Republicans withdrew the American Health Care Act moments before a scheduled vote on March 24, after failing to woo enough lawmakers to support it. Add it all up, and the CBO estimated that 24 million people would have lost their health insurance as a result. States would have been allowed to write their own rules, so, depending on where you lived, insurance companies might have been able to sell you “insurance” that didn't cover hospitalizations, prescription drugs, maternity care, mental health care and preventive care, and also imposed annual and lifetime limits on your benefits. The surprising thing, then, isn't that as few as 17 percent of people approved of the American Health Care Act. And for the GOP, that's the real tragedy of 24 million people keeping their health insurance.

Source: Washington Post March 25, 2017 12:45 UTC