What happens next on health care is uncertain, but political analysts suggest that any further discussion would go through the committee process. But it wasn't true. The Republicans took over the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014 and in 2016 the presidency.

When people are uninsured, they often fail to get the healthcare services, treatments and medications needed to maintain optimal health, and often resort to the most expensive emergency health care services in time of desperate need. The Congressional majorities in each house are hell-bent to take away health insurance from millions of Americans.

She said Trump's threat to cut off payments would not change her opposition to the GOP health bill and stressed the cost-sharing reduction payments were critical to make insurance more affordable for low-income people.

Left unsaid was a matter of avoiding blame: senators knew that if the House passed a bill and the Senate did not, blame for the initiative's demise would fall on their shoulders, and no one else's.

It can't be called a Healthcare Bill unless it increases the number of people covered, improves everyone's coverage, and/or lowers costs to the individual.

Americans are divided on what to do about health care, but they should be united in this conclusion: Senate Republicans' manic approach to reforming a sector that represents one-sixth of the U.S. economy and determines life or death for millions of people is utterly craven and irresponsible. That's why - he keeps coming back to this, and saying, look, senate, do your job.

And for the Democrats' "new" slogan of "better ingredients, better pizza", whatever, an absolute joke.

The Post spoke to a handful of Democratic and Republican senators about the vote that, for the time being, crushed the GOP's hopes to overhaul the healthcare system.

The court's decision is "a check on the ability of the president to sabotage the Affordable Care Act in one very important way", said Tim Jost, professor emeritus at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Virginia, a supporter of the ACA who has followed the issue closely. John McCain, R-Arizona, to vote against the proposal and kill the Republican effort. That would continue under the Republican plan, but the federal government would re-imburse the states only half, rather than the whole amount, which was only going to be for a temporary period anyway. Trump said on Twitter over the weekend.

Congress has previously flirted with the debt limit deadline, spooking the markets and causing ratings agency S&P to downgrade the U.S. credit rating. Three Republicans opposed the measure.

"The president will not accept those who said it's, quote, 'Time to move on, '" White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said. This is its least defensible element.

"What I'm hoping happens is we work together, in a bipartisan way, to make improvements because nobody said Obamacare was perfect". And they largely agree that many ACA provisions - such as coverage of pre-existing conditions and caps on out-of-pocket expenses - need to be preserved.