Senators flirt with bipartisanship on healthcare bill

Published June 30, 2017 4:01am ET



Republicans have vowed for seven years to repeal and replace Obamacare, but in light of dire projections the drafted GOP healthcare bill would have on uninsurance rates and Medicaid cuts, a single Republican is publicly calling more strongly for an entirely different approach: Fix Obamacare rather than gut it and do so by working with Democrats.

The centrist Republican, Sen. Susan Collins from Maine, made the suggestion Monday on Twitter, after a Congressional Budget Office report projected that the bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, by 2016 would cut Medicaid by $772 billion and cause 22 million more people to become uninsured.

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