Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Apr 2017
Republicans try to revive health-care effort as leaders seek to temper expectations
4 April 2017 - Republicans led by Vice President Pence pushed to revive a moribund health-care bill on Tuesday, meeting late into the night with key lawmakers eager to build new GOP consensus to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Pence spent much of Tuesday on Capitol Hill meeting with key groups of lawmakers, as well as with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, a day after visiting separately with conservative hard-liners and moderates to gauge the potential for a revamped version of legislation that collapsed last month.
The crux of the new proposal would be to allow states to seek exemptions from certain mandates established under the Affordable Care Act — including a requirement that insurers cover 10 “essential health benefits” as well as a prohibition on charging those with preexisting medical conditions more than the healthy.
