Healthcare bill really could become 'Trumpcare' with centrists in play

Trumpcare is dead. Long live Obamacare.

So cheered the Democrats when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote on the latest Republican healthcare bill as support for the legislation collapsed faster than the individual insurance market.

The math in the 52-48 Republican Senate is even more daunting than it was in the House when GOP leaders pulled and then just barely passed their healthcare bill in a death-defying act. And the Senate's handiwork would have to be able to pass the House again.

But maybe the stage is being set for something closer to Trumpcare than what we've already seen.

In public, Trump has dutifully supported whatever healthcare legislation Republican leadership believed could conceivably get through a chamber of Congress and celebrated in the Rose Garden when the House passed the American Health Care Act.