Will the affordable care act be repealed?

On the trail, Jones firmly opposed efforts to end the ACA and said that even in deep-red Alabama, voters had moved on. “Repeal and replace is a political slogan,” Jones said this month. “It's not something that's workable.” Jones's arrival will allow just two Republicans in the Senate to block any repeal bill. read more

The Republican Congress and the incoming Trump administration opened 2017 by trying to decide how -- and how quickly -- to repeal President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. What path lawmakers take on repealing and replacing the law will determine the impact on the American public. read more

Those four committees would have just a few weeks, until Jan. 27, to produce legislation repealing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans have some practice at this, because they have voted more than 60 times since 2011 to repeal some or all of the law. read more

The repeal is expected to pass the Republican-led House only to die in the Democratic-led Senate, thus making the vote largely a political statement rather than a realistic stab at changing policy. Nevertheless, the vote will keep the debate around the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, at the forefront of the national political discourse, as it has been since well before the Supreme Court decision. read more