Senate GOP leadership goes for door #2 and begin to backroom bargain on Obamacare with a battle cry of “Reform,” which ain’t replacing nor repealing anything from their campaign promises. – PB/TK
McConnell to consider bipartisan plan to pay health insurers – By Adam Beam / Aug 5 2017
FANCY FARM, Ky. — A week after an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’d consider a bipartisan effort to continue payments to insurers to avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets.
Alexander recently said he will work with the committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, on a bill next month that would pay insurers through 2018. In exchange, Alexander wants Democrats to agree to make it easier for states to choose their own health coverage standards that insurers must provide rather than abiding by former President Barack Obama’s law.
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