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Title: It’s not Obamacare anymore. It’s our national health-care system. Author: Drew Altman and Larry Levitt

*Source:* Washington Post

*Date:* July 31, 2017

*Summary:* Republicans failed https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/the-night-john-mccain-killed-the-gops-health-care-fight/2017/07/28/f5acce58-7361-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_scene-645a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.39889bbbf3ac to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act early Friday because of divisions within their own ranks, and because they tried not only to repeal and replace the ACA but also to cut and cap https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/26/its-official-the-senate-health-care-bill-is-about-cutting-medicaid/?utm_term=.935e4d384139 the Medicaid program, generating opposition from many red-state governors and their senators.

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