BREAKING: Republicans defect, kill Senate effort to repeal Obamacare

Obamacare lives to see another day.CREDIT: Screenshot/C-SPAN2

The Senate voted against the Health Care Freedom Act (HCFA) early Friday morning, with a vote of 49–51.

The so-called “skinny repeal” bill made serious cuts to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and would have left 16 million people uninsured by 2026. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John McCain (R-AZ), and Susan Collins (R-ME) were the only...