House Obamacare Repeal Vote Inches Closer [VIDEO]

Bloomberg reports:

Republican leaders are tantalizingly close to having the votes to pass their long-stalled health-care bill, but they still aren’t sure they have enough support, despite a dramatic reversal by two former holdouts.

Representative Fred Upton, who announced his opposition to the bill Tuesday, told reporters after a meeting with President Donald Trump Wednesday that he’s ready to vote for the measure once a new amendment he helped devise is added. The change would boost funding for people with pre-existing conditions.

“I think it is likely now to pass in the House,” Upton said at the White House. And for a while, it looked like Upton might be right, particularly when Republican Representative Billy Long of Missouri said he too flipped from no to yes after meeting Trump.

But as the afternoon wore on, there was no evidence that Upton and Long had changed anyone’s votes except their own, Republican aides said. One aide put the chance of a vote Thursday at 50 percent, adding that a vote could also be held Friday.