The Senate's sickening health care fiasco
The long-cherished Republican dream of repealing and replacing Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been dashed on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Late Thursday night, after weeks of trying and failing, Senate Republicans thought they would be able to eke out a majority vote for legislation that would have partially repealed the ACA--even though a number of Republicans said publicly that the measure was so inadequate they didn't want it to become law.
But in a dramatic last-minute twist, John McCain cast the deciding vote for a 49 to 51 defeat of the Republicans' last real hope of keeping their anti-ACA crusade alive, at least for now.
Ironically, McCain had returned to Washington two days before from treatment for brain cancer to cast the deciding vote to open debate on health care legislation, giving Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a reason to hope that victory in some form was at hand.
Read more: https://socialistworker.org/2017/07/28/the-senates-sickening-health-care-fiasco
= new reply since forum marked as read
