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The White House wants to keep pushing on health care. The Senate has other ideas.

5:46 PM, Aug 02, 2017 | By Andrew Egger

Andrew Egger Reporter The Weekly Standard

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Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch has insisted repeatedly that the window for health care has closed, and that the Senates time is better spent on other issues for now.

Theres too much animosity and were too divided on health care, Hatch told Reuters on Monday. I think we ought to acknowledge that we can come back to health care afterwards, but we need to move ahead on tax reform.

Not every senator is convinced. Health Committee chairman Lamar Alexander announced Wednesday that his committee would hold bipartisan meetings looking at Obamacare repair, which would look at ways to prevent a collapse of the health insurance market.

Asked about these meetings Wednesday, Hatch was unimpressed.

Why are they having hearings on health care? he told reporters. Were onto taxation now. Health care, as far as Im concerned, is over.

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