HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans’ second major push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act came up short again this week, leaving President Donald Trump without a marquee legislative win during his first 100 days in office.
House GOP leaders said late Thursday [4-27-17] that they would not bring a new version of their health-care bill to the floor Friday or Saturday, the 100th day of Mr. Trump’s presidency, in an admission that they hadn’t secured enough votes for it to pass and were unwilling to risk the embarrassment of allowing it to publicly fail on the House floor.
Republicans hadn’t formally scheduled another vote on the bill, which they had been forced to retract late last month when it became clear that defections from conservatives and centrists would sink it. But GOP lawmakers’ hopes had risen this week when Rep. Tom MacArthur (R., N.J.) introduced an amendment that won over many of the House’s most conservative Republicans.”
-Kristina Peterson and Natalie Andrews, “GOP Health-Care Push Falls Short Again,” The Wal Street Journal online, April 28, 2017 10:39am