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Article snippet: Senators walked off the floor around Friday after the stunning defeat of a seven-years-long pledge to repeal and replace ObamaCare, leaving the lawmakers to face one inevitable question: whats next for healthcare reform? Three main answers emerged — bipartisan committee work, stabilizing the insurance markets and administration action to change the healthcare law. One track is letting the Senate health committee’s chairman, Sen. MORE (R-S.D.). “We're not adverse to that,” Thune, the No. 3 Republican, said. “I just don’t have high hopes that we're going to get anything that really solves the problems that we think exist with ObamaCare today." Alexander has previously said that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee will hold hearings in the next few weeks to explore stabilizing the individual market — and that the hearings would happen “however the votes come out on the Senate healthcare bill.” In a statement early Friday morning, Murray said she looks forward to bipartisan hearings and more discussions. Sen. MORE (R-Alaska) — one of three Republicans to vote against skinny repeal — said she talked to Alexander on the floor, and he is already putting committee staff to work. He said in a statement early Friday morning that it was urgent something be done to help the individual market. “Tennessee's state insurance commissioner says our individual insurance market is very near collapse,” Alexander said. “Unless Congress acts, many of the 350,000 ... Link to the full article to read more