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Collins’ opposition essentially kills GOP health care drive

WASHINGTON – The last-gasp Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama’s health care law essentially died Monday as Maine Sen. Susan Collins joined a small but decisive cluster of G...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP health bill offers provisions aimed at helping 2 states

WASHINGTON – Provisions shoehorned into the Republican health care bill dangle extra money for Alaska and Wisconsin, home states of one GOP senator whose vote party leaders desperately need ...

DATE: Sep 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Winners and losers in GOP’s last-ditch health overhaul

WASHINGTON – The GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal “Obamacare” would redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal financing for insurance coverage, creating winners and losers amo...

DATE: Sep 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Frustration mounts over premiums for individual health plans

WASHINGTON – Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and get no financial help from the Affordable Care Act are bracing for another year of double-digit premium incre...

DATE: Sep 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More hurdles as Senate again delays vote on GOP health bill

WASHINGTON – The Senate delayed a highly anticipated vote this coming week to repeal and replace the nation’s health care law after Sen. John McCain’s announced absence due to surgery, an en...

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cory Gardner: A swing-state case study of the GOP health-care bind

WASHINGTON – Sen. Cory Gardner faces one of the tougher political predicaments of any Republican deciding how to vote on the GOP health-care bill. The Colorado Republican, a risin...

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP health care divisions multiply as Trump pressures Senate

WASHINGTON – Republican divisions over health care multiplied Monday as President Donald Trump pressured GOP senators to act quickly, and Vice President Mike Pence suggested they might have ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump makes push on health bill; repeal-only vote an option

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is making a weekend push to get a Republican Senate bill to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law “across the finish line,” T...

DATE: Jul 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New health care act would harm farmers and ranchers

AHCA expected to scale back Medicaid coverage, hurt self-employed agricultural workers

DATE: Jun 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Trump: Not ‘that far off’ from passing health overhaul

WASHINGTON – Making a final push, President Donald Trump said he doesn’t think congressional Republicans are “that far off” on a health overhaul to replace “the dead carcass of Obamacare.” E...

DATE: Jun 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World