President Trump’s promise to promote health insurance sales across state lines? Not in the American Health Care Act. Such bills, which cannot be filibustered and thus can pass with only 50 Senate votes (along with Vice President Mike Pence’s tiebreaking vote), must adhere to the so-called Byrd rule. The House staff members who wrote the American Health Care Act apparently felt that changing Obamacare’s requirement that all plans cover 10 basic categories of benefits would break the rule. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAlone, the American Health Care Act’s effects don’t match particularly well with favorite Republican talking points about health reform.

Source: New York Times March 16, 2017 18:59 UTC