Your humble correspondent is feeling even more humble after Friday’s failure of the House to pass the first step in Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan to replace ObamaCare. This column expected members of the House Freedom Caucus to ultimately embrace tax and spending cuts in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars each, plus an end to federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Now that the White House is expressing its willingness to work with Democrats on health care reform, Freedom Caucus members may deeply regret their decision to oppose the Ryan plan. But Friday’s failure does highlight an issue that could unify Republicans...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 27, 2017 21:33 UTC