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Bloomberg
The House voted, and health stocks shrugged. Hospital and health insurance stocks quickly bounced back after the U.S. House of Representatives voted for a bill that would repeal large parts of Obamacare but faces a tough road in the Senate. In the minutes after the vote, the BI North America Hospitals Index fell as much as 1.6 percent before reversing to close up 0.2 percent.
The Republican bill, formally known as the American Health Care Act, passed by a vote of 217-213, would cut billions of dollars in health-care spending and result in millions more Americans going without health insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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The Hill
The House managed to narrowly pass its Obamacare repeal bill by finding a delicate balance between hard-line conservatives and moderates. Now the Senate is looking to achieve the same feat, only with a smaller margin for error. Senate moderates have already put their markers down on the healthcare issues that concern them the most, notably its changes to Medicaid.
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Modern Healthcare
Many if not most of the 31 states that expanded Medicaid to low-income adults likely would end those coverage expansions if Congress ultimately approves the House Republican healthcare reform bill passed Thursday, state policy experts say. Healthcare leaders and experts in Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia predicted their states would terminate their expansions if Congress passed the American Health Care Act with its Medicaid provisions intact. They and national policy experts said they see very few states having the financial capacity or political will to maintain the expansions if the bill's large cut in federal funding is enacted.
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Reuters
Debra Bright said she battled for years with mental illness and addiction to pain pills and other drugs that were all too easy to find where she lives in West Virginia, one of the states hardest hit by the country's opiate epidemic. Now Bright, 42, fears the bill passed on Thursday by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to repeal Obamacare will roll back the Medicaid insurance coverage that has enabled her to get drug and mental health treatments she would not have been able to afford otherwise.
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Chicago Tribune
House Republicans clinched a political victory Thursday with a nail-biting vote to pass the much-discussed American Health Care Act — a bill that aims to replace large swaths of Obamacare. What could this mean for you? Much is still unknown about exactly how the bill's provisions would unfold, and whether the Senate will agree to it. But if the bill becomes law, it could affect many Illinois residents, including those who get insurance through their employers, those who buy their own plans and those who are Medicaid recipients.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
New Jersey and Pennsylvania could be among the biggest losers in the Affordable Care Act replacement plan that squeaked through the House on Thursday, policy experts said, and for reasons that have gotten little public attention. One example: Both states devote more of their Medicaid spending to seniors and disabled people combined than almost anyplace else in the country. Care for these groups is especially costly, and the GOP plan would not keep pace with their needs. So the states could be forced to cut benefits or raise taxes to maintain services that many people do not consider optional.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Ohio Gov. John Kasich said the healthcare bill passed by House Republicans Thursday "remains woefully short" when it comes to helping vulnerable Ohioans. A Republican who ran for president in 2016, Kasich has been outspoken in his opposition to previous versions of the bill, which would have curtailed the expansion of Medicaid he embraced as governor.
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Reuters
For nearly three years, Democrats and former President Barack Obama pointed to Kentucky as one of the Affordable Care Act's biggest success stories. A poor, rural state that straddles the North and South, Kentucky was an early adopter of the healthcare law commonly known as Obamacare and saw one of the country's largest drops in the uninsured rate. Now Kentucky is poised for a new distinction — to be the first state to save money by reducing the number of people on Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled and a central tenet of Obamacare.
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The Advocate
Louisiana is eyeing an effort that would require able-bodied adults to get a job if they want to receive Medicaid benefits — mimicking efforts in other states that have been bolstered by ballooning Medicaid rolls and encouragement from the Trump administration. The state legislature is expected to request that the idea be studied in the coming year to give them more insight and data before deciding to move forward with such a requirement.
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The Arizona Republic
House Republicans this week pushed through legislation that seeks to dramatically overhaul the government-funded insurance program that covers nearly 2 million low-income and disabled Arizonans. If the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act passes the U.S. Senate, it could put difficult and expensive health-policy decisions on the shoulders of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona Legislature.
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Modern Healthcare
Passage of the House Republicans' healthcare overhaul bill may have created political and policy complications for the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, whose funding will end in September unless Congress reauthorizes it. The Senate Finance Committee postponed a planned hearing on CHIP reauthorization scheduled for Tuesday, reportedly at the request of committee Democrats who didn't want work on the House GOP's American Health Care Act to overshadow efforts to extend the children's program.
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The Hill
Former President Barack Obama accepted the John F. Kennedy "Profile in Courage" Award in Boston on Sunday, where he spoke broadly about the healthcare debate gripping the country. In his first remarks since the House passed a bill repealing and replacing Obama's signature healthcare law, the former president ruminated on the idea of political courage.
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