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2:20 PM ET, March 7, 2017

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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.
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
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 …
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.
Michael F. Cannon / Cato Institute:
The House GOP Leadership's Health Care Bill Is ObamaCare-Lite — Or Worse  —  During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised legislation that “fully repeals ObamaCare.”  Monday night, the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives released legislation it claims would repeal and replace ObamaCare.
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.
Wall Street Journal:
The Health Bill You've Waited For  —  Our plan removes taxes and mandates, while offering tax credits to help Americans afford coverage.  —  'ObamaCare is collapsing," President Trump said during his address to Congress last week, “and we must act decisively to protect all Americans.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Conservatives pan House Obamacare repeal bill
Timothy Jost / Health Affairs Blog:
Examining The House Republican ACA Repeal And Replace Legislation
Discussion: Mother Jones, Vox and kff.org
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
RINO-Care: A more insolvent version of Obamacare ... except this time GOP owns it
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Conservatives Pan GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan as ‘Welfare’
New York Times:
The Parts of Obamacare Republicans Will Keep, Change or Discard
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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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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Kelly Lawler / USA Today:
Alec Baldwin's days playing Donald Trump on ‘SNL’ are numbered
Discussion: The Atlantic
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
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
White House appears to copy from Exxon Mobil release
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
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Chris Massie / CNN:
Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he's ‘very discouraged and disappointed’ by GOP health care plan
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed:
The Republican Health Care Plan Includes A Tax Break For Insurance CEOs
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 …
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 …
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 …
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
DNC Chair Admits Party Suffering Both a ‘Crisis of Relevance’ and ‘Confidence’  —  Newly elected Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez admitted Monday that the party has its work cut out for them, as it's suffering from both a crisis of relevance and a crisis of confidence.
Discussion: IJR and The Gateway Pundit
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Pence defends House plan to repeal, replace Obamacare
Discussion: Business Insider
CNN:
Trump's new national security adviser attends naturalization ceremony of Iraqi he sponsored
Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Jason Chaffetz: Low Income Americans Should Buy Healthcare ‘Rather Than Getting That New iPhone’
Andrew Pantazi / Florida Times Union:
For the second time in a week, protests push Marco Rubio out of an office
Discussion: Hot Air, WSVN-TV and The Daily Caller
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Ossoff, Handel, and Gray Emerge as Frontrunners
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
Justin Holcomb / Townhall.com:
Iran Launches Two Ballistic Missiles, Sinking an Offshore Barge 150 Miles Away
Discussion: Fox News and AOL
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump
Discussion: Politicus USA and Daily Kos
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Omaha's Answer to Costly Potholes? Go Back to Gravel Roads
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml …:
“The Reality Is, Half Of Americans Can't Afford To Write A $500 Check”
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The Ancient Laws of Unintended Consequences
Discussion: Instapundit
John Crudele / New York Post:
Why Dems will regret a probe into Russian election hacking
Discussion: BizPac Review
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Senate Democrat Who Claimed Hard Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion: Uh, Never Mind
Discussion: Hot Air and The Resurgent
Katie Glueck / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Can Ronna Romney McDaniel unite a fractured Republican Party?