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Will bipartisan efforts fix the ACA?

Bipartisan health care fixes have gone nowhere while wholesale repeal was still on the table, but moderates now seem ready to deal.

By Katie Kuehner-Hebert | Updated on July 28, 2017
After the latest Senate health care repeal effort failed in the wee hours Friday morning, talk is increasing over a bipartisan fix to the Affordable Care Act.

After the latest Senate health care repeal effort failed in the wee hours Friday morning, talk is increasing over a bipartisan fix to the Affordable Care Act.

The Problem Solvers caucus, led by Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), is a group of 40 senators on both sides of the aisle that has been meeting for about a month to discuss such a fix — and now the group’s efforts are expected to take on greater urgency as it met this morning after the Senate voted 49-51 on the GOP “skinny” repeal bill, according to Politico.

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Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.

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