McConnell backup plan to repeal Affordable Care Act falters

Updated at 2:40 p.m. ET
Hours after a replacement for the Affordable Care Act was all but scuttled by a clutch of Senate Republicans, three lawmakers appear to have doomed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Plan B: Repeal the Affordable Care Act without replacing it.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Susan Collins of Maine have all said they would vote “no” on a motion that would have kicked off McConnell’s plan to vote on a s