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As the Trump Distraction plays out, there is" another disturbing story this week -- the chances of the Senate taking away health insurance from millions of people seem to be rising.Yesterday, Mitch McConnell formally started a fast-track process for the Senate to consider the House’s health care bill. It’s true that Senate Republicans continue to poor-mouth their prospects for passing a bill, but t hat may actually be part of their strategy to do so. By downplaying the odds of passage, senators are able to reduce the amount of attention and public opposition that their deliberations might receive. Meanwhile, they are moving quickly and almost entirely behind closed doors to come up with a bill that makes only modest changes to the House-passed bill. Those changes are akin to “adding ketchup to rotten food,” as Andy Slavitt, who used to run Medicare and Medicaid, put it."
At www.nytimes.com
