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How the Senate Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President

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This story in the NYT describes how the flawed effort to pass the Republican healthcare bill or repeal the Affordable Care Act passed under president Obama failed after another effort. Many developments killed it. In the end the president lost interest, especially when he saw Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky go on talk shows on the weekend before its collapse to complain about the bill. Senator Collins of Maine was exasperated by the way the bill was being rushed through Congress, and she voiced her strong opinions about this by talking to people back home in Maine and sharing her conversations with the media. The bill pushed by Senator McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, imposed annual caps on Medicaid spending. And did this without any discussion, shutting out committee debate, any public discussion, or formal drafting. Once this process was set in motion in this way the Republican Senators formed camps. Senator Grassley of Iowa and Jerry Moran of Kansas, normally conservative moved to the moderate side. Moran held a town hall meeting covered in the NYT, where older people voiced their concerns. Most of the patient advocacy groups, the hospital groups such as the American Hospital Association, and other medical groups also opposed it. 

After Senator McCain of Arizona said he could not return following a surgery in Phoenix, Senators Lee and Moran announced their opposition. With this the bill's support crumbled including any effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. 


How the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act or pass a Republican healthcare bill failed in the U.S. Senate in mid July 2017

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This is the story of how Senators Collins of Maine, Moran of Kansas, and other Senators Grassley of Iowa, Paul of Kentucky decided to go their own way in mid July 2017. Leading to the collapse of efforts to pass a Republican healthcare bill that slashed Medicaid spending and allowed premiums to rise for the elderly, all without public discussion and debate or any discussion in committees to hear different views.

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