Modern Healthcare July 18, 2017
In less than 14 hours, Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to hold a repeal-and-delay vote on Obamacare died. Three of the five female Republican senators said they would not agree to open debate on a bill that would cut off subsidies for low- and moderate-income buyers in the individual market and end the Medicaid expansion. With that, the Senate’s effort to repeal Obamacare without a replacement lacked majority support, even with an assist from the vice president.
“As I have said before, I did not come to Washington to hurt people,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said as she refused to support McConnell’s “Plan C” to end Obamacare.
This was McConnell’s third attempt to make a seven-year campaign promise...
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