07/31/2017

Senate, House Lawmakers Pursue Bipartisan Healthcare Talks

Bipartisan talk on healthcare is blossoming

Lawmakers are ramping up bipartisan talks on the next steps for healthcare legislation after the GOP ObamaCare repeal effort hit a wall. Announcements of across-the-aisle negotiations sprung up on Friday, less than a day after Senate Republicans failed to pass their "skinny" repeal of the Affordable Care Act. 

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), who is up for reelection in 2018, said he and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) "are now working together" with a bipartisan group of senators after discussing the issue previously.

"This group of senators met for dinner the other night to start sharing our ideas and discussing a path forward. While we still have a long way to go, we are starting to work together to try to get this done in a bipartisan way," Nelson said on Friday.

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