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NBC News
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Monday night that he lacked the votes to pass the Senate healthcare bill after two more Republican senators came out against it, leaving the party short of a majority. Instead, he said the Senate would vote on a full repeal of Obamacare, with two years before the repeal goes into effect to allow time to create a new system. The new plan may appear to fulfill a seven-year GOP promise, but it faces extremely difficult odds after many moderate Republican senators have already come out against repeal without an immediate replacement.
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The Hill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said on Monday night the Senate will try to separate the Obamacare repeal and replacement efforts, closing the door on the current GOP healthcare legislation. The move means Senate Republicans will try to repeal Obamacare now, while kicking a replacement until after the 2018 midterm elections.
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Forbes
The latest proposal from the Republican-led U.S. Senate to gut the Affordable Care Act offers the opportunity for Americans, particularly young people, to purchase less expensive policies with skimpier benefits. But advocates for young Americans say Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's recent additions to the GOP's Better Care Reconciliation Act miss the mark. Millennials want adequate benefits and tend to use more services provided via Obamacare's essential health benefit packages, such as mental health and substance abuse treatment, that may not be a part of bare-bones plans.
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The Sacramento Bee
Democrats showed uncommon unity in fighting Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, and it appeared to be working Monday as two more GOP senators said they can't support the latest version. But Democrats' discipline masks a deep and fundamental divide within the party that could complicate efforts to gain ground in the 2018 election and beyond.
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The Associated Press via The Washington Post
More than 200,000 Virginians will be impacted by a new Medicaid program that starts Aug 1. The Virginian-Pilot reports that the program will move many people with complex medical issues from a "fee for service" system to a managed care format. Affected enrollees will include so-called "dual eligibles." They are people who receive both Medicare, which is federal insurance, and Medicaid, the state-and-federally funded insurance.
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Los Angeles Times
Somewhere in California, one child's medical expenses in 2014 totaled $21 million — a bill covered entirely by Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid. The child’s condition is not known. But the cost of care was mentioned in recent Twitter and Facebook posts by Jennifer Kent, head of the state Department of Health Care Services, which runs Medi-Cal.
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Detroit Free Press
The expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased Michigan's Medicaid rolls by 29 percent from 1.9 million residents in April 2014 to 2.5 million residents in May 2017. Statewide, 1 out of 4 Michigan residents is enrolled in Medicaid.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
For all the uncertainty over the fate of a healthcare overhaul in Washington, tens of thousands of Montana's working poor are already in a double quandary: Even if Congress leaves Medicaid expansion mostly intact, the future of the state's program remains uncertain. Gov. Steve Bullock, who counts Medicaid expansion as a key achievement in his first term, has less than two years to justify its continuation. The program is scheduled to end in 2019 if state lawmakers decline to renew it during the legislative session that starts in January of that year.
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STAT
Federal law enforcement agencies announced Thursday what they called "the largest opioid-related fraud takedown in history" with the arrest of 120 people across the country, including doctors allegedly running pill mills and the operators of fraudulent treatment centers.
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Politico Pro (Subscription required)
CMS is proposing to pay doctors and hospitals less for certain physician-administered drugs purchased through the 340B pricing program, a move the agency says helps fulfill President Donald Trump's promise to lower the cost of medicines. The agency wants to lower the reimbursement rate it gives 340B hospitals for Medicare Part B patients so it's more in line with the price hospitals actually pay for the drugs.
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