By Ronald J. Hansen |The Republic
At least two Arizona Republicans joined the state’s four Democrats in the U.S. House to help torpedo the GOP’s health-care plan Friday in a move that seemingly ends efforts to reshape the nation’s health-care system.
House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the American Health Care Act without a vote as it became clear the House Freedom Caucus, the rightmost flank of the House Republicans, maintained more than enough “no” votes to sink the measure with unified Democratic opposition.
Arizona has four members of the Freedom Caucus and at least two of them, Republican Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, said in recent days that the bill was insufficiently conservative.
