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Sorry voters, I said it 68 times, but didn't really care. Thought it would be so simple, but now... .. Shrug.

Who Stopped the Republican Health Bill?

By WILSON ANDREWS, MATTHEW BLOCH and HAEYOUN PARK MARCH 24, 2017

33 Republicans who would not budge from their decisions to vote “no” on the health care bill were key to causing its collapse. They can be divided into three broad categories:

10 Moderates .. 8 Other Republicans .. 15 Hard-liners

They were united in their resistance to the bill, but actually came from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum.

..lol, passport-like photos and all .. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/24/us/politics/republicans-opposed-health-care-bill.html

Dave Brat has the name best fitting his position in the Freedom Caucus camp.

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Paul Ryan just canceled the House health bill vote in a major defeat for President Trump

Updated by Andrew [e-mail] Mar 24, 2017, 3:38pm EDT

First, there are other things to do, and many Republicans seem to want to move on to those other things. That number includes President Trump himself, who demanded this vote be held before a deal was in hand because he’s tired of negotiating on health care and wants to move on to other priorities like tax reform. (Health reform has never been an issue particularly close to Trump’s heart.) So if the urgency to pass a health bill dissipates now, it may never return.

Second, this defeat came partly at the hands of House conservatives. Any revised bill that could win them over would be more likely to alienate moderates. It would also be even less likely to pass the Senate than Ryan’s original version (which was incredibly unlikely to pass the Senate).

Third, it may be now or never to use the special Senate process that could pass health care with a majority vote. That’s because Congress wants to pass a new budget resolution that would put tax reform on that “budget reconciliation” track. But the chamber’s rules seem to hold that the Senate can only have one revenue-related bill set up for reconciliation at a time — which means they’d be giving up their opportunity to use it for a health bill, and that any future health bill would need 60 votes to beat a filibuster.

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What does President Trump do now?

We don’t yet know what will come next, but Trump has signaled
in recent days that he’ll wash his hands of health care.

http://www.vox.com/2017/3/24/15014202/house-ahca-vote-canceled-trump

See also:

68 times Trump promised to repeal Obamacare
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=129859545

Trump: grumble, remember i used to be in favor of universal health care. So ya can't blame me.