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WASHINGTON - The Trump Administration told congressional leaders it'll still fund ObamaCare subsidies inside a move that greatly lessens the probabilities for a government shutdown. Two Democratic congressional sources said President Trump is no longer threatening to withhold the instalments - worth about $7 billion a year - so he...

The share people firms that don't provide medical health insurance spiked this year, to nearly 55 percent. After the coming year, many New York firms may have to join them - or risk downsizing. Thanks to some 2012 state law, many mid-sized firms - individuals with between 51 and 100...

Dear John: I saw the product in your Sunday column from the reader who wrote concerning the tax paid on a recent surgery at NYU hospital and wanted to supply you - as well as your readers - with a few additional information. A 20-year-old New York law referred to...

President Trump’s remark the next Republican effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare will be an “easy one” came during a “lighthearted moment,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Wednesday.”“It had been a lighthearted moment. It was on tape. Trying to make it seem like he was utterly serious is...

WASHINGTON - The White House and House Republicans are continuing focus on replacing ObamaCare regardless of the embarrassing failure last week to pass through a brand new healthcare bill. House Republicans huddled Tuesday for the first time since having to pull their GOP healthcare plan Friday for any insufficient votes....

President Trump’s son Eric channeled singer Kenny Rogers to praise his father’s actions throughout the health care debate, saying business owners “know when you should hold their cards and know when to fold their cards.” Eric Trump said his father was right to leave behind the home plan to repeal...

Who's the reason for the failure from the Republican bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare? Who cares? What matters now's that Democrats stop gloating, Republicans stop sulking and every party come to the table to improve any adverse health care system that both sides agree needs work. After the bill...

From the Left: GOP Health Bill Deserved to Fail The failure of the GOP's health-care bill is not as complicated as it might seem from all the "insider" accounts, writes Harold Pollack at Politico: "This would be a failure of policy and legislative strategy . . . not of tactics."...

Security desk: Comey Now DC's Most effective Man James Comey has emerged as "the most powerful person in Washington," contends Eli Lake at Bloomberg, for one simple reason: "The director from the FBI will in a practical sense determine the legitimacy of our elected president." And that's "the real dilemma...

Support among American voters for that Republican health care plan is falling as the measure comes up for a key vote in the home, a poll released Wednesday shows. Thirty-seven percent disapprove of the American Health Care Act – a 2 percentage point increase in the last poll – and...