Alexander, Murray inching toward deal to stabilize Obamacare

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/alexander-murray-obamacare-plan-243258

A pair of deal-making senators are inching toward an agreement to fund Obamacare's insurance subsidies and provide some certainty to health law markets just two days after the GOP’s latest Obamacare repeal effort failed.

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and ranking member Patty Murray are moving toward a bipartisan Obamacare plan after meeting on Wednesday. Though they have not yet clinched a deal, their progress could ignite a new battle over how or whether to improve the law.

"Maybe by the end of next week we will go and hand a piece of legislation to Sen. McConnell and Sen. Schumer,” Alexander said on Thursday.

Alexander and Murray halted an earlier round of talks when Senate Republican leaders opted to pursue a last-ditch effort to repeal the health care law from Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy. The scuttling of that plan has allowed bipartisan talks to resume.

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1. A rare example of the senate doing their jobs.

Shocking.

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2. It has to pass the House and Trump