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In this Feb. 16, 2017, photo, police Sgt. Mike Braley, left, talks with Parker O'Neall, a homeless man living in the woods in the outskirts of Everett, Wash. Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson has spent thousands to clean up streets, hire social workers to ride along with police officers and build permanent housing for the chronically homeless, many with addiction problems. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this Feb. 16, 2017, photo, Parker O'Neall, a homeless man living in a shelter of tarps in an encampment in the outskirts of Everett, Wash., rubs his face as he talks with police and social workers checking on him. As overdose deaths from opioids and heroin spiked the mayor of Everett took steps to tackle the epidemic devastating this working-class city north of Seattle. Mayor Ray Stephanson has spent thousands to clean up streets, hire social workers to ride along with police officers and build permanent housing for the chronically homeless. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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The federal government has a standing commitment to cover health care and pensions for retired miners. (Associated Press/File)
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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting on healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting on healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Workers man a call center in the southwestern U.S. (AP file photo)
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Participants of a strike organized by the German ver.di union walk past travelers queuing in front of a booking change counter at the Tegel airport in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 13, 2017. The union, representing airport ground staff, has called on its members to go on strike again at Berlin's two airports Tegel and Schoenefeld. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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Hospitals are worried that their bottom lines will suffer under revisions to America's health care system, and also that Republicans may also put at risk advances health professionals have made in combatting the ongoing opioid epidemic. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. President Donald Trump and Republican leaders say drastic action is needed because “Obamacare” is a disaster, with soaring premiums and insurers headed for the exits. But while major parts of the 2010 health care law are clearly troubled, others are working fairly well. The risk is that the GOP’s “rescue mission” will inflict collateral damage on what’s working and create new problems. Or that promised solutions might disappoint. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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The HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington, in this Feb. 9, 2017, file photo. President Donald Trump and Republican leaders say drastic action is needed because “Obamacare” is a disaster, with soaring premiums and insurers headed for the exits. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Padma Lakshmi speaks during a meeting called "The Resistance Training" hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union, Saturday, March 11, 2017, in Coral Gables, Fla. (Luis M. Alvarez) ** FILE **
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American Civil Liberties Union executive director Anthony Romero speaks during a meeting called "The Resistance Training" hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union, Saturday, March 11, 2017, in Coral Gables, Fla. The American Civil Liberties Union is launching a nationwide training event to make people aware of their rights as protesters. Organizers say the event Saturday at a sports arena on the University of Miami campus is being livestreamed to locations in all 50 states.(Luis M. Alvarez)
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2017, during a meeting on health care. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2017, during a meeting on healthcare. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**
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In this Feb. 13, 2017 photo, U.S. veteran Hector Barajas, who was deported, adjusts his beret in his office at the Deported Veterans Support House, nicknamed "the bunker," in Tijuana, Mexico. Barajas works putting U.S. veterans in touch with lawyers who help them receive pensions when possible, psychologists to help them overcome trauma and addiction, and job counseling programs. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2017 file photo, members of the airport ground staff stand at Schoenefeld airport in Berlin, during a warning strike. A union representing ground staff has called on its members to go on strike at Berlin's two airports and warned the walkouts might lead to delays and perhaps flight cancellations. The ver.di union says the strikes would begin Friday at 4 a.m. (0300 GMT) and end Saturday at 5 a.m. (0400 GMT) at the German capital's Tegel and Schoenefeld airports. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)
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House Speaker Paul Ryan vigorously talks up the American Health Care Act at Republican National Committee Headquarters. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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FILE - This is a Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016 file photo of people looking at the Icelandic parliament the Althing in Reykjavik. Iceland will be the first country in the world to make employers prove they offer equal pay regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality, the Nordic nation's government said on International Women's Day , Wednesday March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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Female workers from a Spanish trade union stand outside their main headquarters after a call for women to stop working for half an hour at noon to commemorate International Women's Day, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday presented the American Health Care Act, a proposed Obamacare replacement plan that he was confident the House would approve. (Associated Press)
