Editorial: GOP could be courting disaster on Obamacare and abortion

As Congress looks to prop up Obamacare, none of the bills being considered includes the Hyde Amendment.
As Republicans prepare to celebrate their tax reform victory, a potential disaster lurks right around the corner.

Mitch McConnell said Monday that on his to-do list this week is passage of bills to prop up Obamacare. In a December 1 colloquy with Senator Susan Collins of Maine, whose vote on tax reform McConnell was desperate to get, the Senate majority leader expressed support for passing additional legislation funding Obamacare by the end of the year.

The politics and policy of an Obamacare bailout bill absent real reform is bad enough by itself. “I personally will not be part of any bailout of insurance companies without reform,” Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the majority whip, vowed on the Senate floor on