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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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Heritage Action for America:
GOP PLAN FAILS TO MOVE PAST OBAMACARE'S PROGRESSIVE PROMISE — Washington — Monday evening, House Republican leaders released text of their long-anticipated American Health Care Act (AHCA). Despite widespread conservative criticism and the lack of score from the Congressional Budget Office …
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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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trumpcare Is the Culmination of All the GOP's Health-Care Lies — The Republican Party in its modern incarnation is incapable of writing a decent health-care bill, if we define “decent” to mean both some level of technical competence as well as morally decent.
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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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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
10 million may lose health insurance coverage under GOP's Obamacare replacement plan, S&P says — Between 6 million and 10 million people would lose health insurance coverage if a Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act becomes law, a new report estimates.
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Sophia Crabbe-Field / Democracy Journal:
A Hidden Harm of the Obamacare Replacement
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The Hill:
First ObamaCare votes put vulnerable GOPers on the spot
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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’
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
‘Obamacare Lite,’ ‘RINOcare’: Conservatives rebel against GOP's ACA bill
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Wall Street Journal:
The Health Bill You've Waited For
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The GOP health bill doesn't know what problem it's trying to solve
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Conservatives pan House Obamacare repeal bill
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Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
RINO-Care: A more insolvent version of Obamacare ... except this time GOP owns it
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
One tweet that explains Republicans' big health care bill challenge
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Julia Belluz / Vox:
The Republican health insurance plan slashes funding for vaccines and public health
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Timothy Jost / Health Affairs Blog:
Examining The House Republican ACA Repeal And Replace Legislation
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Chris Massie / CNN:
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’
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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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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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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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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Chaffetz clarifies comments on choosing between healthcare, iPhone
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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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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
White House appears to copy from Exxon Mobil release — A White House press release congratulating Exxon Mobil Corp. for its recent investment in U.S. manufacturing repeats an exact paragraph from the oil company's own release, CNN reported Monday. … “ExxonMobil is strategically investing …
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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
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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Is That Cute Kid Trump Met at the White House Today Making the Pepe Symbol?
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog News:
Newsmax/WSJ: Trump met Russian Amb. Kislyak last April — Contradicting repeated denials from Donald Trump and his team, Newsmax reported on May 14, 2016 that Trump met Russian Ambassador Kislyak at a VIP reception in Washington on April 27. — And while meeting the Russian ambassador is fine, why lie about it?
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Bre Payton / The Federalist:
11 Times Barack Obama Compared Slaves To Immigrants — This week, liberals savagely mocked Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson for allegedly comparing slaves to immigrants. It looks like they've completely forgotten about all the times Barack Obama did the exact same thing.
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Carson has long history of referring to slaves as immigrants
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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 …
Austin Wright / Politico:
CIA providing raw intelligence to senators for Trump-Russia probe — The CIA has begun providing raw intelligence documents to members of Congress who are investigating Russia's meddling in the presidential election, two senators said Tuesday. — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) …
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Here Are The Official Photos Showing Trump's Inauguration Crowds Were Smaller Than Obama's — Trump has accused the media of manipulating photographs in order to show the size of the crowd at his inauguration was much smaller than Obama's. Photos released Monday by the National Park Service show otherwise.
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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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