Republicans divided after second health care Bill sags

Various versions of Republican healthcare legislation would lead to millions losing health insurance

Republicans in the US Congress were in chaos over health care legislation after a second attempt to pass a Bill in the Senate collapsed late on Monday, with President Donald Trump calling for an outright repeal of Obamacare and others seeking a change in direction toward bipartisanship.

“Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement.

Two of McConnell’s Senate conservatives announced just hours earlier that they would not support the Republican leader’s latest version of legislation to repeal portions of