The Senate effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a process that began with 13 Republican men drafting a plan behind closed doors, collapsed Tuesday, as three Republicans said they would not support an ultimately futile attempt to simply roll back the current health care law without a replacement. Though all three are women, their objections have little to do with their sex and more to do with the legislation’s cuts to Medicaid. The opioid epidemic led to her misgivings with her party’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. West Virginia expanded Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care law, a decision that increased the number of her constituents with health insurance. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMs. Capito expressed reservations in recent months about Republican proposals, calling for a plan that would at least draw out the rollback of federal payments made to states under the health care law over several years.

Source: New York Times July 18, 2017 23:56 UTC