Senate Republicans gave up on their last-ditch proposal to repeal Obamacare Tuesday as opposition in their own ranks ended months of fruitless efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act.
With several senators expressing severe doubts or outright opposition to the version released last week, its unclear that the revisions will win enough support to resuscitate the repeal effort.
A number of Republicans are jumping on board a proposal by Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana to replace the Affordable Care Acts insurance subsidies with block grants to states.
President Donald Trump slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Twitter for the second day in a row Thursday over the failure of Congress to overhaul the nations health-care system, escalating a war of words with the key Republican.
Republicans say this weeks health care debate may ultimately lead to a bare-bones bill that merely ends the mandate that all have insurance or pay a penalty.
Senate Republicans agreed to begin floor debate on health-care legislation, a hard-fought step amid uncertainty about exactly what plan senators will ultimately be asked to vote on.
Several key Republican holdouts on health-care legislation said they will vote to begin debate Tuesday afternoon, even though senators dont know exactly where the legislation will end up.
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