Affordable Care Act worries mount, UnitedHealth stumbles

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Feedback on Trump’s first major health care regulation

Hospitals, health insurers, and insurance agents are asking President Trump to pump the brakes on a regulation that would lead to potentially millions of people losing their health insurance.

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