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The Skinny Repeal Gets a Score

The Congressional Budget Office offered an estimate of Republicans’ last-ditch attempt to roll back Obamacare.
Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

With eight hours left of debate in the Senate reconciliation process, it appears all of the Republicans’ chances of repealing (or replacing) Obamacare will come down to a single option: the “skinny repeal.”

Not much is known about the skinny repeal, however. At the end of Wednesday’s debate session, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for keeping the text of the bill secret, and promised that Democrats would offer no further amendments

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