Republicans ready to protect insurers by any means necessary

Published June 28, 2017 1:47am ET



If we fail,” Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Republicans who resisted the GOP healthcare bill, “we’re going to be negotiating with Chuck Schumer.”

It was almost Trumpian in both its take-it-or-leave-it tone and as a stark declaration from a party leader of independence from the party. But it also raised a question: negotiating what, exactly?

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