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Avik Roy / Forbes:
House GOP's Obamacare Replacement Will Make Coverage Unaffordable For Millions — Otherwise, It's Great — That's not an ironic headline. Leading House Republicans have included a number of transformative and consequential reforms in their American Health Care Act, the full text of which was published Monday evening.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Republican Obamacare plan signals that liberalism has already won — In releasing their healthcare plan on Monday, House Republican leaders sent a signal loud and clear: liberalism has already won. — Barring radical changes, Republicans will not be passing a bill that ushers in a new era of market-based healthcare.
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Eugene Scott / CNN:
Chaffetz: Low-income Americans will have to choose health care over iPhones — Chaffetz: Invest in healthcare over iPhone — House Republicans introduced a bill Monday that would scrap Obamacare's individual mandate and change the way Medicaid is administered
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The Atlantic, The Mahablog, The Verge, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Scripting News
Julia Belluz / Vox:
The Republican health insurance plan slashes funding for vaccines and public health — The ACA's Prevention and Public Health Fund is poised to disappear by 2019. — Yesterday, House Republicans released their plan for replacing Obamacare, giving Americans a sense, at long last …
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ABC News, Ways and Means and Health Affairs Blog
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The GOP health bill doesn't know what problem it's trying to solve — After seven years of drafting a replacement plan, we get ... this? — Have you read Sarah Kliff's thorough look at the GOP Obamacare replacement? You have? Good. Some thoughts. — Little in politics shocks me.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
GOP Sen. Roy Blunt: House GOP health care plan ‘may not be a plan which can get a majority of votes to pass’ — (CNN)Republican Sen. Roy Blunt said Tuesday that the House Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act may not be able to get a majority of votes to pass.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
House Republican plan would create Obamacare cliff for 2020 presidential election — House Republicans on Monday released their long-awaited healthcare bill, but the plan would only repeal major parts of Obamacare starting in 2020 — when the political world will be engulfed in the next presidential election.
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Michael F. Cannon / Cato Institute:
The House GOP Leadership's Health Care Bill Is ObamaCare-Lite — Or Worse
The House GOP Leadership's Health Care Bill Is ObamaCare-Lite — Or Worse
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Washington Post, National Review and Vox
Heritage Action for America:
GOP PLAN FAILS TO MOVE PAST OBAMACARE'S PROGRESSIVE PROMISE
GOP PLAN FAILS TO MOVE PAST OBAMACARE'S PROGRESSIVE PROMISE
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Chaffetz clarifies comments on choosing between healthcare, iPhone
Chaffetz clarifies comments on choosing between healthcare, iPhone
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Conservatives pan House Obamacare repeal bill
Conservatives pan House Obamacare repeal bill
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Wall Street Journal:
The Health Bill You've Waited For
The Health Bill You've Waited For
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CNN:
CNN/ORC poll: Public splits on revoking individual mandate
CNN/ORC poll: Public splits on revoking individual mandate
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Washington Post, Politico and Washington Times
Timothy Jost / Health Affairs Blog:
Examining The House Republican ACA Repeal And Replace Legislation
Examining The House Republican ACA Repeal And Replace Legislation
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Mother Jones and Vox
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
RINO-Care: A more insolvent version of Obamacare ... except this time GOP owns it
RINO-Care: A more insolvent version of Obamacare ... except this time GOP owns it
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New York Times:
The Parts of Obamacare Republicans Will Keep, Change or Discard
The Parts of Obamacare Republicans Will Keep, Change or Discard
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Daily Kos and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Chelsea Clinton knocks ObamaCare replacement plan
Chelsea Clinton knocks ObamaCare replacement plan
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The American Health Care Act: the Republicans' bill to replace Obamacare, explained
The American Health Care Act: the Republicans' bill to replace Obamacare, explained
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Chaffetz: Americans May Have To Choose Between New Phone, Health Insurance
Chaffetz: Americans May Have To Choose Between New Phone, Health Insurance
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ThinkProgress, CNNMoney and Eschaton
New York Times:
WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents — WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents that it said described sophisticated software tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency to break into smart phones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions.
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
WikiLeaks says it has obtained trove of CIA hacking tools
WikiLeaks says it has obtained trove of CIA hacking tools
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Extra:
Alec Baldwin Might Not Play Trump on ‘SNL’ Much Longer — Star Alec Baldwin has quickly become a fan favorite playing President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” but the actor isn't sure how much longer he will do it. — “Extra's” Mario Lopez sat down with Alec to talk about his new movie …
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Monmouth University:
Public divided on how changes to ACA would affect pocketbook — West Long Branch, NJ - A national Monmouth University Poll conducted right before Congressional Republicans unveiled their health care plan this week found that 1-in-3 Americans believe any such reform would drive …
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Chris Massie / CNN:
Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he's ‘very discouraged and disappointed’ by GOP health care plan
Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he's ‘very discouraged and disappointed’ by GOP health care plan
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
Conservatives Pan GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan as ‘Welfare’
Conservatives Pan GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan as ‘Welfare’
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Peter W. Stevenson / Washington Post:
That time Trump surprised a White House tour group in front of a portrait of Hillary Clinton — White House tours resumed Tuesday after being on hiatus during the presidential transition and inauguration. And within a few short hours, one tour group got just about all the access it could hope for.
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Trump's White House spokesmen have taken questions for 242 fewer minutes than Obama's
Trump's White House spokesmen have taken questions for 242 fewer minutes than Obama's
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Mediaite, Media Matters for America, Politico and Political Wire
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Trump's Wiretap Tweets Raise Risk of Impeachment — The sitting president has accused his predecessor of an act that could have gotten the past president impeached. That's not your ordinary exercise of free speech. If the accusation were true, and President Barack Obama ordered …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump's split screen: A two-hour virtual conversation between the president and ‘Fox and Friends’ — Early Tuesday morning, President Trump tuned into “Fox and Friends.” — For several days, Trump's staff kept him away from television cameras. He spent the weekend hidden away …
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Elaina Plott / Washingtonian:
Is Katrina Pierson Actually Doing Anything? — On the eve of President Trump's State of the Union address, Katrina Pierson strolls into the Trump Hotel lobby, her face buried in her gold bedazzled phone. She's just arrived from a Fox News hit, and the suit-clad men gathered at the bar, sipping Manhattans, notice.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Liberals threaten to primary over Gorsuch — Left-leaning groups are sending a stern message to Democrats who consider backing President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court: Do it and risk a primary challenge in 2018. — Liberal activists say Senate Democrats are not doing enough to focus …
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Omaha's Answer to Costly Potholes? Go Back to Gravel Roads — OMAHA — After living more than 40 years along a road plagued by potholes, Jo Anne Amoura was excited to see city crews shred her block of Leavenworth Street into gravel. — “I thought, 'Oh my gosh, this is great.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Khan speech in Canada cancelled amid questions — Gold Star father and outspoken President Trump critic Khizr Khan on Monday canceled a planned speech in Canada as questions about the circumstances swirled. — Ramsay Talks, the organization planning to host Khan Tuesday for his scheduled speech …
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump — Kremlin-controlled news outlets used to root for Donald Trump's election. Now they're reveling in the chaos and division of his early presidency. — “Sessions Scandal: ‘U.S Headed to Constitutional Crisis,’” reads a March 3 headline on the website …
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