The latest version of the Senate GOP’s bill to partially repeal and replace Obamacare was pronounced dead the evening of Monday, July 17, when Utah senator Mike Lee and Kansas senator Jerry Moran announced their opposition, bringing the number of “no” votes to at least four. In a Senate that Republicans control 52-48, the bill could lose only two GOP votes and still pass, and Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Maine’s Susan Collins had already come out against it.

Each senator gave different reasons for opposing the bill, but put them all together and the message is that the legislation failed because it is too liberal for some senators, too conservative for others, deeply unpopular among the public, and written by Senate leadership in a closed and rushed process without any public hearings.