McCain’s Opposition Could Re-Open Door To Bipartisan Talks

Just one week after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) re-launched the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and a few days after Senate health committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) announced the bipartisan negotiations to stabilize the individual markets for 2018 were over, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) once again tanked the prospects of the Republican repeal plan -- this time the Graham-Cassidy bill. The Arizona senator joins essentially the entire health care industry -- providers, issuers, and patient groups...