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Health Care's Goldilocks Scenario Looks Slightly Less Impossible
A bipartisan deal to fix the ACA would help much of the sector.
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The ever-shifting debate over the future of U.S. health-care policy took its oddest turn yet last week -- toward something that might actually help the health-care sector.
Should the Senate's effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act fail, then the only recourse might be a bipartisan fix of Obamacare, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday. Though it's bleeding profusely, the Senate bill isn't dead yet. But the idea of strengthening the ACA now seems slightly less unrealistic than it has in a long time. And it's an outcome many in the health-care sector would welcome.