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Republicans are claiming a triumph by pushing their legislative centrepiece scuttling much of U.S. President Barack Obama's health care law through the House. It was a perilous journey, and its Senate pathway will be at least as bumpy with little doubt the measure will change, assuming it survives.
As Republicans move closer to dismantling Democrat Barack Obama's health care law, Americans with serious illnesses are feeling uneasy. The GOP health care bill pushed through the House on Thursday leaves those with pre-existing conditions fearful of higher premiums and losing coverage altogether if the Affordable Care Act is replaced.
Jake Martinez, 32, speaks during an interview while his wife Kat, 31, holds their daughter Jenny, 3, at their home Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Murray, Utah. Jake Martinez, who has epilepsy, is worried about health insurance as Republicans move closer to dismantling the Affordable Care Act, which he and his wife use.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper blasted the U.S. House of Representative's passage of the American Health Care Act on Thursday, saying that the bill, "threatens to end health insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands of hard working Coloradans." Hickenlooper's lieutenant governor, former health care executive Donna Lynne, said the AHCA scrambles the state's health safety net.
After weeks of remaining tight-lipped on her stance, U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Willsboro, voted in favor of the Obamacare replacement bill that passed the House of Representatives Thursday afternoon. Republicans narrowly passed the controversial bill to revise the Affordable Care Act, fulfilling a major Trump campaign promise but sending the measure on to an uncertain fate in the closely divided Senate.
House Republicans on Thursday passed legislation aimed at repealing and replacing ObamaCare, taking a major step toward a long-held goal and setting in motion an overhaul of the nation's health system. The narrow 217-213 vote is a victory for GOP leaders, who faced a tumultuous path to getting the bill to the floor.
When the House Republican Conference gathered in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning, it was greeted by a couple of motivational songs: "Eye of the Tiger" and "Taking Care of Business." On Twitter, the A.P.'s Erica Werner also relayed the message that the Party's leadership sent to the rank and file, which was equally lacking in subtlety: "It's time to live or die by this day."
Democrats on Thursday tore into the House GOP's vote to repeal ObamaCare, ripping their healthcare plan as a "tax cut for millionaires" and "immoral." The House narrowly passed the American Health Care Act by a 217-213 vote earlier Thursday afternoon.
WATCH: @SpeakerRyan 's full remarks in a Rose Garden press conference in the wake of GOP health care bill passing the House. pic.twitter.com/Y9SAaddhYS Paul Ryan Ryan touts passage of ObamaCare repeal at White House Snoozing GOP Congress is failing - and it can't blame Trump Dems tear into 'shameful' ObamaCare repeal vote MORE touted the passage of a House measure to repeal and replace ObamaCare on Thursday, but warned that there is still work to be done.
What does the Republican Obamacare repeal bill actually do? The House is set to vote Thursday on the latest version of Republicans' Obamacare repeal legislation. Check out this story on jconline.com: https://usat.ly/2pKZVF0 The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, later today, beginning the process of repealing and replacing the bill.
After months of planning and weeks of wrangling with wary lawmakers, the House is set to vote today on legislation to overhaul the Affordable Care Act and redefine health care in America. If the House approves the measure, it will go the Senate for another round of negotiations before returning to the chamber for a final vote on a compromise bill.
The mood among House Republicans is jubilant Thursday morning as they prepare to vote for their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. The first test vote easily passed along party lines, with a final vote on the bill expected in the 1 p.m. ET hour on the legislation, would dismantle the pillars of the Affordable Care Act and make sweeping changes to the nation's health care system.
A Republican congressman is confident his party's health care bill won't result in millions losing coverage due to less federal funding of Medicaid. As originally introduced in March, the bill would leave 24 million fewer people insured by 2026 than under Obamacare, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.
Rep. Fred Upton speaks to a group of students after a vote outside of the Capitol Building May 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. Rep. Upton, a moderate Republican, announced that he would support his party's health care bill after adding an amendment he believes will help prevent people with pre-existing medical conditions from losing coverage.
Republicans plan a fresh bid to push their health care bill through the House of Representatives and claim a victory for Donald Trump, six weeks after nearly leaving it for dead. House leaders plan a vote on Thursday on the legislation, revamped since collapsing in March to attract most hard-line conservatives and some GOP centrists.
House Republicans planned a vote Thursday on a revised bill rolling back much of former President Barack Obama's health care law. The legislation would rework subsidies for private insurance, limit federal spending on Medicaid for low-income people and cut taxes on upper-income individuals used to finance Obama's overhaul.
Absent meaningful change to the deeming regulations, many believe that thousands of vapor products will be effectively banned, shuttering tens of thousands of small businesses. On May 1, 2017, the Center for Tobacco Products of the Food and U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the FDA would defer enforcement, by three months, of all future compliance deadlines under the rules published in May 2016 affecting e-cigarettes and cigars.
A pair of moderate Republicans who'd been holdouts against the GOP health care bill said Wednesday they were now backing the high-profile legislation after winning President Donald Trump's support for their proposal for reviving the languishing measure. The conversions of Reps.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events With multiple media reports suggesting that the drive to repeal Obamacare may be on life-support, House Republicans are rolling out a last-ditch effort to salvage their repeal-and-replace bill before support for it collapses once again. They plan to introduce a new amendment that is designed to give moderates a way to pretend that the GOP bill won't harm people with preexisting conditions - and thus, a way to support the bill in the numbers needed to pass it.
Even if you were paying only very little attention, you would have gotten the distinct impression over the past four election cycles that the GOP was unalterably committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare. It didn't matter what year the Republicans were running or what presidential candidate , repeal of Obamacare remained the consistent theme.