Zombie Health Care Bill Not Dead (WaPo link)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/5-reasons-why-health-care-bill-would-fail-3-why-it-may-not/2017/07/23/32bc4c22-6f9f-11e7-8c17-533c52b2f014_story.html?utm_term=.5df3f6d654a2
By Alan Fram?|?AP July 23 at 8:05 AM
WASHINGTON There are many reasons why the Senate will probably reject Republicans crowning bill razing much of former President Barack Obamas health care law. There are fewer why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might revive it and avert a GOP humiliation.
Leaders say the Senate will vote Tuesday on their health care legislation. Theyve postponed votes twice because too many Republicans were poised to vote no. That could happen again.
The latest bill by McConnell, R-Ky. and it could change anew would end penalties Democrat Obamas health care law slapped on people without insurance, and on larger companies not offering coverage to workers. It would erase requirements that insurers cover specified medical services, cut the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor and shrink subsidies for many consumers.
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