The Senate's Quiet Effort to Edit Obamacare

The be­hind-the-scenes ef­fort to en­act that change could have im­plic­a­tions for the fate of Obama­care: Re­pub­lic­ans and Demo­crats alike hope that suc­cess­ful pas­sage of the le­gis­la­tion put for­ward by Scott and Shaheen aimed at shield­ing small busi­nesses from a spike in in­sur­ance premi­ums can serve as a tem­plate for fu­ture bi­par­tis­an agree­ment in Con­gress over changes to the Af­ford­able Care Act.