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A growing number of senators are ignoring President Trumps demands to try yet again to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, while some are pushing a new tactic: block-granting health care to the states.

President Trump is trying to force Congress to try yet again to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act by threatening to withhold the laws cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurance companies participating on the exchanges.

Bipartisan health care fixes have gone nowhere while wholesale repeal was still on the table, but moderates now seem ready to deal.

Now that the most recent effort by the Republican party to repeal the Affordable Care Act has crashed and burned in the Senate, the possibility that Republicans might actually have to talk with Democrats about ways to improve the health care system in the U.S. has become a more realistic...

The following is a transcript of David Saltzman's recent conversation with Jessica Waltman about health care reform for the ShiftShapers podcast.

As justified as the Democrats' ridicule of recent Republican efforts is, it's also creating a trap for them.