Partisan approval with one vote to spare sends American Health Care Act to uncertain fate in Senate,after negotiations reveal cracks in Republican partyHouse Republicans narrowly approved a controversial plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, taking a meaningful first step toward fulfilling a seven-year promise to repeal and replace the 2010 law that served as a landmark overhaul of the US healthcare system.
Republicans passed the American Health Care Act with one vote to spare, or following a dramatic series of negotiations that exposed deep fissures between the party’s moderate and conservative wings over how to replace Barack Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com