Doctors Make the Case for Obamacare or Something Like It

NBC News -HEALTH- Maggie Fox -FEB 2 2017, 6:20 PM ET Congress should improve Obamacare without taking away what's best about it, doctors said Thursday. Doctors who treat women and…

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Showing panic over Obamacare repeal, GOP senators release replacement plan that (almost) makes sense

LA Times - Michael Hiltzik - January 24,2017 2;25pm If you’re following the health insurance debate—and since the coverage of more than 20 million Americans is under threat from the…

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How Large Employer Health Plans Could Be Affected By Obamacare Overhaul

Kaiser Health News- January 19, 2017 5:00 AM ET MICHELLE ANDREWS If you think that you wouldn't be touched by a Republican overhaul of Obamacare because you get health insurance through…

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Senate Takes First Step To Repeal Obamacare — So What’s Next?

NPR -January 12, 20175:04 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition - Danielle Kurtzleben / Alisa Chang -With reporting from Susan Davis. At about 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Republicans moved one…

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Obamacare: Five Things You May Not Know About the Health Care Law

NBC NEWS MAGGIE FOX DEC 30 2016, 10:11 AM ET As Republicans prepare to take over the White House and both houses of Congress next month, they've got President Barack…

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Obamacare 2017 enrollment hits record, despite Trump’s threat to repeal

Will Obamacare survive?   CNN Money by Tami Luhby @Luhby December 21, 2016: 5:19 PM ET Although President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to repeal Obamacare next month, a record number…

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42 States Extend Deadline to Sign Up For Obamacare

GIZMODO- Eve Peyser- 12.16.16- 11:27pm On Thursday night, federal regulators announced that they were extending the midnight deadline to sign up for health insurance starting January 1, 2017 through the Affordable…

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Study: ‘Obamacare’ Repeal-Only Would Make 30M Uninsured

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Dec 7, 2016, 2:03 PM ET Repealing President Barack Obama's health care law without a replacement risks making nearly 30 million people uninsured,…

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Why Obamacare Might Not Die So Quickly

The law was enormously difficult for Democrats to pass, and Republicans are discovering it might be just as hard to repeal. The Atlantic- RUSSELL BERMAN 4:50 AM ET 12.2.16 Don’t…

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Planned Medicaid Overhaul Could Put GOP Governors in an Awkward Spot

Wall Street Journal -By STEPHANIE ARMOUR Nov. 24, 2016 8:00 a.m. ET WASHINGTON—Republicans set on rapidly dismantling the Affordable Care Act are also pushing an overhaul of Medicaid, whose expansion…

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