Conservatives have long advocated for using association health plans to boost competition. But the result could be that healthy people pay less and sicker people are priced out of coverage.
"Affordable Care Act"
Even with repeal bill dead, Murkowski still not a firm ‘yes’ or ‘no’
The latest Senate effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act is dead. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday canceled a planned vote after too many Republicans declared they would not support the Graham-Cassidy bill.
Republicans scrap health care vote — again, Trump blasts ‘so-called Republicans’
Republicans conceded that their latest Obamacare repeal-and-replace push does not have the votes. It’s yet another embarrassment for GOP leadership and President Trump.
ACA repeal bill now peppered with Alaska money to draw Murkowski
Proponents of repealing the Affordable Care Act revealed yet another new bill Monday, with changes that appear designed to win the vote of U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of three Republicans who killed the last repeal bill.
3 GOP senators oppose Graham-Cassidy, effectively blocking health care bill
Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she’ll vote no on the latest push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. That once again leaves the GOP short of the votes they need to pass a health care bill.
McCain announces opposition to Obamacare repeal bill, possibly dooming it
Arizona Sen. John McCain is the second Republican to oppose the legislation, after Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul came out against it last week. If one more GOP senator is against the bill, it cannot pass.
Gov. Walker cites uncertainty over funding in opposing ACA repeal
Walker said he has spoken several times with U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, whose vote could help determine the bill’s fate.
Murkowski could swing Senate for latest ACA repeal
Defenders of the Obama health care law are applying as much pressure as they can to get U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski to vote no on the latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and Tuesday, all eyes were on Murkowski at the Capitol.
U.S. Senators aim for ACA fixes, Murkowski-style
A U.S. Senate committee met Wednesday to figure out what to do about health care. The hearing was open and bipartisan, just the process U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was calling for when she cast a key vote against the repeal-and-replace plan Republican leaders drafted behind closed doors. But time is short.
Potential initiatives would enshrine Medicaid expansion, ACA provisions in state law
One initiative would require insurers to cover people with pre-existing conditions. It also would allow parents to cover their children until they turn 26.