GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Senate Republicans are expected to vote as early as Tuesday [7-25-17] to begin debate on their sweeping health-care legislation—but they don’t know yet what measure they will be voting on.
Some senators said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has told them they would know before the vote whether they would be asked to allow debate on some version of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or legislation that would repeal the ACA with a two-year expiration date.
GOP leaders’ current strategy is to lean heavily on lawmakers to at least vote to allow debate on the bill, in the hopes that amendments and other tweaks could yield an agreement.
But the plan carries some risk. If the ‘motion to proceed’ fails, it would mark a defeat for President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, and could end their current efforts to overhaul the ACA, also called Obamacare, a seven-year Republican campaign promise.
There has been little evidence that senators who opposed the latest version of the bill earlier this month have reversed course.”
-Natalie Andrews, Stephanie Armour, and Kristina Peterson, “Senate Republicans Unsure of What Health-Care Measure They Will Vote On,” The Wall Street Journal online, July 23, 2017 06:07pm