Why Republicans will keep failing on health care until at least 2020

The GOP leadership simply cannot please right-wingers and simultaneously placate the handful of sober moderate voices in the party

Sen. Mitch McConnell and other Republican senators.
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The latest iteration of the Republican health-care bill is not going to become law.

But it's worse than that for the GOP. It's not just that this version of the plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare is clearly doomed. There is no iteration of a GOP health-care bill that is going to become law. Come 2020, President Trump will still be campaigning against ObamaCare as he runs for re-election.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.