As Senate Republicans rush toward some final vote on a
health care bill, they are faced with failing to keep a promise they’ve
made for seven years. On Tuesday night they fell well short
of the votes to pass legislation to repeal and replace it. An upcoming
vote on Wednesday is expected to show that they cannot vote to simply
repeal it either.
They are then expected to turn to a new plan: repealing
only the most unpopular parts of the Affordable Care Act, including the
individual mandate and perhaps the employer mandate and some taxes on
the health care industry, while leaving large swaths of Obamacare in
place.
Few bills pronounced dead in the Republican crusade to
overhaul the health care law have stayed that way. Still, the only
viable path left standing amid the rubble, health care lobbyists and
Senate aides believe, would be the much narrower “skinny repeal” bill.
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