The Senate’s drive to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 collapsed in the face of Republican opposition. Senate leadership was unable to secure enough Republican votes to bring the legislation to the Senate floor for a vote.
On September 25, the American Academy of Family Physicians wrote to the Chairman and Ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee opposing the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal.
According to the AAFP Washington, DC, office, it appears that the FY 2018 budget resolution will not call for both tax and health reform under the simple majority reconciliation process; thus, the health reform debate has paused for now.