The "No" killed the GOP's Health Care Freedom Act, an eight page piece of legislation unveiled only hours before. Hence, Obamacare's individual mandate, the requirement that everyone have health insurance, and pay premiums, so that the sick can be treated at prices we can all afford. The "No" restored some common sense to the health care debate. Though his campaign promise to insure that all have health insurance had become, as another failing President once famously said, "inoperative" . In a rare profile in courage at a time when there's lots of the former but almost none of the latter, the vote came from a senior Republican Senator from an implacably red state.

Source: Huffington Post July 28, 2017 21:11 UTC