Summary
While significant uncertainty remains as to the Senate’s efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we’re learning more this week about Republican leadership’s anticipated plans for passage. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fast-tracked the House bill (H.R. 1628) today, placing it on the Senate calendar and allowing it, as had been expected, to skip over the committee process. Leader McConnell has set the July 4 recess as a new deadline to hold a vote, and if everything goes according to plan, senators could vote on the bill as soon as June 28.