The Republicans’ moment of victory on health care didn’t last long.
With cancer-stricken John McCain making a stirring speech and casting the decisive procedural vote on Tuesday, President Trump and Mitch McConnell were able to get the health bill out of intensive care and to the Senate floor.
But in the vote hours later on the main repeal-and-replace bill—the one that the president and GOP leadership have been pushing so hard—nine Republican senators defected. It wasn’t even close.
In other words, the president’s team is no closer to getting a health care bill than before McConnell, with an appeal to party loyalty, miraculously brought the effort back from the dead. The Republican divide is as deep as ever.
Indeed, the Republicans failed again yesterday to pass a repeal-only bill, which Trump favored as a backup but which never had a chance.
Their only hope now is to pass something fairly miniscule and declare victory.
But the so-called “skinny repeal” is looking increasingly like anorexic repeal.
Keep in mind that Republicans spent seven years promising to repeal and replace ObamaCare. It’s awfully hard for them to walk away empty-handed.
So they need to pass something, anything, to get to a House-Senate conference and then declare victory.
Given that this fight has consumed the first six months of the administration, my sense is that the GOP would like to rid itself of the issue and move on. HHS Secretary Tom Price actually spoke on CNBC of passing “the lowest common denominator…What gets us to 50 votes so that we can move forward on a health-care reform legislation… that’s what needs to happen.”
The skinny repeal, as I understand it, would abolish the Obama law’s mandates for individuals and larger companies (and ax a tax on medical device makers).
One problem is that without a mandate, lots of healthy people can just wait till they get sick to buy insurance, which could shatter the financial underpinnings of the system. The larger dilemma is that this would leave almost all of ObamaCare in place, including subsidies, regulations on required services and the Medicaid expansion.
One other thought: there has not been a single committee hearing on this legislation that affects one-sixth of the economy.
As McCain said before voting to proceed (and later supporting the repeal-and-replace bill): “We’ve tried to do this by coming up with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration, then springing it on skeptical members, trying to convince them it’s better than nothing, asking us to swallow our doubts and force it past a unified opposition. I don’t think that’s going to work in the end, and it probably shouldn’t.”
If Democrats were doing that, the right would be going crazy. The Dems did use parliamentary maneuvers to ram through ObamaCare on a party-line vote, but they held lots of hearings.
McConnell has no time to worry about legislative niceties. After the Republican defections on the bigger bills, he’s got an uphill battle to get to 50—on something.
Howard Kurtz is a Fox News analyst and the host of “MediaBuzz” (Sundays 11 a.m.). He is the author of five books and is based in Washington. Follow him at @HowardKurtz. Click here for more information on Howard Kurtz.
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A president’s diet might seem like a small, personal, and rather inconsequential detail, but it says a lot about his focus ...
The Fallout from WannaCry
There was a joke going around thirty years ago, a not very good joke but like any two-edged sword it ...
Florida sheriff produces results after viral video tough talk
Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell is keeping his promise to drug dealers: He’s coming for them. The sheriff’s office announced ...
House Democrat calls on Sessions to recuse himself from a Flynn investigation
A Mississippi Democrat wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to step aside from any investigation by the Justice Department into retired ...
Coast Guard intercepts no Cuban migrants at sea during April
MIAMI – The Coast Guard says no Cuban migrants were intercepted at sea trying to reach the U.S. during April, ...
Judge Curiel sets March 30 for Trump U settlement hearing
A federal judge issued an initial sign-off on Tuesday evening of a $25 million settlement between President-elect Donald Trump and ...
PLOT THICKENS Probe of House Democrats IT contractors sparks security concerns
A criminal investigation into IT contractors employed by dozens of House Democrats is sparking broader concerns about continuing access to ...
This Red Alert Now Flashing on Bond Trader's Radar Screen…
(Bloomberg) — A bond-market warning light that glowed green for years is suddenly flashing red. The bad news for bondholders ...
Axelrod: 'Reactionary epochs' like Trump's have happened before 'to our shame'
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Airline accused of bad policy
A gay couple from Florida say they were discriminated against by Southwest Airlines after reportedly being denied access to pre-board ...
STUNNING VIDEO Peru mudslide survivor's escape caught on camera
Stunned witnesses in Peru took out their cellphone cameras as a woman escaped a mudslide that swept her into a ...
