Ramesh Ponnuru, Columnist

House GOP Has Three Options on Health Care

If Republicans could eliminate or fix more regulations, they might gain support from both conservatives and moderates.

March 24, 2017 at 11:45 AM UTC

Ramesh Ponnuru is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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If House Republicans still can’t pass their health-care bill after postponing the vote on it, they will have three choices available.

Option one is to keep trying to modify the bill to win majority support: making it more generous to pick up moderates, or adding some deregulation to court conservatives. The basic structure of the bill, though, limits Republicans’ room to maneuver.