Senate Rejects Proposal to Repeal ObamaCare

Proposal would have given Congress 2 years to come up with a replacement
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Jul 26, 2017 4:11 PM CDT
Senate Rejects Proposal to Repeal ObamaCare
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks from his office to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26.   (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Republican-run Senate has rejected a GOP proposal to scuttle President Obama's health care law and give Congress two years to devise a replacement, the AP reports. Seven Republicans joined all Democrats Wednesday in a 45-55 vote defeating the plan. It was the second self-inflicted setback the GOP has suffered this week in trying to roll back Obama's 2010 statute. Conservatives have embraced the effort to repeal the law without an immediate replacement. GOP moderates have worried it would anger voters nervous that Congress would fail to enact a replacement. Late Tuesday, nine Republicans joined Democrats in blocking a proposal by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to dismantle Obama's law. It would have replaced it with eased coverage requirements for insurers, less generous federal health care subsidies, and other changes. (More ObamaCare stories.)

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