Is 'Obamacare' repeal dead -- or a legislative zombie?
March 31, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's plan to kill Obamacare died last week. Or maybe it didn't.
The repeal effort seems to have assumed zombie status — somewhere between dead and alive.
This is never-say-die Washington, where big legislative proposals that are in the casket one day can show signs of a pulse and start climbing out the next.
It's a fairly common condition in the capital, where politicians who invest enormous political capital in a proposal are loath to let go.
"One of the keys to understanding Washington is to think a little bit like a coroner," says consultant Ari Fleisch...
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