McConnell says limited bill needed if GOP health bill dies
It was one of his most explicit acknowledgments that his party's top-priority drive to erase much of Obama's landmark 2010 statutes might fall short.
The remarks by McConnell, R-
The existing bill would fail if just three of the 52
"If my side is unable to agree on an adequate replacement, then some kind of action with regard to the private health insurance market must occur," McConnell said at a
"No action is not an alternative," McConnell said. "We've got the insurance markets imploding all over the country, including in this state."
In a written statement, Senate Minority Leader
Schumer has repeatedly said
McConnell's comments came during a recess that has produced no visible evidence that he's winnowed the number of unhappy Republican senators. If anything, the list seemed to grow this week as Sen.
That brought to at least a dozen the
Even as
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In its report last week on the
It said the same about the
McConnell spoke hours after Sen.
Further qualms were voiced by Sen.
"There are people who tell me they are better off" under Obama's law, "and I believe them," Moran said at a town hall meeting Thursday in
McConnell said he expected to have a new version of the legislation ready in "a week or so." Another Republican, Sen.
"We're still several weeks away from a vote, I think," Toomey said Wednesday while appearing before a live studio audience at
Toomey partly attributed some of the
"I didn't expect
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