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In the Wake of the ACA Repeal Failure, What’s Next for Federal Healthcare Policy?

Healthcare Informatics: When, after 18 days, the Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives pulled off the floor of the House the Affordable Health Care Act (AHC)A), designed to replace portions of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA), passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in March 2010, the action by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) on Friday afternoon, March 24, represented the dramatic conclusion to days of Capitol Hill drama.

Speaker Ryan, noting that Republicans lacked the votes to pass his bill out of the House and into the U.S. Senate, on Friday stated that it was clear that the bill lacked the support from within the Republican Party to pass, and thus, that House Republicans were giving up for the time being.

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