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Trump vows 'insurance for everybody' in replacing Obamacare

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump aims to replace Obamacare with a plan that would envisage "insurance for everybody," he said in an interview with the Washington Post published on Sunday night.
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Publish Date:16/January/2017 | 04:36

GOP Embarks on Obamacare Repeal With No Agreement on Replacement

EghtesadOnline: Congressional Republicans completed the first step Friday toward their long-promised repeal of Obamacare , but now they face the much more difficult task of finding a way to unravel the massive health-care law and replace it.
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Publish Date:14/January/2017 | 05:26

Senate to act this week on Obamacare repeal, McConnell says

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday.
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Publish Date:09/January/2017 | 24:42

Obama says Sanders' supporters helped undermine Obamacare

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama said on Friday that criticism from the left wing of his own Democratic Party helped feed into the unpopularity of Obamacare , his signature healthcare reform law.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 15:19

Growing GOP Doubts Jeopardize Swift Obamacare Repeal in Senate

EghtesadOnline: A fourth Republican senator has voiced strong doubts about the party’s current strategy to repeal Obamacare without detailing a replacement, more than enough to scuttle efforts to deliver swiftly on a central promise from President-elect Donald Trump.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 05:08

Republicans make repealing Obamacare 'first order of business'

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama exhorted fellow Democrats on Wednesday to preserve his legacy-defining healthcare law as Republicans moved ahead with their long-sought bid to scrap it in what Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the "first order of business" of Donald Trump's administration.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 04:50

U.S. Republican senator introduces Obamacare repeal resolution

EghtesadOnline: Republican U.S. Senator Mike Enzi introduced on Tuesday a resolution allowing for the repeal of President Barack Obama's signature health insurance program, which provides coverage to millions of Americans, Enzi's office said in a statement.
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Publish Date:04/January/2017 | 05:06

U.S. judge blocks transgender, abortion-related Obamacare protections

EghtesadOnline: A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act to transgender health and abortion-related services.
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Publish Date:01/January/2017 | 05:20

Some Republicans see attacking Obamacare through regulation

EghtesadOnline: Congressional Republicans are looking for the quickest ways to tear down Obamacare following Donald Trump's election as U.S. president, including rapidly confirming a new health secretary who could recast regulations while waiting for lawmakers to pass sweeping repeal legislation.
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Publish Date:13/November/2016 | 04:40

Trump Now Wants to Keep Popular Obamacare Provisions, Scrap Rest

EghtesadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump reversed himself on completely eliminating the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health law, saying instead he would keep two popular features and pledged no gap in coverage as it’s replaced.
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Publish Date:12/November/2016 | 08:03

Trump Starts New Political Era as Republicans Claim Mandate

EghtesadOnline: In the hours after Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president of the U.S., Republicans in Congress claimed a mandate for their agenda to revamp financial rules and replace Obamacare , and Hillary Clinton urged her supporters to give him a chance to govern.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 24:08

Senate's McConnell says Obamacare repeal high on agenda

EghtesadOnline: Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said repealing the Obamacare health insurance system is a "pretty high item on our agenda" for the new Congress that was elected on Tuesday, calling it the "single worst piece of legislation" from the first two years of the Obama administration.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 07:38

Obama rallies Obamacare troops at 'critical time' for program

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama on Thursday urged more than 25,000 volunteers and advocates who dialed in to a White House conference call to pull out the stops to boost the number of people signing up for Obamacare health insurance plans.
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Publish Date:28/October/2016 | 15:29

More U.S. counties to see Obamacare marketplace monopoly: analysis

EghtesadOnline: Nearly a third of U.S. counties will likely be served by only one insurer that participates in an Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace in 2017, according to an analysis published Sunday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Publish Date:29/August/2016 | 06:28

Clinton Win Could Pressure GOP to Heal, Not Repeal, Obamacare

EghtesadOnline: Republicans in Congress have insisted the only way to fix Obamacare is to repeal it. But with Barack Obama about to leave the White House, several Republicans sound willing to tweak it rather than kill it.
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Publish Date:24/August/2016 | 10:07

Trump Makes Tweeted Threat to End Obamacare Insurance ‘Bailouts’

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump threatened to end key Affordable Care Act subsidies to health insurance companies that help make insurance accessible to poorer Americans, a move that may critically destabilize health exchanges if it went ahead.
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Publish Date:30/July/2017 | 05:00

Senate advances on healthcare, with dramatic return by McCain

EghtesadOnline: U.S. Senate Republicans narrowly agreed on Tuesday to open debate on a bill to end Obamacare , but the party's seven-year effort to roll back Democratic President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law still faces significant hurdles.
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Publish Date:26/July/2017 | 05:22