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Constituents respond as Rep. Rod Blum, Iowa Republican, tries to reassure them about health care. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, shows the HealthCare.gov 2017 website home page on display, in Washington. Early moves by insurers in some states suggest another round of higher prices and limited choices will greet health insurance shoppers in markets around the country when they start searching for next year’s coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s public insurance exchanges. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Illustration on fixing health care by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, pauses while meeting with the media to discuss health care on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 9, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE – In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Cleveland police officers stand watch during an NBA basketball game between the Utah Jazz and Cleveland Cavaliers, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. A federal judge overseeing an agreement to overhaul Cleveland's police department has been asked not to require officers to wear body cameras while moonlighting, in a May 5, 2017, court filing by city attorneys. None of the 630 officers approved for secondary employment volunteered to wear body cameras while moonlighting as part of a proposed pilot program, according to the court filing. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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Rae Seaton challenges U.S. Rep. Rod Blum, R-Iowa, on his answer to her healthcare question during a town hall at Dubuque Senior High School in Dubuque, Iowa, on Monday, May 8, 2017. (Eileen Meslar/Telegraph Herald via AP)
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Inhabitants pass by rescue workers in Hannover-Vahrenfeld, northern Germany, Sunday, May 7, 2017 when 50,000 people have to leave their homes when an unexploded World War II bomb is defused. (Peter Steffen/dpa via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 file photo, demonstrators hold signs during a healthcare rally in Salt Lake City. Utah's all-Republican House delegation voted Thursday in favor of a health care overhaul that could impact people with pre-existing conditions, triggering serious worries from people who fit that category. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump, flanked by then-Commerce Secretary-designate Wilbur Ross, left, and Harley Davidson President and CEO Matt Levatich, talks to media before a lunch meeting with Harley Davidson executives and union representatives in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Trump says labor unions have an open door to his White House, but so far, he is holding it a little more ajar for some organizations than others. Trump has put out the welcome mat for the nations construction trades, with whom hes had relationships during decades of building office towers and hotels. Also invited in have been auto, steel and coal workers who backed him during the 2016 election. But theres been no White House invitation for other unions representing the nations sprawling _ but shrinking _ pool of 14.6 million workers who collectively bargain with employers in the labor movement. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by House GOP members, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, MAY 6, AND THEREAFTER – Dawn Varner, of Roaring Spring, Pa., labels rolls of paper April 27, 2017, at the Appvion Inc. paper mill in Roaring Spring, Pa. When the mill's France-based owners announced plans to sell their American subsidiary in 2001, employees nationwide pitched in to take control of the company by forming a worker-owned corporation now called Appvion Inc. During the Rust Belt's decades long manufacturing decline, cities have often managed to claw their way back to a growing economy, while towns with just one or two employers can remain desolate for decades. (Gary M. Baranec/Altoona Mirror via AP)
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FILE - In this March 13, 2017, file photo, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder speaks during a news conference in Detroit. Republican lawmakers' renewed push to do away with pensions for newly hired teachers will become a reality only if they can persuade a skeptical Snyder, the accountant-turned-governor whose number crunching has left him hesitant about the upfront cost of transitioning to 401(k) plans for future school employees. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer predicts the U.S. will have a single-payer health care within seven years. (Fox News screenshot)
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People look on during a healthcare rally Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Utah's all-Republican House delegation voted Thursday in favor of a health care overhaul that could impact people with pre-existing conditions, triggering serious worries from people who fit that category. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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People look on during a health care rally Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Utah's all-Republican House delegation voted Thursday in favor of a health care overhaul that could impact people with pre-existing conditions, triggering serious worries from people who fit that category. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, said he was enticed to support the Obamacare repeal bill with an additional $8 billion for health care risk pools. (Associated Press)
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Taiwanese workers hold placards with the words "Demand Protection for Elderly Lives" during a Labor Day rally in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, May 1, 2017. Thousands of protesters from various labor groups marked Labor Day, or May Day as it is observed elsewhere in the world. with demands for better conditions for workers. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) ** FILE **
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President Trump said he is confident that the Republican-led Senate will pass the health care bill. (Associated Press)
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Jake Martinez, 32, looks at his medication at his home Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Murray, Utah. Martinez, who has epilepsy, is worried about health insurance as Republicans move closer to dismantling the Obama health care system, known as the Affordable Care Act, which he and his wife use. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Jake Martinez, 32, holds his medication at his home Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Murray, Utah. Martinez, who has epilepsy, is worried about health insurance as Republicans move closer to dismantling the Obama health care system, known as the Affordable Care Act, which he and his wife use. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
