How the Health Bill Could Cost Senators in the Next Election

One of the health care bills under consideration by Republican leaders would take health insurance away from 32 million people over the next decade, creating a cohort of Americans who could be motivated to vote against senators who approved the measure. …

If they pass the bill, some Republicans might put themselves in a difficult situation because many of them won their last election by fewer votes than the number of people who would lose health coverage in their state under the proposed legislation. The comparison shows the scale of the problem some Republicans might face in close races in 2018 and 2020. CONT.

Vikas Bajaj & Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times