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  1. House Budget Vote Necessary, But Not Enough, in the GOP’s Tax Cut PlansThe GOP dissenters in the House’s vote on a budget resolution setting up tax cuts indicate some potential problems ahead for the GOP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. Tom Price Resigns as Health and Human Services SecretaryAfter reports emerged about his expensive private jet travel.
    By Benjamin Hart
  3. GOP Tax ‘Simplification’ Initiative So, So ComplicatedYou’d think a nice, modest, balanced tax cut would be easy for a GOP Congress and White House to execute. But the GOP keeps complicating it all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. the national circus
    Frank Rich: Roy Moore’s Victory Only Adds to Trump’s Power Over the GOPThe president may have backed the wrong guy in Alabama’s Senate race, but the revolution continues.
    By Frank Rich
  5. the national interest
    GOP’s Two-Pronged Strategy to Pass Health Care: Deceit and Reckless SpeedThe willingness to blindly unleash sweeping and potentially catastrophic changes is a testament to an ongoing ideological mania.
    By Jonathan Chait
  6. health care
    GOP Health Bill Now Includes More Blatant Bribes for Likely ‘No’ VotesThe new Graham-Cassidy is supposed to provide more money for Alaska and Maine, but policy experts say the Republicans’ math is wrong.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  7. Susan Collins Says It’s ‘Very Difficult’ to Imagine Supporting Graham-CassidyAnother bad sign for the bill’s prospects.
    By Benjamin Hart
  8. No One Wants the Latest Trumpcare Bill — Except Right-Wing BillionairesAnd for at least 48 Republican senators, that seems to be enough.
    By Eric Levitz
  9. health care
    Government’s Own Estimate Shows the GOP Health Bill Is a Disaster for AlaskaThe numbers undecided senator Lisa Murkowski wanted are in. They show Alaska losing 38 percent of its federal health funding by 2026.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  10. Trump Tweets Confirm He Doesn’t Understand What’s in the GOP Health BillHe said he wouldn’t sign Graham-Cassidy if it didn’t cover people with preexisting conditions. In reality, it’s likely that it won’t.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  11. health care
    GOP Senators Refuse to Let Bipartisan Opposition Kill Obamacare-Repeal DreamThey’re forging ahead with Graham-Cassidy, though governors from both parties, various medical groups, and Jimmy Kimmel all say it’s a terrible bill.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  12. 4 Ways Graham-Cassidy Would Make the Health-Care System Far WorseFrom cutting protections for preexisting conditions to drastically reducing federal health-care spending.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. Last-Ditch Obamacare Repeal Effort May Get a VoteHere we go again, again.
    By Benjamin Hart
  14. the national interest
    The Unconvincing, Cynical Case for BerniecareFlaking on the details and misleading people might not be a good way to improve their lives.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. The GOP Is Throwing a Hail Mary on Obamacare RepealIt will require speed and stealth, cooperation from CBO, and a rubber-stamp House vote, but the Graham-Cassidy bill has a slim chance of becoming law.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. Hold On – Could the GOP’s Last-Ditch Effort to Kill Obamacare Actually Pass?Some health-care experts are sounding the alarm, but it still looks like a long shot.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. Bernie Sanders’s Bill Gets America Zero Percent Closer to Single PayerWhat looks like a large step forward is actually a party edging closer to a cliff it has no intention of going over.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. Sanders’s Medicare-for-All Bill Is Missing Key Details, But That’s Not the PointFifteen top Democrats support the plan, which is currently more significant than Sanders’s failure to flesh out how single-payer would be paid for.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  19. Trump Takes His Sabotage of Obamacare to a New LevelIn his latest attempt to engineer a spike in premiums, Trump has (temporarily?) defunded Obamacare’s outreach groups.
    By Eric Levitz
  20. The Left Has Made Medicare for All a Mainstream, Democratic PolicyBut to make universal health care a reality, progressive activists are going to need to do a whole lot more than that.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. Obamacare Is Officially Not CollapsingWeeks ago, nearly 50 counties had no insurer selling Obamacare plans. Despite Trump’s many acts of sabotage, that number is now zero.
    By Eric Levitz
  22. Democrats’ New Health-Care Plan: Medicaid for All (Who Want It)Hawaii senator Brian Schatz is preparing a bill that would allow all Americans to buy into Medicaid, regardless of their income level.
