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"Ask each of the 242 House Republicans what kind of health policy they'd like to enact instead of President Barack Obama's health care reform law and you might get 242 different answers. Even after three years of railing against Obama's plan, Republicans have coalesced around only a few basic tenets of health policy -- let alone a full replacement plan." They are even divided over whether some of the popular pieces of Obama's health law are a good idea. For example, most Republicans support the health law's requirement that insurance companies accept all applicants -- but the replacement plan put forward by the most prominent Republican ignores that idea.

"It's a terrible idea," Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the sponsor of the plan, told POLITICO. He said Democrats only enacted the provision in order to require exactly what kinds of insurance Americans must have...
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