Republican plan to defeat Obamacare looks doomed as Susan Collins says no to bill

  • Maine senator calls bill ‘deeply flawed’ and says she will not vote for it
  • Number of Americans with cover would be ‘reduced by millions’, CBO finds

The latest Republican bill to repeal Obamacare appears doomed to fail after a key senator came out strongly against it within minutes of an analysis which said the plan would strip health insurance from “millions” of Americans.

Moments after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a partial analysis of the Republicans’ plan, Maine Senator Susan Collins announced she would not vote for the bill, and called it “deeply flawed”.

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