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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Republicans Have Painted Selves Into Corner With Seven Years Of Promises
Congressional Republicans are stymied over health care. But after seven years of promising to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's law, they risk political disaster if they don't deliver. Republicans anticipate a major backlash from GOP voters if they don't make good on the promises that swept them to control of the House and Senate and helped propel Donald Trump to the White House in last year's elections. (6/29)
In Virginia, Republican gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie is getting peppered with questions on the campaign trail about President Trump鈥檚 efforts on health care, and he has declined to take a clear position. In Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who is up for reelection next year, says health-care plans being advanced by the Republican Congress 鈥渄o not work鈥 for his state, but he is still getting badgered by Democrats to speak out more forcefully against Trump. (Wagner and Nirappil, 6/28)