Sure, There's A Health Care Deal. That Doesn't Mean It Can Pass
Opposition from conservatives and waffling support from President Trump remain serious hurdles for the first-ever bipartisan legislation affecting the Affordable Care Act.
A bipartisan coalition of 24 senators--12 Republicans and 12 Democrats--have signed on to health care legislation to prop up the individual insurance market and keep premiums down.
"This is a first step: Improve it, and pass it sooner rather than later. Our purpose is to stabilize and then lower the cost of premiums in the individual insurance market for the year 2018 and 2019," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., on the Senate floor. Alexander and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., crafted the compromise bill.
Alexander and Murray have been working
