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Senate Revises Health Care Legislation: Read The New Bill
The Senate releases an updated draft of its health care legislation. Read the bill and compare with the original.
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Senators Grill Top Indian Health Officials About Trump Budget
The administration officials could not answer some basic questions from senators, including how much money the agency has gained from the health law鈥檚 Medicaid expansion and whether President Donald Trump鈥檚 proposed 2018 budget would help the agency hire more staff.
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GOP Health Bill Eases Rules For Some Small-Business Plans
Congressional Republicans are keen to loosen restrictions set by the federal health law on insurance sold by associations that small employers join.
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Senate GOP Bill Aims To Add Psych Beds; Squeeze On Medicaid Signals Their Undoing
The Senate health care bill has a provision to increase hospital beds for psychiatric care, but overall cuts in Medicaid could lead to even fewer beds nationwide.
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Obamacare Inspires Unlikely Political Action In California’s Red Region
In a county where cows outnumber people and most voters supported Donald Trump, a coalition of health clinics is driven to defend the health law.
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Parents Of Ill Children Worry About Return Of 鈥楲ifetime Limits鈥 In GOP Health Bill
Current law requires all health insurance sold on the exchanges to cover 10 essential benefits 鈥 with no annual or lifetime limits to reimbursement. But the GOP plan might let states reinstate limits.
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The Call-In: Answers To Questions About Our Business-Driven Health System
On NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, KHN's Elisabeth Rosenthal answers questions about the high cost of U.S. health care, while NPR's Gisele Grayson addresses how the Senate bill to replace the Affordable Care Act would change the system.
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What Tax Breaks? Those Promised In GOP Plans Go Mostly To Top 1%
Similar to the House-passed American Health Care Act, the Senate GOP health bill would change or eliminate more than a dozen taxes that were put in place to help pay for provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
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Should GOP Health Bill Prevail, Say Bye-Bye To Insurance Rebates
A little-noticed provision of the Senate GOP health plan would unwind an Affordable Care Act provision limiting insurer profits, administrative costs.
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McConnell Has About $200B In 鈥楥andy鈥 To Make Deals On Obamacare Repeal
As many as a dozen GOP senators may oppose the Senate majority leader鈥檚 Obamacare repeal bill. But the dealmaking is just beginning.
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Men Wrote The Senate Health Care Bill. This Woman Could Stop It.
Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate鈥檚 parliamentarian, will be in the hot seat as she is called upon to decide which provisions of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell鈥檚 bill draft fit the tight rules that allow for it to be passed without a filibuster.
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Podcast: What The Health? Senate Bill Sparks Fireworks Before The Fourth
Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post discuss the state of the Senate鈥檚 effort to replace Obamacare.
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Calif. Officials Sound Alarm, Envisioning $114B Hit To Medi-Cal Under U.S. Senate Bill
鈥淣othing is safe 鈥 no population, no services,鈥 the director of the nation鈥檚 largest Medicaid program said Wednesday. GOP leaders say they seek to cut costs and widen consumer choices.
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For Millennials, Both Good And Bad News In Senate’s GOP Health Bill
Provisions in the Senate鈥檚 鈥渞epeal and replace鈥 bill could help some young adults by lowering the cost of premiums but could hurt others who gained insurance through a massive expansion to Medicaid.
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Postcard From Capitol Hill: Doubts, Dissent Over Health Bill Rescue July Fourth Holiday
Scenes from Capitol Hill Tuesday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell鈥檚 effort to pass a health care bill this week crumbled.
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Analysis: Mitch McConnell Plans To Hide Trumpcare鈥檚 Pain Until After Midterms
The Senate health bill to repeal Obamacare hews closely to the electoral calendar, delaying much of the pain until after Republicans face re-election in Congress, statehouses and the White House.
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House Seeks To Cap Malpractice Awards As Part Of Health Care Update
The bill would limit non-economic damages to $250,000, but it faces opposition from across the political spectrum.
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CBO Deals Blow To Senate Health Bill With Estimate Of 22 Million More Uninsured
The much anticipated score by the nonpartisan agency could make it more difficult for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to round up the 50 votes he needs to pass his plan to replace Obamacare.
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Senate And House Take Different Plans To Scrap Individual Mandate
The Republicans' penalty would affect people buying insurance who had a lapse in coverage of more than 63 days over a year.
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鈥楥overage Gap鈥 For Poor May End, But Many Will Still Have Trouble Affording Plans
Although some people below the poverty level will now be able to qualify for premium subsidies, they may have trouble covering the out-of-pocket costs.