The GOP health-care bill: Now meaner, and with less heart

The House health-care bill was bad. The Senate's might be even worse.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and fellow Republican senators.
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President Trump is reportedly worried that the House GOP's health-care bill is too "mean." He wants the Senate version to have "more heart."

But if anything, the Senate's in-progress bill is even meaner than what narrowly eked its way through the House.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.