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The CEO of Connecticut's health insurance exchange says regardless of what happens with the Obamacare repeal effort in Washington, rates and plans have been set for 2018.

if Congress does not intervene, which could grow significantly if the latest Obamacare repeal effort is successful.

Comedian and late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel tackled the latest Obamacare repeal effort head - on during his opening monologue last night, arguing that the bill being pushed by Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy and others fails the so - called «Kimmel test» for people with pre-existing conditions — and that Cassidy «lied to [his] face» on the issue.

Yet even if the Obamacare repeal effort implodes, the threat to the industry won't entirely recede.

Kimmel has since actively railed against Obamacare repeal efforts, arguing that various proposals being debated by the law's opponents would gut protections for people like Billy born with pre-existing conditions, either by rolling back Obamacare's mandated insurance benefits for certain health conditions or allowing states to set up rules that would let insurers charge sick people more for their coverage.

Democrats minimized their celebrations today in the wake of the stunning implosion of the GOP's Obamacare repeal efforts, putting the onus on Republicans to embrace bipartisan fixes to the health care law.

It's a ratcheting up of rhetoric by Cuomo, who has vowed to help unseat Republican House lawmakers in New York who backed Obamacare repeal efforts, namely a provision that would shift the burden of Medicaid spending from county governments to the state.

Heller, who has complained that Obamacare repeal efforts could hurt Nevada residents dependent on Medicaid, nevertheless said he'd vote to move forward.

Not exact matches

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

And we heard a variation of that theme late last week from Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina Congressman and Freedom Caucuser who now heads the Office of Management and Budget — and who, importantly, has been one of the Trump Administration's key emissaries in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

But the saga of Republicans» efforts to repeal Obamacare isn't over yet.

This has been a tumultuous year for Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act), to put it lightly, with multiple efforts by the GOP - led Congress to repeal or otherwise gut the seven - year - old health law.

The president's signature campaign issue was «repeal and replace Obamacare» and to date, the effort has failed.

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

The case in point, of course, is Tea Party Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who spearheaded an effort to tie the GOP's campaign to repeal Obamacare to the process of renewing funding for the federal government.

«Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful,» McConnell said in a statement that sounded like a death knell to the GOP's promises to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something better.

The GOP Senate's efforts to repeal Obamacare with its own health care bill have been on the brink of defeat over the past 48 hours.

Trump lunched with critical Republican Senate caucus members in an effort to woo them to repeal Obamacare Wednesday.

But his plan is meeting the same internal Republican tensions between moderates and conservatives that have sunk his efforts this year to repeal the Obamacare health law.

The process behind crafting tax reform was quite different than the failed efforts to repeal Obamacare, Ryan tells CNBC.

While the agency spent much of 2017 focusing on the administration's efforts to repeal Obamacare, this past month CMS issued a series of new proposals aimed at promoting greater interoperability of digital health - care records.

An increasing number of GOP senators are insisting that a repeal effort be accompanied by a simultaneous replacement plan for Obamacare (more on that below), and President - elect Trump actually echoed that same sentiment this week.

With Republican efforts to «repeal and replace» Obamacare in legislative limbo, and with potentially enormous changes in federal budget outlays on the horizon, the outlook for healthcare policy is cloudier than it has been in years — adding yet another challenge to those who want to invest and innovate in this area.

b) We have a do - nothing, fractured Congress that won't address key issues like immigration or tax reform, but has wasted time and taxpayer money 65 + times in a futile effort to repeal Obamacare.

If conservatives can't change Obamacare's insurance rules, it could put the whole repeal - and - replace effort in jeopardy.

This is a predicament seven years in the making, since Republicans started swearing to repeal Obamacare as soon as they took control of the government, and it is one that the GOP has courted from the start of this year's repeal effort.

As with his efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump has left many of the details of the plan in the hands of congressional leadership.

The eleventh - hour attempt by Republicans in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act once seemed like the longest of long shots, but now appears to have a chance — albeit slim — at passage, even though it has been deemed the most «radical» of all the Obamacare reform efforts the GOP has debated thus far.

The effort aims to capture «health care voters» who would be motivated by the issue of repealing the ACA, commonly referred to as Obamacare.

Democrats will grind U.S. Senate business to a halt tonight in a protest against Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare.

But since taking office in January he has been shackled to the unpopular effort by Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare.

In his first on - camera remarks about the health care stalemate in the U.S. Senate, President Donald Trump said that Republicans should now «let ObamaCare fail» following the collapse of their effort to repeal and replace the law.

NYC Councilman Corey Johnson was among more than 150 protesters cuffed inside the U.S. Capitol yesterday while protesting the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare.

Earlier this year, he formed his own organization, Revere America, to gather signatures from across the country in an effort to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — which Republicans like to call «Obamacare.»

He says Cuomo and the legislature have already approved one new budget since President Trump was elected, and they've heard the promises of the Republican - dominated Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, an effort that has so far failed.

Cuomo cited looming cuts to Medicaid funding, the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare and escalating tensions with North Korea as other topics more deserving of the president's attention than the controversy over the NFL.

Democrats will grind Senate business to a halt in a protest against Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare.

Others have described it as a setback for the «repeal Obamacare» effort.

Trump's opponents should draw strength from the defeat of efforts to repeal Obamacare, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

WASHINGTON — Upstate New York voters strongly support Obamacare, and opposed last week's effort by Republicans in Congress to repeal the law, according to a new Siena College poll released this morning.

Former President Barack Obama attacked congressional Republicans for their renewed efforts to repeal his signature law, the Affordable Care Act, better know as Obamacare.

Trump announced he will be signing an executive order today to undermine Obamacare after efforts to repeal and replace it failed in Congress.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins hinted that she's unlikely to back the latest GOP effort to repeal ObamaCare, but admitted she hasn't yet made a final decision.

The National Association of Medicaid Directors spoke out against the GOP - led effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

New York lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans alike, say they are looking for bipartisan solutions now that the latest GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare has collapsed, but they are divided over how best to solve the problem.

New York state would take a $ 52 billion beating under the latest GOP effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare — the second - largest amount lost in the US, according to a new study released yesterday.

That's because in some markets with conservative - leaning districts, commercials aired praising some Republican House members for their efforts in repealing the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.

Following the defeat of the latest Republican - led effort to repeal «Obamacare» earlier this week, Congress and President Trump have pivoted to tax reform.

Bharara was looking into allegations that Tom Price, the health and human services secretary and the administration's point man on efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare, improperly traded health care stocks while he was a member of the House of Representatives, ProPublica reported.

The conference discussion comes as Democratic activists around the nation ramp up protests against Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare... Last weekend, conservative Rep. Tom McClintock (R - Calif.)