Secret Service: Reports of top-level resignations 'absolutely false'
The Secret Service is denying that two senior Secret Service managers were abruptly forced to resign Thursday night. “The report ...
Alan Dershowitz op-ed: Trump says Palestinians must earn a two-state solution
President Trump raised eyebrows when he mentioned the possibility of a one-state solution. The context was ambiguous and no one ...
Timberlake's ex revealed
Can you believe they dated? Because we can’t. http://www.foxnews.com/”>Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/ Justin Timberlake and Jenna Dewan Jenna Dewan revealed in ...
North Carolina teen arrested in mother's 2015 murder
A North Carolina teenager who found his mother dead more than a year ago has been charged with killing her. ...
Tomi Lahren breaks silence
Tomi Lahren has broken her silence. Lahren said on ABC’s “Nightline” Wednesday she was “deeply hurt” by TheBlaze’s decision to ...
Hackers reportedly target US nuclear facilities
Hackers are reportedly targeting the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and energy facilities. In an interview ...
‘Sandlot' guy sued for beating
LOS ANGELES – A graduate student has sued five men, including child actor-turned-firefighter Michael Anthony Vitar, who starred in “Sandlot” ...
Smelling blood, Left ups pressure on Puzder
In the wake of Monday night’s resignation by national security adviser Mike Flynn, liberal groups are focusing their energies on ...
MOM KNEW FROM 'DAY 1' Mother had no doubt her ex was son's killer
The mother of Dylan Redwine, the 13-year-old Colorado boy killed in 2012, said she knew all along that her ex-husband ...
Catwoman has huge news
Months after an infamous fight with her boyfriend Lloyd Klein, Jocelyn Wildenstein is showing off her new cat’s meow – a 32-carat diamond ...
United Airlines latest carrier to end flights to Venezuela
United Airlines intends to suspend all of its flights to Venezuela next month, a move that will further isolate the ...
Courageous American Feminist: Phyllis Chesler
Anything men can do women can do as well, maybe better was the declaration of the British writer Mary Wollstonecraft, ...
Graham: Senate silencing of Warren was 'long overdue'
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Humpbacks stun scientists
Humpback whales, which humans have long observed to be solitary creatures, are gathering in large groups to feed, and it’s ...
Republicans united under Trump, but trade threatens to divide the party
President Trump’s trade agenda threatens to divide Republicans, two prominent conservatives said in an interview with the Washington Examiner’s weekly ...
Woman pulls gun on drone
Clearly annoyed by a drone hovering near her residence, a woman aims a gun at the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in ...
'HANNITY': Scaramucci vows hard line stance on leaks from West Wing
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci vowed Wednesday to take a hard line against leaks from the West Wing, telling ...
DeVos responds to protesters: 'I will not be deterred'
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Friday she would not be deterred from working for the country’s children after being ...
'This is our flag': County tears down memorial, town rebuilds it
A Washington town took action after a roadside memorial honoring veterans was removed by county road crews. The “years-old display” ...
Why Should Whites Be Happy about Becoming a Minority?
White people are finding it “difficult to adjust” to becoming a minority, goes the premise of a new AP history ...
Bernie Sanders 2016 ad 'happiest,' 'most hopeful,' study says
When it came to inspiring people with optimism in what was often a bitter campaign year, an ad produced by ...
THIS WEEK IN PICTURES
The week in pictures Here are the most arresting images taken in the past seven days. “> An AH-64D Apache ...
The Last Jedi and the New Atheism
This last month premiered the latest chapter in one of the most successful movie franchises in history: Star Wars. The ...
24 dead after river overflows, destroying homes in Colombia
MOCOA, Colombia – Authorities say 24 people are dead after a river overflowed in Colombia, triggering an avalanche of water ...
Trump: Pelosi 'lying' about not meeting the Russian ambassador
President Trump accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of lying on Friday, after a photograph surfaced showing her meeting with ...
Several people injured after falling off ferris wheel in Washington
Several people were injured after falling off a ride at a fair in Washington late Thursday, officials said. The Port ...
'Flip' star: You don't know…
Christina El Moussa became a celeb as one of the stars of HGTV’s hit show “Flip or Flop.” But El ...
Kirsten Gillibrand denies 2020 ambitions
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Sunday rebuffed “rumors” that she’s laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign. “No, I am running ...
FCC votes to advance repeal of Internet rules…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 on Thursday to advance a Republican plan to reverse the Obama administration’s 2015 ...
