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- WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday narrowly approved a bill to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act, as Republicans recovered from their earlier failures and moved a step closer to delivering their promise to reshape American health care without mandated insurance coverage.
The vote, 217-213, on President Trump’s 105th day in office, keeps alive the Republican dream to unwind the signature legislative achievement of former President Barack Obama.
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blackbootz · 2546 days ago · link ·
Wow. Some great lines in that article. The attack-ad hellscape. 2018 can't come soon enough? What are the odds this passes the senate?Democratic aides and members of Congress who spoke to The Daily Beast on Wednesday all had the same message: they don’t want House to keep any form of Trumpcare on life support, but if Republicans want to wade into the attack-ad hellscape of going on-record championing Zombie Trumpcare, “be our guest,” one progressive congressman said.