Westchesterr : reported that Republicans say time for Senate to move on from health care

Rather than resuming its health care debate, the Senate began considering a judicial nomination Monday. On health care last week, Republican defections led to the Senate decisively rejecting one proposal to simply erase much of Obama's statute. The White House is stepping up demands ...By ALAN FRAMAssociated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - Leading Senate Republicans said Monday it was time to move from health care to other issues, saying they saw no fresh pathway to the votes needed to reverse last week's collapse of their effort to repeal and rewrite the Obama health care law. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas signaled pique at White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney, who pushed senators in weekend TV appearances to keep voting on health care until they succeed. The lawmakers spoke after last week's stunning crash of the GOP's drive to tear down President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law and replace it with their vision of more limited federal programs.

Horsey: Defeat of 'skinny repeal' bill leaves U.S. health care in Trump's careless hands

Through the summer, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was unable to get his caucus united around a health care plan. Republican senators spent the week rummaging through scraps of health care legislation hoping to stitch together a scheme that would keep alive their effort to repeal Obamacare. A stalwart few centrist GOP senators refused to vote for any bill that would take away health care access from tens of millions of Americans. The frightening reality is that, for now, the fate of America's health care system rests in the hands of a president who seems perfectly willing to let it disintegrate into chaos. Mr. McConnell sounded bitter and bruised after the vote and not in the mood for magnanimity and compromise.

Shock, anger, relief in Georgia after health care effort tanks

President Trump and his administration can run the Obamacare system in ways that keep it afloat, or that poke more holes in its hull. View Caption Hide Caption A protester holds up a sign during a rally against the GOP health care plan, on Capitol Hill, July 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Read the whole story on myAJC: After repeal bill failure, shock, relief and disappointment in GeorgiaRelated (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Christy Nelson survived thyroid cancer but has been fighting insomnia for months, terrified of the GOP effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. She and her husband, who has Crohn's disease, depend on protections for pre-existing conditions to afford health coverage, and following the collapse of the repeal effort their relief is only slowly starting to bloom.


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