Now that the GOP health care replacement effort has failed, the blame game has begun.

The National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project says the failure of the U.S. Senate to reach a consensus on the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Actis the fault of the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

The conservative shareholder activist organization contends those industries worked to promote and craft the 2010 law “to benefit their bottom lines,” but now that the ACA exchanges are struggling, the businesses “can't be bothered to promote policies that would benefit the American people.”

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Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.