The Hasty Resurrection of the American Health Care Act
The Republican plan to replace Obamacare is back under discussion, but its prospects for success are no clearer than they were before.
It’s revival time for the American Health Care Act.
The Republican repeal-and-replace plan for Obamacare died an unceremonious death last month when President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan abandoned the bill minutes before a floor vote that they knew was doomed to fail.
But now, just in time for Easter, the bill has seemingly and is back under discussion on Capitol Hill. Vice President Mike Pence is shuttling once again between the White House and the clubhouse of the House Freedom Caucus, dangling a proposal to push the legislation even further to the right in order to secure the votes of the by allowing states, under certain conditions, to gut the regulations undergirding that pledge.
