The House vote generally adhered to party lines, with the debate highlighting the striking gulf between the two parties over the future of health care. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyFour committees — two in the Senate, two in the House — will write language repealing major provisions of the 2010 health law. In the House debate Friday, Republicans and Democrats offered wildly differing views of health care and health insurance. Democrats also tried to draw attention to what they said would be the devastating consequences of repealing the health care law. On Friday, Representative Drew Ferguson, a freshman Republican from Georgia, likened the health care law to a goat that was running loose in a person’s home.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2017 20:34 UTC