress for failing to repeal the president's health care law as he rolled out his own replacement plan. At multiple events in New Hampshire on Wednesday he reminded crowds of his fights with Wisconsin's unions and his survival of a 2012 recall election. (8/19)

Yvanna Cancela, the political director of the culinary union, said [Democrat Martin] O'Malley on Wednesday "gave one of the best speeches of the convention." She said she was pleased in particular by his pledge to address one of the union's top priorities: repealing the so-called "Cadillac tax" in the Affordable Care Act. At issue is a 40 percent tax on expensive insurance plans, scheduled to take effect in 2018, that’s meant to slow the growth in health-care spending while raising revenue. (Wagner and Rucker, 8/19)