- In Major Defeat for Trump, Push to Repeal Health Law Fails New York Times by Robert Pear, Thomas Kaplan and Maggie Haberman—House Republican leaders, facing a revolt among conservatives and moderates in their ranks, pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor Friday in a major defeat for President Trump on the first legislative showdown of his presidency. "We're going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future," the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, conceded.
- Inside the GOP's Health Care Debacle: Eighteen Days That Shook the Republican Party—and Humbled a President Politico Magazine by Tim Alberta—Donald Trump had heard enough about policy and process. It was Thursday afternoon and members of the House Freedom Caucus were peppering the president with wonkish concerns about the American Health Care Act—the language that would leave Obamacare's "essential health benefits" in place, the community rating provision that limited what insurers could charge certain patients, and whether the next two steps of Speaker Paul Ryan's master plan were even feasible—when Trump decided to cut them off.
- Many Governors Welcome Demise of Gop Health Care Bill AP by Geoff Mulvihill—Governors of both parties had warned Congress for weeks that the Republican health care bill threatened to saddle their states with big costs and potentially leave millions of people without coverage, especially because of the cutbacks planned to Medicaid. The bill's withdrawal on Friday left in place the status quo under the Affordable Care Act. That was welcomed by several governors in the states that opted to expand Medicaid under former President Barack Obama's law.