Vote Delayed as G.O.P. Struggles to Marshal Support for Health Care Bill<br />The Senate Democratic whip, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, said the report by the Congressional Budget<br />Office “did more to strike a dagger to the heart of this Republican repeal than anything else.”<br />In 2026, the budget office said, 15 million fewer people would have Medicaid coverage under the Senate bill than under the Affordable Care Act,<br />and seven million fewer people would have coverage they purchased on their own.<br />That is for sure.” Over the next few weeks, he said, Mr. McConnell “will try to use a slush<br />fund to buy off Republicans, cut back-room deals, to try and get this thing done.”<br />At least four Republican senators — Ms. Collins, Dean Heller of Nevada, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin<br />and Rand Paul of Kentucky — had said they would vote against the motion to begin debate, enough to ensure it would fail.<br />Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, said that “the fight is not over.”<br />WASHINGTON — Facing intransigent Republican opposition, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Tuesday delayed a vote on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, dealing another setback to Republicans’ seven-year effort to dismantle the health law<br />and setting up a long, heated summer of health care battles.<br />The budget office said the Senate bill would leave 22 million more people uninsured after 10 years,<br />and many people buying insurance on the individual market would have skimpier coverage and higher out-of-pocket costs.
