Centrist focus on merely fixing Obamacare exposes split among Democrats

Centrist House Democrats on Wednesday announced they would be pushing for a healthcare plan to shore up Obamacare, only hours after the House’s liberal Democrats pushed for a fully government-financed healthcare system.

The centrist Democrats, a 101-member group which calls itself the New Democrat Coalition, hope to revive a bipartisan measure that failed in the Senate. The plan, an approach favored by the healthcare industry, would funnel billions of government dollars toward Obamacare in order to lower premiums for more patients.