Senate Republicans admit defeat in efforts to gut Obamacare

Washington • Conceding defeat in the latest effort to gut Obamacare, Senate GOP leaders on Tuesday canceled a vote on a Republican health-care plan that couldn’t attract enough support to pass, ending – for now – a seven-year-old Republican crusade to jettison the law.The “health care [fight], as far as I am concerned, is over,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told reporters, noting the Senate will now pivot to overhauling the U.S. tax code. “Tax reform is wher