American Health Care Act of 2017

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The American Health Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1628), referred to by the acronym AHCA and nicknamed variously as Trumpcare,[1] Ryancare,[2] Republicare,[3] and pejoratively Obamacare-Lite,[4] is a United States Congress bill to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "Obamacare" (ACA).[5][6][7] It is based on a plan first publicly released by House Republicans on March 6, 2017, and the first part of what is a 3-phase plan to repeal the act.

Consideration of the bill was postponed on March 24, 2017, after it failed to gain enough House Republican support to pass it.[8][9] Towards the end of April 2017, Republicans began trying to revive the bill with the MacArthur Amendment, named after Representative Tom MacArthur of New Jersey.[10]

On May 4, 2017, the United States House of Representatives voted in favor of repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and passing the American Health Care Act with a narrow vote of 217 to 213, sending the bill to the Senate for a full majority vote.[11][5][6][12][13]

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  1. ↑ Zillman, Claire (March 14, 2017). "Trumpcare Could Signal the Beginning of the End for Guaranteed Maternity Coverage". Fortune.
  2. ↑ Bolling, Eric (March 14, 2017). "RyanCare is still ObamaCare. Here are five ways to start over". Fox News.
  3. ↑ Olmstead, Molly (2017-03-07). "Republicare Edition". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
  4. ↑ Newkirk, Vann R. II. "Is the GOP's Plan 'Obamacare Lite'? Not Quite". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-04-01.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kaplan, Thomas; Pear, Robert (May 4, 2017). "House Passes Measure to Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care Act". New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Sanger-Katz, Margot (May 4, 2017). "Who Wins and Who Loses in the Latest G.O.P. Health Care Bill". New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  7. ↑ The Editorial Board (May 4, 2017). "The Trumpcare Disaster". New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  8. ↑ Fram, Alan; Alonso-Zaldivar, Ricardo. "House Republicans, Short of Votes, Withdraw Health Care Bill". NBC Chicago.
  9. ↑ Jacobs, Ben; Smith, David (2017-03-24). "Republican repeal of Obamacare fails as healthcare bill pulled from House vote". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  10. ↑ Fox, Lauren; Mattingly, Phil; Luhby, Tami. "Republicans aim to revive health care with new amendment". CNN. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  11. ↑ "FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 256". house.gov. May 4, 2017.
  12. ↑ "House Republicans pass bill to repeal and replace Obamacare". CNN. May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Republican health care bill: What's in it?". Fox News. May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
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