Story highlights Republicans face a deadline of this week to pass a new health care billThe updated bill would also allow states to design some of their own insurance rules(CNN) As the Republican Party's last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare hangs by a thread, a revised version of the Graham-Cassidy bill was circulated to Senate Republicans on Sunday with the aim of winning over key votes. Even with the new changes, the task ahead is daunting. Rand Paul and John McCain have already publicly opposed the bill, and leadership can't afford to lose one more. The vehicle that Republicans are using that allows them to advance a bill without any Democratic support is set to expire at the end of September, making the next several days critical. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will soon have to make a call: walk away from his party's latest attempt to gut the Affordable Care Act, or put Graham-Cassidy on the Senate floor and hope that it passes.

Source: CNN September 25, 2017 02:51 UTC