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The Washington Post
It was the most dramatic night in the United States Senate in recent history. Just ask the senators who witnessed it. A seven-year quest to undo the Affordable Care Act collapsed — at least for now — as Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) kept his colleagues and the press corps in suspense over a little more than two hours late Thursday into early Friday.
Not since September 2008, when the House of Representatives rejected the Troubled Asset Relief Program — causing the Dow Jones industrial average to plunge nearly 800 points in a single afternoon — had such an unexpected vote caused such a striking twist.
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Los Angeles Times
The dramatic collapse of Senate legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act may not end the Republican dream of rolling back the 2010 healthcare law. But it lay bare a reality that will impede any GOP effort to sustain the repeal campaign: Americans, though ambivalent about Obamacare in general, don't want to give up the law's landmark health protections.
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USA Today
Bill Rairigh had a high health insurance premium and a $20,000 hospital bill after he had a heart attack in 2007. Then he lost his insurance altogether because of his heart condition. The Affordable Care Act meant he could get insurance again, and at about half the price of his previous premium with only a $300 deductible. When the Senate narrowly rejected a plan to repeal portions of the ACA early Friday, Rairigh, of Macy, Indiana, was relieved.
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Politico
Senate Republicans have no plans to revive their party-line attempts to repeal Obamacare this summer, despite President Donald Trump's increasing frustration over the chamber's failed attempts last week to gut the law. Trump over the weekend taunted his own party's slim majority, saying on Twitter they'd look like "fools" and "total quitters" if they abandon the healthcare push. But GOP senators appear unmoved.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
The apparent demise of the Republican drive to scrap the Affordable Care Act may open the door to bipartisan fixes to the law. If it does, some of the proposals being touted by a bipartisan group of governors may get a hearing on Capitol Hill. The seven Democrats and six Republican governors who crafted the proposals want federal money to stabilize the ACA's health insurance marketplaces, and greater power to manage them. They argue it should be easier for states to customize Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance for the poor, and they want new tools to curb fast-rising drug prices. And they insist that states should continue to regulate the health policies sold within their borders.
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STAT
The Republican healthcare bill, at least for now, is dead. So what happens next? Senate Republicans have already announced plans to pivot to legislation that would repeal much of the Affordable Care Act without spelling out a replacement plan, after two additional GOP senators defected from the party's controversial plan to simultaneously repeal and replace parts of the law. President Donald Trump, too, tweeted his support for that approach.
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Kaiser Health News
Millions depend on the federal-state program's growing support of home-based care services — including 2 million elderly or disabled Americans who rely on them to live at home for as long as possible. However, that crucial help could face severe cuts if congressional Republicans eventually succeed in their push to sharply reduce federal Medicaid funds to states.
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Kaiser Health News
After the Senate fell short in its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is poised to use its regulatory powers to accomplish what lawmakers could not — shrink Medicaid. President Donald Trump's top health officials could engineer lower enrollment in the state-federal health insurance program by approving applications from several GOP-controlled states eager to control fast-rising Medicaid budgets.
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CNN
The White House panel examining the nation's opioid epidemic has told President Trump to declare a national public health emergency to combat the ongoing crisis. "Our citizens are dying. We must act boldly to stop it," the commission, headed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, said in an interim report Monday. "The first and most urgent recommendation of this Commission is direct and completely within your control. Declare a national emergency."
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The Hill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) will unveil a new rule forcing pharmaceutical companies to set reasonable prices for drugs developed using research funded by federal research dollars, The Huffington Post reported Monday. The rule — an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act — is Sanders' newest attempt to block pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur from receiving a license to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus with the U.S. Army.
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