What’s next on Capitol Hill after Senate health care setback

John McCain, R-Ariz., joined two other Republican holdouts and all the Democrats to vote against the measure.

Republican senators said there was no consensus and no plan for what comes next on health care. Sen. It proposed ending insurance mandates and the medical device tax, boosting health savings accounts, giving states flexibility and shifting funds to health care centers.

US Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer has praised Republican senator John McCain for voting against repealing Obamacare.

It was to have been the ticket to negotiations with the House, which had passed its own legislation in May.

Here’s what’s up…The GOP’s “skinny repeal” of Obamacare was struck down after three Republican Senators voted against it.

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Republicans in the US Senate have largely failed at trying to pass a comprehensive plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. One would have erased Obama’s statute and replaced it with a more constricted government health care role, and the other would have annulled the law and given Congress two years to replace it.

“Unfortunately”, Ryan said, “the Senate was unable to reach a consensus”. It would package repeal of a few of the most unpopular pieces of the 2010 law, along with a few other measures, with the goal of getting something, anything, out of the Senate.

The contentious debate has left Republicans in an uncomfortable position where the only legislation they can pass is a bill most senators oppose.

And that he said he would vote yes, hoping the House and Senate would agree on something better at a later date.

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Their overall message to voters: don’t blame us, it’s all the Senate’s fault. The CBO report on it began circulating on Twitter around midnight and the vote finally closed around 1:45 a.m. Friday.

“While we are relieved that the Senate did not adopt legislation that would have harmed patients and critical safety net programs, the status quo is not acceptable”, AMA President Dr. David Barbe said in a statement.

McConnell, R-Ky., is calling his bill the Health Care Freedom Act, but among his colleagues it’s known as “skinny repeal”.

As he received a barrage of questions from reporters about the Senate’s apparent strategy of passing something that it doesn’t ultimately want the House to pass, Cornyn pushed back with this quip: “I guess we ought to go back to Schoolhouse Rock”. “But very difficulty. Very hard”. But maybe they will decide a bipartisanship effort to stabilize the insurance markets isn’t such a bad idea since doing nothing isn’t a smart option.

“We’re in the twilight zone of legislating”, said Democratic Sen.

“Nobody has said Obamacare is ideal”, Schumer said, adding he would like to see measure to stabilize markets, offer reinsurance and help “bare counties” in danger of not having any insurers in the ACA market.

The Congressional Budget Office came out with estimates on Thursday evening on the legislation, projecting the number of uninsured Americans would increase by 16 million over the next decade.

Trump took to social media to blast Collins, McCain and Murkowski.

The commander-in-crazy could muster only a lame tweet Friday morning: “3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down”.

“I’ve stated time and time again that one of the major failures of Obamacare was that it was rammed through Congress by Democrats on a strict party-line basis without a single Republican vote”, he said in a statement explaining his vote. While the amendment would have repealed some of Obamacare’s most burdensome regulations, it offered no replacement to actually reform our health care system and deliver affordable, quality health care to our citizens.