Links for 03/08/17

by Michael Sean Winters

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In the Washington Post, a good comparison of the House GOP health care bill and the Affordable Care Act. It may be too soon to offer a prediction about how this will all play out, but it is more than curious that the rural hospitals already having a hard time keeping their doors open are likely to find that task even harder under the GOP dispensation. I wonder where all those Trump voters will go when they need health care? 

At RNS, Mark Silk still discerns problems with the revised executive order banning refugees but thinks it may pass constitutional muster this time. 

At Politico, a report on some of the difficult politics the GOP House bill faces: The never shy Sen. Rand Paul, who is not up for reelection until 2022, doesn't sound like he can be put in the "persuable column."

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