Mitch McConnell started the Senate health care debate with an impossible task: reconciling the bitter differences between his conservative senators who wanted to undo as much of Obamacare as possible and more moderate members who were skittish about millions of people losing health insurance.
Now he's given up. The Better Care Reconciliation Act was left for dead Monday night when four senators refused to back the bill and half a dozen more, all moderates, remained undecided. Two months of backroom negotiations and mounting pressure for senators to deliver on their promise to repeal and replace Obamacare still left the plan short.
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