According to CNN’s Phil Mattingly, the health care bill failing isn’t necessarily the fault of the Freedom Caucus, but the moderates:
"It doesn't look good right now," says @Phil_Mattingly as GOP health care bill heads for showdown vote https://t.co/IQBQy7uim5
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) March 24, 2017
CNN suggests that by changing the language to try and bring on the conservatives in the House, the moderate Republicans fled and that’s why the bill is basically a failure at this point.
Hmph.
UPDATE: Dana Bash on CNN is now saying that it was the addition of the EHBs to the repeal, the Essential Health Care Benefits, that cause moderates to flee.
Wow, that really says something about this Republican Party we have.