| Susan Collins, Voicing Doubt on Health Bill, Leaves It Close to Collapse |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=8014"><span class="small">Thomas Kaplan, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Sunday, 24 September 2017 13:06 |
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Kaplan writes: "Republican leaders in the Senate can afford to lose only two of their members in the narrowly divided chamber, and they have only until the end of this month to pass the bill in the Senate using procedures that shield it from a Democratic filibuster."
Susan Collins, Voicing Doubt on Health Bill, Leaves It Close to Collapse24 September 17
“I have a number of serious reservations about it,” Ms. Collins said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Her comments came two days after Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, announced that he would not support the measure. Another Republican, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, had previously said he would oppose it because he believed it did not go far enough in dismantling the Affordable Care Act — a critique he offered again on Sunday. |
enator Susan Collins of Maine said on Sunday that it was “very difficult” for her to envision voting for the latest plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaving President Trump and Republican leaders on the precipice of failure in their 11th-hour attempt to assemble the votes they need.