Washington — An angry President Donald Trump railed on Tuesday against dissenters in his party who dashed his months-long effort to dismantle his predecessor’s landmark healthcare law, as moderates balked at Republican plans to scrap Obamacare without a replacement. With several efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) now squashed, the Senate’s top Republican said he would forge ahead with what could be a last-gasp vote — on a new plan to kill off most of the 2010 reforms of Trump’s predecessor with no replacement at the ready. A vote to proceed to the bill would be held "early next week", Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told colleagues, even though the effort appeared doomed, with three Republicans declaring their opposition to the plan. The previous day, four Republicans had lined up against McConnell’s earlier health overhaul, flatlining it in the chamber, where the party can afford only two defectors in order to get the measure passed. And with senator...
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