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    Obamacare: Texas court rules key health law is unconstitutional

    A federal judge in the US state of Texas has ruled that a key part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, is unconstitutional. Twenty states argued the whole law was invalidated by a change in tax rules last year which eliminated a penalty for not having health insurance...
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    Republican healthcare plan will cost 23 million people their coverage, CBO says

    The hastily redrawn Republican plan to overhaul Obamacare would leave an extra 23 million people without health insurance over the next decade, the first official independent analysis of the plan has found. The health reforms, forced through the House earlier this month and exuberantly...
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    Republican Blurts Out That Sick People Don’t Deserve Affordable Care

    Republicans usually defend their health care position with an array of buzzwords like choice, patient-centric, or competition. In a CNN interview, Representative Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican, makes the case for Trumpcare in much starker terms: it will free healthy people from having to pay...
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    New Version Of Obamacare Repeal Would Gut Pre-Existing Condition Guarantee

    Apparently yanking away the funds that allow millions of people to get health insurance isn’t enough for some House Republicans. Now they also want to gut the Affordable Care Act’s protection for people with pre-existing conditions. Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) on Tuesday formally unveiled an...
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    A half million Texans could be without insurance under GOP health care plan

    As many as a half-million Texans could become uninsured under the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, wiping out at least half the gains the state has made in reducing the number of uninsured residents in recent years, according to health care analysts. Texas still has the...
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    Obamacare-lite? Republicans' bill to replace Affordable Care Act explained

    Republicans in Congress have unveiled a bill to fulfil their long-held desire to scrap President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA). What is it? The America Health Care Act (AHCA) is a draft bill to cut back the government’s role in healthcare with a more market-orientated system. It seeks to...
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    She voted for Trump. Now she fears losing the Obamacare plan that saved her life

    Kathy Watson was anxious about her health coverage even before she woke up gasping for breath last month and drove herself to the emergency room with a flare-up in her heart condition. After struggling for years without insurance, the 55-year-old former small-business owner — who has battled...
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    Insurance companies take the lead on Obamacare replacement ideas

    If you want to know where Republicans find ideas to reform Obamacare, look no further than the private insurance companies. As Republicans struggle to unify around a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, and at the same time attempt to keep insurance companies in state marketplaces, health...
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    Vehement Obamacare critic Tom Price confirmed as US health secretary

    The US Senate has confirmed conservative Georgia representative Tom Price as Donald Trump’s health secretary, an appointment that suggests a radical shift in American healthcare over the next four years. In a late-night vote sharply divided along party lines, the 62-year-old former orthopedic...
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    Here's how 'Obamacare' covered Americans with pre-existing conditions. What happens next?

    One of the most popular parts of the Affordable Care Act guarantees health insurance for people with “pre-existing conditions” – medical problems such as HIV, Alzheimer’s disease, and epilepsy. Before the law took full effect in 2014, people with these conditions were routinely denied coverage...
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    Harvard doctors just revealed how many people will die from repealing Obamacare

    Two physicians with decades of experience studying death rates relating to changes in health coverage have concluded that repealing Obamacare is fatal. Drs. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, both professors of public health at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and...
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    ‘Save our health care’ residents chime during Rock Hill walk protesting Obamacare repeal

    Without the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, Fort Mill resident Amy Hilton Schuler said her uncle could die. Schuler, 43, said she and her uncle have type 1 diabetes and rely on insulin treatments. She said that without the ACA, her uncle, who has many other health...
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