    By Eric Levitz
  23. Scheme to Get Republicans a 53rd Senate Seat Collapses As Manchin Stays PutA rumored game of musical chairs had Perry going to DHS, Manchin to Energy, and a West Virginia Republican to the Senate. But in the end nobody moved.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. The Growing Battle Within the Progressive Left Over Medicare-for-AllDoubts about Medicare-for-All are arising on the left as well as the center, despite activist efforts to make support for it a litmus test.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. Trump Administration Offers Insurers Pointless Obamacare Deadline ExtensionWe still don’t know if Trump plans to sabotage Obamacare, which is what’s driving up 2018 premiums.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  26. The State of Obamacare in 2018 Remains Uncertain, Mostly Thanks to RepublicansTheir unsuccessful effort to gut the Affordable Care Act spooked insurers and helped drive up premiums for next year.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  27. Forget ‘Tax Reform.’ Republicans Will Settle for Tax Cuts for the Rich.For all the talk of “tax reform,” Republicans would prefer to offset tax cuts with spending cuts, and in the end won’t insist on offsets at all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. GOP Struggles to Secure a ‘Clean’ Debt-Limit IncreaseIn theory everybody in Congress favors a straightforward debt-limit increase. But side deals and other complications loom large.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. All the Scary Deadlines Congress Is Facing This FallAfter repeatedly pushing off major undertakings like tax reform and raising the debt ceiling, they’re in for a truly hellish fall.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  30. The GOP Health-Care Bill Was a Mess. The GOP’s Tax and Budget Plans Are Messier.The GOP’s plans to use the budget process for health-care and tax legislation are already half-ruined. The worst could be yet to come.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. As Trump Threatens Obamacare, Bipartisan Group of House Members Plots a FixThe Problem Solvers caucus is set to unveil a plan to stabilize Obamacare.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  32. Fox Host Mocks the Very Idea of Health InsuranceBrian Kilmeade says the same dumb thing Paul Ryan said a few months ago.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  33. ‘Skinny Repeal’ Dies in Shocking Early-Morning Senate VoteThree Republicans — Susan Collins, John McCain, and Lisa Murkowski — voted against the bill.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  34. House Tells Senate to Fix Their Awful Health Bill, Rejects Their SolutionThey assumed McConnell would find a better way to repeal and replace Obamacare. Now they’re complaining about his methods.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. Governors Blast ‘Skinny Repeal.’ Could That Cost the GOP a Key Senate Vote?Senator Heller suggested he’d stand by Nevada’s Republican governor, coming out against the Senate bill.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  36. Senate Democrats Call BS on the GOP’s Devious Health-Care DebateKnowing McConnell plans to unveil a new health-care bill at the 11th hour, Schumer won’t push amendments to legislation the GOP has already abandoned.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. 7 Senate Republicans Help Kill GOP’s Obamacare Repeal BillA second major GOP Obamacare repeal bill, the one Congress passed in 2015, was handily defeated by the Senate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. Senate Is Rejecting Two Years’ Worth of GOP Health-Care PolicyThe GOP-controlled Senate is rejecting its own rhetoric on health care.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. mavericks
    McCain Didn’t Really Vote for a Bill He Attacked. His ‘Yes’ Was Still Bizarre.Technically, the vote wasn’t about the legislation itself — but it was about advancing the irregular Senate process he so passionately decried.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  40. First GOP Health Bill Fails, But the Senate Push to Destroy Obamacare ContinuesNine Republicans voted against the bill McConnell crafted in secret, but they may wind up supporting whatever he comes up with next.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  41. A Look at the Procedural Madness of the Senate Health-Care DebateThe process is arcane; the outcome, unpredictable.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. ‘Skinny Repeal’ Could Be Final Effort to Sell Trumpcare — Whatever Trumpcare IsThe GOP figures out new ways to delay making painful decisions about health-care policy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. John McCain Is Returning to the Senate, Probably to Help Destroy ObamacareHis return on Tuesday, following surgery and a diagnosis of brain cancer, shows Republicans think they’re close to reviving their health-care bill.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  44. McConnell Schedules Leap-Into-the-Unknown Health-Care Vote for TuesdayIt could be a bluff, or McConnell may have something up his sleeve, but at this point, it seems he’s planning a vote he’ll probably lose.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. Obamacare and the Limits of PropagandaRepublicans’ extremism on health care has had a surprising effect.
    By Benjamin Hart
  46. Talking to the Former CBO Director About the Health-Care FightDoug Elmendorf, who oversaw the CBO during the battle over Obamacare, on how the agency operates.
    By Lily Carollo
  47. the law
    Somebody Should Sue the Hell Out of Donald Trump If He Lets Obamacare CollapseRepublicans took Obama to court over the president’s duty to “take care that laws be faithfully executed.” Democrats should do the same.
    By Cristian Farias
  48. Why Did Mitch McConnell Fail, and What’s Next for Health Care?A former staffer for now-retired Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on the Trumpcare debacle.
    By Lily Carollo
  49. Now What? Democrats Must Decide How to Exploit the Collapse of Trumpcare.Democrats could go small or big or refuse cooperation at all. But the party needs a strategy to deal with its sudden leverage over health-care policy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. Who’s to Blame for the GOP Health-Care Debacle, Trump or McConnell?Trump said, “I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it,” but somebody has to.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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