House Republican leaders' inability to get an Affordable Care Act change bill to the House floor today could increase the likelihood that the ACA will survive in its current form, or that Democrats and Republicans will have to work together to develop a bipartisan replacement.
House leaders had planned to get some version of H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act bill, up on the floor for a vote today.
Instead, lengthy negotiations between House leaders and members of the Freedom Caucus, a House Republican group, pushed Republican leaders to put the House in recess. At press time, House members who wanted to vote had stay close to the House, because resumption of proceedings was "subject to the call of the chair," and could happen at any time from press time until Monday.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
