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After months of work in Congress, 鈥渞epeal and replace鈥 efforts on the Affordable Care Act may be coming back from the dead 鈥斅燼gain. With analysis, explanation and data,聽Repeal & Replace Watch聽follows the new politics of health care.
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As postmortems mount regarding the collapse of the Senate Republican health plan, it鈥檚 clear how complex political and policy issues worked against the replacement effort.
The Trump administration has a variety of mechanisms at its disposal that could undermine the insurance exchanges.聽
The Trump administration has a variety of mechanisms at its disposal that could undermine the insurance exchanges.聽
The Affordable Care Act has repeatedly faced opposition in Congress and the courts, but it has continued to survive.
The Affordable Care Act has repeatedly faced opposition in Congress and the courts, but it has continued to survive.
After a late-night session and the "skinny" defeat, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pulls legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from the floor.
Republican senators are warming to the idea of a scaled-back plan that would delete the Affordable Care Act鈥檚 individual and employer mandates but leave the rest of law generally intact. But this approach has caused difficulties in the past.
For pregnant women in the United States, Medicaid is less a safety net than a building block of the maternity care system.
In far northern Lassen and Modoc counties, residents say Obamacare premiums are unaffordable. But under the proposed Senate bill, insurance premiums would increase even more.
The Senate鈥檚 vote to proceed with debate on an Obamacare repeal bill had drama and plenty of color, but you couldn鈥檛 get the complete picture on TV.
The deliberations will be strictly governed by a time limit on debate and strict rules about what is germane.
The $45 billion for opioid treatment in the Senate bill sounds like a lot of money, but an advocate estimates it would provide $1,000 to $2,000 per year for each person in Pennsylvania who might need treatment. Meanwhile, one year of methadone treatment for opioid addiction costs about $4,700 per year,
The parliamentarian finds that provisions of the bill cannot go forward with a simple majority vote.
As Senate Republicans continue to revise its health care legislative drafts to try to reach 50 votes, the Congressional Budget Act estimates the impact of those changes.
Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal, Sarah Kliff of Vox.com, and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times discuss the ever-changing status of the Senate鈥檚 effort to 鈥渞epeal and replace鈥 the Affordable Care Act, and the Trump administration鈥檚 efforts to undermine the working of the law.
During another day of fast-moving developments, Senate Republicans signaled their intent to attempt to bring an updated repeal-and-delay bill to the floor for a vote next week.
The failure this week of the U.S. Senate鈥檚 ACA repeal effort was one more twist in the ongoing political drama that has complicated routine rate setting for insurers and state officials.
The debate over whether to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has been heated 鈥 and many of those moments have captured a wide audience on YouTube and Twitter.
Doctors, consumers and politicians say big federal cuts to Medicaid funding would jeopardize the treatment a lot of kids rely on. The state would either have to make up lost funding or cut benefits.
A key bill provision would likely lower premiums, but coverage would be skimpier with consumers left to figure out the trade-offs.
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