Dems Prod McConnell To Take Up Health Package In Face Of Veto Threat

By Amy Lotven / May 16, 2019 at 8:21 PM
House lawmakers debated and adopted more than two dozen amendments to the drug-pricing and Affordable Care Act fix package of seven bills that passed the floor Thursday (May 16), most of which focused on further steps to shore up the marketplace and received no GOP support although Republicans did not oppose a few of the ideas. The package passed 284-183 and will head to the Senate, where the ACA-related bills will likely die even as the bipartisan drug-pricing bills could...


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