--- title: Health Care Bill: Governors Blast Skinny Obamacare Repeal description: A bipartisan group of 10 governors have penned a letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. Chuck Schumer blasting the "skinny repeal" canonical: https://time.com/4875870/governors-letter-skinny-repeal-obamacare/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-27T00:49:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:45:01.276Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bipartisan Governors Blast Republican-Led 'Skinny Repeal' of Obamacare og:description: They urged the Senate leaders to bring their parties together to compromise og:url: https://time.com/4875870/governors-letter-skinny-repeal-obamacare/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bfef1a70e0092a1/6988d755bc6cfc87813e2679/senate-health-care-obamacare-repeal-rejected.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Senators Debate Health Care Bill On Capitol Hill og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bipartisan Governors Blast Republican-Led 'Skinny Repeal' of Obamacare twitter:description: They urged the Senate leaders to bring their parties together to compromise twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bfef1a70e0092a1/6988d755bc6cfc87813e2679/senate-health-care-obamacare-repeal-rejected.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bipartisan Group of Governors Blast Republican-Led 'Skinny Repeal' of Obamacare by [Aric Jenkins](/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Jul 27, 2017 12:49 AM CUT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to his office on July 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to his office on July 26, 2017 in Washington, DC.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images by [Aric Jenkins](/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Jul 27, 2017 12:49 AM CUT A bipartisan group of 10 governors have penned a letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, respectively — blasting the Republican-led [“skinny repeal” of Obamacare.](http://time.com/4875480/senate-obamacare-repeal-gop-plan-rejected/ "undefined") The letter argues that the [American Health Care Act](http://time.com/4874094/trump-liberation-obamacare/ "undefined") as it stands “still threatens coverage for millions of hardworking, middle class Americans,” and urges McConnell and Schumer to unite their parties and follow Sen. John McCain’s advice that he delivered Tuesday in his [return to Senate](http://time.com/4873455/john-mccain-health-care-vote-speech/ "undefined") to “return to regular order.” A so-called “skinny repeal” would get rid of just a few aspects of Obamacare, including the individual mandate and certain taxes. Democratic governors who signed the letter included Colorado’s John Hickenlooper, Montana’s Steve Bullock, Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf, Louisiana’s John Bel Edwards and Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe, > [](https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/890363491986571264) Republican governors included Nevada’s Brian Sandoval, Maryland’s Larry Hogan, Massachusetts’ Charlie Baker, Ohio’s John Kasich and Vermont’s Phil Scott. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4875870/governors-letter-skinny-repeal-obamacare/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4875870/governors-letter-skinny-repeal-obamacare/"},"headline":"Bipartisan Group of Governors Blast Republican-Led 'Skinny Repeal' of Obamacare","datePublished":"2017-07-27T00:49:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:45:01.276Z","description":"They urged the Senate leaders to bring their parties together to compromise","url":"https://time.com/4875870/governors-letter-skinny-repeal-obamacare/","keywords":["Senate","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bfef1a70e0092a1/6988d755bc6cfc87813e2679/senate-health-care-obamacare-repeal-rejected.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bfef1a70e0092a1/6988d755bc6cfc87813e2679/senate-health-care-obamacare-repeal-rejected.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Senators Debate Health Care Bill On Capitol Hill","caption":"Senators Debate Health Care Bill On Capitol Hill","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/senate/","name":"Senate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4875870/governors-letter-skinny-repeal-obamacare/","name":"Bipartisan Group of Governors Blast Republican-Led 'Skinny Repeal' of Obamacare"}}]}] ```