Health care: What's next for GOP?

Pressure on for delivering final product after repeal of Obamacare

In this Jan. 5 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. holds his copy of insurance premium statistics during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan urged the GOP-controlled House to pass a critical first step toward delivering relief from President Barack Obama's signature health care law as the chamber steamed ahead on legislation that is the first step toward repealing it and replacing it with something else. - photo by Associated Press

w health — In this Jan. 5 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. holds his copy of insurance premium statistics during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan urged the GOP-controlled House to pass a critical first step toward delivering relief from President Barack Obama's signature health care law as the chamber steamed ahead on legislation that is the first step toward repealing it and replacing it with something else. - photo by Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Republicans have won a gateway victory in Congress in their seven-year trek toward scuttling President Barack Obama's health care law. Now with Donald Trump a week from taking the presidential oath, achieving that goal is possible, but the pressure is on for them to deliver a final product. With a near party-line 227-198 House vote, Congress gave final approval Friday to a budget that will ease passage of a still-unwritten bill replacing Obama's overhaul with a GOP edition.

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