“Their opposition to Trump’s health care bill should surprise nobody who’s paid attention for the last six years. In 2013, it orchestrated a government shutdown over funding for the health care law. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThey have anointed Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina as their leader and principal spokesman. “This process from the beginning wasn’t designed to do that.”Now, health care has become such a partisan issue that voters seem to have little expectation that their elected officials will do much to solve the problem. And a new test will come soon as Republicans contemplate an overhaul of the tax code, as the fate of the health care bill throws into doubt whether any major legislation can pass in this climate.

Source: New York Times March 25, 2017 01:07 UTC