The GOP's health-care plan is a monstrosity. Republican moderates may embrace it anyway.

Only a handful of senators stand between America and health-care disaster

Sen. Mitch McConnell and fellow Republicans.
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The American Health Care Act is a monstrosity that would roll back ObamaCare's subsidies and regulations, gut Medicaid, and rob 23 million more Americans of their health coverage by 2026. When the House GOP passed this bill by a razor-thin vote, I wrote that Senate Republicans would never muster the votes to pass something so aggressively cruel.

Well, silly me.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.