Headline Check: House Passage of GOP Health Care Bill

Muted tones, mostly

In a 217-213 vote, the House of Representatives passed a health care bill today that makes good on their intent to repeal and replace (parts) of the Affordable Care Act. The bill, which passed with zero Democrats voting for it, will now head to the Senate.

We’ll leave it to the policy experts to explain the bill’s future, as well as the implications should it become law. For our purposes, we’re concerned with how different news outlets handled the language around this bill in their headlines, language that is almost inescapably political, where even the choice of a more muted headline could be seen as a political choice.

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