The new Senate bill's major provisions

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And McCain wasn't the only one..

The Senate just voted 51–50 on the motion to proceed — with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie — on legislation to be finalized later that will repeal parts of or all of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. This was dramatic news, not only because Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) entered the Senate chamber fresh off a flight from his home where he is undergoing cancer treatment, but also because several Republican senators voted yes despite their previous statements indicating they would not vote to open debate with the legislation in such mysterious chaos.

The most likely path forward on this legislative efforts, according to Senate Republicans, is “skinny repeal,” which means lawmakers would vote to hobble Obamacare by repealing the individual and employer mandates as well as the medical device tax. Doing this, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s analysis of prior Congressional Budget Office scores, would hike premiums 20 percent and increase the number of people without insurance by 15 million. It would also save hundreds of billions as millions of Americans stop receiving subsidies and Medicaid benefits.

5 GOP senators who promised to be principled on health care and then caved when it was time to vote

And as you see, the damage from that skinny repeal is huge..