Tuesday, July 18, 2017

SENATE HEALTHCARE BILL IS DEAD


"At the end of the day, a band of conservative GOP lawmakers thrust the final stake through the heart of the Senate's health care bill. But the saga of Republicans' efforts to repeal Obamacare isn't over yet.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday night confirmed what many had suspected—that even a revised version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), which would gut many Obamacare provisions and take a hacksaw to Medicaid, didn't have the support of the requisite 50 Republicans to pass.
Conservative Senators Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah joined with already-declared holdouts Rand Paul of Kentucky and moderate GOP-er Susan Collins of Maine to state their opposition in separate statements Monday."

~Fortune

Read More:
http://fortune.com/2017/07/18/health-care-bill-senate-dead-whats-next/

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