31 July, 2017
The drama of keeping the bill away from other members of the Republican upper chamber, caused them to be skeptical and it ended up with McConnell, offering four different bills, all failing to get just 50 votes needed to pass something with "the Skinny Repeal", was the final offering.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed the Republican measure to a vote on the floor of the Senate early Wednesday morning, but the measure failed after three GOP Senators voted against the measure: John McCain of Arizona, Susan Collins of ME, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against the measure Wednesday.
"We had a bill that was pulled and we took another shot at it". He denounced Democrats' opposition to Republican efforts to "find a way to something better than Obamacare", adding, "It's time for our friends on the other side to tell us what they have in mind".
The senator is being hailed by supporters of Obamacare for his decisive vote early Friday morning which doomed the Republican healthcare bill and prevented a repeal.
"The current healthcare system is not financially sustainable, lacks full Hyde protections and conscience rights and is inaccessible to many immigrants".
An opportunity has come for Congress, Bishop Dewane said, "to set aside party and personal political interest and pursue the common good of our nation and its people, especially the most vulnerable". "But it is very hard to improve a law that half of Congress was trying to get rid of". "I had a great meeting with the president and know he remains fully committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare", Graham said.
'During that time, Senator McCain will maintain a work schedule'. I'm proud of the fact that we hung in there and got the work done and got the bill out.
"The Affordable Care Act has always been about something bigger than politics - it's about the character of our country", the spokesman, Kevin Lewis, said in a statement that NBC Politics tweeted out. Except, as Paul Krugman notes in his latest New York Times column, McCain returned to become the deciding vote in pushing forward the health care bill debate-only to then turn around and deliver a "sanctimonious speech denouncing partisanship and divisiveness".
Vice President Mike Pence, the former governor of IN, one of the most Conservative voices of the establishment Republicans and White House Chief of Staff Priebus convinced Trump, that they could get wins IN the House and the Senate.
"I'd rather get out of the way and let it collapse than have a half-ass approach where it is now our problem", Graham said.
The first part of Trump's tweet appeared to be referring to the approximately $8 billion in cost-sharing reduction subsidies paid by the federal government to insurers to lower the price of health coverage for low-income individuals. Analysts point out that the Trump administration, particularly through the Department of Health and Human Services, has many options at its disposal if undermining the A.C.A. were a deliberate aim. We do need to work together.
The president repeated his call for ending the legislative filibuster on Twitter Friday morning and again on Saturday.
