John’s McCain’s vote to end the death watch over Republican repeal of the Affordable Care Act may, indeed, not have been welcomed by the president or the Congressional Republican leadership. The bill they brought back would present some amalgam of the House bill, the original McConnell Senate bill, the revised Senate “partial repeal” bill, and the pure “Repeal and Replace Later” concept. How would Senators like Heller and Capito explain to their voters cutting them off from health care after promising to defend them? But compare their political arithmetic with those of the last two Presidents to seek massive health care reform. He didn’t have enough political capital to pass health care reform, and the effort cost him control of Congress.

Source: Huffington Post July 31, 2017 16:16 UTC