How the Senate healthcare bill failed: GOP divisions and a fed-up President

The Senate bill known as BCRA had virtually no support from healthcare, insurance, patient advocate and disease groups, and was harshly judged by the Congressional Budget Office. At the annual meeting of the American Hospital Association in May, Mr. Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, urged hospital executives to mobilize their employees in an effort to defeat the bill, which had been approved by the House just a few days earlier.