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Obamacare's dead. Long live Obamacare.

Hello again, I'm Orinaldi, and this is To the Point. After seven years of promises and control of the White House and Congress,

Republicans are still struggling to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The latest efforts alive for the moment, but no votes by three GOP senators are likely to kill it before time

runs out at midnight on Friday. The Graham Cassidy bill named for its authors is so radical,

many Republican state insurance commissioners are dead set against it.

Even senators who vote for it admit it's more about politics than health care.

We'll get a progress report.

Later on today's talking point, the vote for independence, a dream for beleaguered Iraqi Kurds, and a nightmare for Iraq and its neighbors.

First, here's the news.

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Hello again, Mormon. I'll be back with To The Point. Just four days remain for the latest Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, and it seems doomed for failure.

If so, it's a dramatic ending on Capitol Hill, as we'll hear on today's program.

On our talking point later, bye-bye Iraq.

That's the chant of Iraq's Kurdish minority after their vote for independence yesterday

escalated historic tension in that country and in Iran and Turkey.

The referendum's been called illegitimate, but Kurdish leaders went ahead anyway based on success in driving

ISIS out of oil-rich territory. We'll get a report from the region called Kurdistan. First, this news

update. The latest casualty at Equifax is longtime CEO Richard Smith, who's resigned in the company's

best interests. The credit reporting company suffered one of history's biggest cyber attacks

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