Headline Roundup • July 28th, 2017
"Skinny Repeal" Motions Fails
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The Daily Caller
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell failed to garner the support needed to pass the motion to proceed on the watered-down version of the Obamacare repeal bill just after 1:30 a.m. Friday morning.
Three Republicans — Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine — opted to join the 48 Democrats in voting against the measure.
USA TODAY
The Senate’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare collapsed early Friday morning, and President Trump has already replied that he is ready to “let Obamacare implode” and then reopen negotiations.
Absent some kind of legislation, what is going to happen to the Affordable Care Act? Here's what the death of "repeal and replace" could mean for you.
Vox
In a stunning turn, Senate Republicans — in the dead of night, on their last hope of passing any kind of Obamacare repeal bill — came up short.
The result is, for now, a crushing blow to seven years of promises to uproot the health care law.
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