The Senate's new Better Care Reconciliation Act bill mightfail, but it could still pass.

Republicans hold just 52 seats in the Senate. Senate MajorityLeader Mitch McConnell is struggling to get more conservative andmore moderate Republicans to unite behind the version of theAffordable Care Act change bill released Thursday. At press time,at least eight Republican senators were publicly expressingskepticism about the idea of voting for the bill.

In the past, however, backers of other health bills have facedsimilar problems with rounding up votes and triumphed.

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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.

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