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Article snippet: Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) said Thursday that the Senate will likely be moving on from ObamaCare repeal next year. "Well, we obviously were unable to completely repeal and replace with a 52-48 Senate," McConnell told NPR. "We'll have to take a look at what that looks like with a 51-49 Senate. But I think we'll probably move on to other issues." The Senate Republican leader will see his majority shrink to 51-49 once Alabama Democrat Doug Jones is seated in January. McConnell told NPR that Republicans have already taken the "heart" out of the health-care law by repealing ObamaCare's individual mandate in the tax legislation they passed this week. That echoes remarks from MORE (R-Maine) to support passage of two bipartisan bills aimed at shoring up ObamaCare early next year. "There will be some adjustments that have to be made. I’ve committed to Sen. Collins, for example, that we can figure a way forward to help her. And she was a supporter of getting rid of the individual mandate, but we want to steady the insurance markets if we can," he said. Republicans had talked of returning to ObamaCare repeal in 2018 after their push to repeal the law collapsed in September. Sen. MORE (R-S.C.), a main author of an ObamaCare repeal and replacement bill this year, quickly pushed back on McConnell's comments. "To those who believe — including Senate Republican leadership — that in 2018 there will not be another effort to Repeal and Replace Obamacare — well you are ... Link to the full article to read more