The GOP’s murderous senate health bill flatlined on Monday, but there’s a Republican Plan B. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will introduce a measure that would repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) in two years.
That’s it. No alternative plan to replace it.
Your health insurance will self-destruct at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2019.
More:
“McConnell’s ‘nuclear option’ after health care failure,” Mike Allen Jonathan Swan, Axios
“Republican senator announces no vote on ObamaCare repeal: ‘I did not come to Washington to hurt people,'” The Week
“Dem senator: ObamaCare repeal without replacement would be ‘humanitarian disaster,’” Aida Chavez, The Hill
“McConnell Obamacare repeal plan already taking fire from Republicans,” Daniella Diaz and Ted Barrett, CNN
“’Repeal and delay’: McConnell’s new, risky health care plan, explained,” Sarah Kliff, Vox
UPDATE:
“GOP’s repeal-only plan quickly collapses in Senate,” Jessie Hellmann and Jordain Carney, The Hill
Related:
“House GOP Budget Plan Cuts Medicare and Social Security,” Priscilla Alvarez, The Atlantic
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