WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans, who for years blasted the Affordable Care Act for disrupting Americans' health care, are now pushing changes that threaten to not only strip health coverage from millions, but also upend insurance markets, cripple state budgets and drive medical clinics and hospitals to the breaking point.

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LOS ANGELES--To illustrate why she believes everyone should have access to comprehensive health care, Rep. Maxine Waters said she and her 12 siblings never saw a physician or a dentist their entire childhood.

"I was born at home in St. Louis back in the day when it was hard for minorities to get into hospitals," she said.

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WASHINGTON -- Insurers are fretting about the Senate Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act because it would repeal the individual mandate but -- unlike the House bill -- not provide an incentive for people to retain coverage.

Abolishing the health care law's mandate with no penalty for coverage lapses would destabilize the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dean Heller came out in opposition Friday to draft legislation released Thursday that would overhaul the U.S. health insurance system.

"This bill that's currently in front of the United States Senate is not the answer. It's simply not the answer. In this form, I will not support it," the Nevada Republican said at a news ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump called four conservative holdouts who could wreck Senate Republican leaders' health care bill "good guys," saying there is a "narrow path" to win their support and pass the measure.

Hours after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other GOP leaders briefed senators on then released a "discussion draft...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are in for a rough, if not impossible time passing their latest health care plan to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.

A draft carefully crafted in secret and designed to appeal to the GOP's conservative right and moderate wings managed to do neither when its details were finally ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Now that Senate Republicans have unveiled their health care bill, the party looks to corral its more skeptical members who feel the legislation doesn't do away with enough provisions created under the Affordable Care Act.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can only afford to lose two Republican votes if he's is going to get ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a sweeping draft bill to roll back the Affordable Care Act, including a drastic reduction in federal health care spending that threatens to leave millions more Americans uninsured.

The legislative outline, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's team wrote largely behind closed doors,...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Senate health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act would likely cause millions of Americans to lose their Medicaid and private insurance marketplace coverage. It also could make coverage more expensive for many sicker, older and low-income individuals.

The closely guarded draft of the Senate legislation was released ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's first public reaction to the Senate's draft health care bill was to call it the starting point for more discussion.

"A little negotiation, but it's going to be very good," the president told reporters at an unrelated White House event in the East Room on Thursday, when asked if it had "enough heart."

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