{"id":8280,"date":"2017-09-27T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2017-09-27T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:58:07","slug":"the-gop-repeal-bill-is-imploding-here-are-5-things-left-hanging-on-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8280","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Repeal Bill Is Imploding. Here Are 5 Things Left Hanging On Obamacare."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Rovner for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 26px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Republicans officially pulled the plug on their last-ditch effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 26px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have the votes,\u201d said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) after a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans. \u201cAnd since we don\u2019t have the votes, we\u2019ve made the decision to postpone the vote.\u201d\u00a0Cassidy, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) put together the proposal they hoped could pass the Senate. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/the-gop-repeal-bill-is-imploding-here-are-5-things-left-hanging-on-obamacare\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=56758504&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--iD_JKpW86UnRooBMxWgBHdC7dbOxeVU0awNyKaUwoB6r0Nw2h0TbXgt2p-vjX_wmQ0faiHQyyu0lHu2--wgsF5bdelg&amp;_hsmi=56758504\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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