Though the Senate voted to advance the Republican-backed American Health Care Act of 2017, which would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, three key Republican Senators declared their opposition to the current “skinny repeal” of Obamacare on Thursday afternoon. LEVEY: Well, Senator - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had come up with his preferred repeal and replace bill, which had been slightly modified over the last couple of weeks in the course of negotiations with conservative Republican senators, like Ted Cruz, more centrist Republican senators like Rob Portman, who are concerned about Medicaid.
The American Health Care Act of 2017, an attempt to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, fails passage in the United States Senate.