Republicans Delay Vote on Senate Health Care Bill

There will be no vote on Senate Republican's health care bill this week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided Tuesday to delay a vote on the bill until after the July 4 break, CNN reports. 

"We're still working toward getting at least 50 people in a comfortable place," CBS News quotes McConnell as saying. While he says he's still "optimistic" about the bill, he wants to make changes to it and get a new Congressional Budget Office score. 

The bill was estimated to leave 22 million more people without insurance, and five Republican senators had publicly expressed concern with it.

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