Republicans probably won’t rally around a health care alternative before 2017, a GOP senator said Thursday.
Appearing on Fox News, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) suggested there will be “lots of ideas” but no health care proposal that unifies the party in the 114th Congress.
BRET BAIER: Do you think Republicans rally around one alternative before the end of this Congress?
RICHARD BURR: I don’t think so. I think that there are going to be a lot of ideas not only in Congress but around the think tanks here in Washington and around the country. But I do say this, we’re going to know a lot more after the Supreme Court hears the King v. Burwell case, and that’s going to be a short-term interim response. The long-term is, how do we revamp this in 2017 and after so it works for America’s patients?
Burr, along with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and former Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), proposed one of the more comprehensive GOP alternatives to Obamacare last Congress, but it failed to gain traction within the party.
