Fall Out From Failure May Haunt GOP: ‘I Don’t Think This Is Something Voters Are Going To Forget’
Republicans have been promising their voters repeal and replace for seven years. They may have to face the political consequences of not delivering.
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Republicans have been promising their voters repeal and replace for seven years. They may have to face the political consequences of not delivering.
A ruling party that never expected to win. A conservative base long primed to accept nothing less than a full repeal. An overpromising and often disengaged president with no command of the policy itself and little apparent interest in selling its merits to the public. These are just a few of the reasons experts cite on why the Republicans failed. The New York Times and other media organizations take a deep dive on what went wrong. (And in the case of Democrats -- what went right).
Among the provisions getting a look from a bipartisan working group are the employer mandate, creating a stability fund that states can tap to help deal with premiums and scrapping Obamacare’s medical-device tax.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, however, also said that the law was failing the American people and the goal is to put a system in place that works for patients.
President Donald Trump tweeted that unless Congress passes health care legislation, he'll end insurer subsidies, which would have a major impact on the individual marketplace. Meanwhile, that's just one action out of several that the Trump administration can take to undermine the Affordable Care Act.
President Donald Trump, following the defeat of the GOP health proposal, says Republicans looked "like fools" and should not give up on passing legislation.
Here's a review of editorials and opinions on a range of public health issues.
Editorial pages examine possible next steps in the health care debate, the importance of issue expertise, spiraling costs and the president's state of mind.
Opinion writers offer their analysis on what happened last week to the Senate Republican's repeal-and-replace effort -- examining some of the key strategy moves that went awry and highlighting some lessons that could be learned from the process.
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A man shot a doctor who refused to write a prescription for his wife, who has chronic pain, before killing himself. Police are still investigating. In other news on the national drug epidemic, Chicago is handing out overdose antidotes to at-risk inmates upon release, Philadelphia aims to clean up and shut down a notorious heroin camp and Ohio doctors are working to cut down on painkiller prescriptions.
Scientists are eyeing the invasive fungus warily. In other public health news: gonorrhea, autism, marijuana and DUIs, weight loss, contraception and more.
It will be the first time the government has gone beyond warning labels and taxes if the rule goes through.
The bill would extend the program for six months and devote $1.8 billion to authorize 28 leases for new Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities and establish programs to make it easier to hire health specialists.
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Here's a review of editorials and opinions on a range of public health issues.
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Media outlets report on news from Illinois, Ohio, California, Maryland, Florida, Texas, Massachusetts, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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