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Health care news is moving fast these days — really, really fast.

Republicans kicked off this year by introducing a plan to replace Obamacare. Conservative groups howled at it, doctors rejected it, analysts said it could kick millions off insurance rolls, and House legislators ultimately gave up on it. That was all in the first three months of 2017.

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