Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's decision to agree to smash Obamacare's individual mandate may remove one obstacle to passing the Senate Republican tax bill next week.
“I believe that the federal government should not force anyone to buy something they do not wish to buy in order to avoid being taxed,” she wrote in an op-ed in Alaska's Daily News-Miner newspaper posted online Tuesday.
Murkowski didn't mention the tax bill in the article. But she previously said she preferred not to mix it with health care, and she was one of three mavericks who killed the GOP's Obamacare repeal efforts earlier this year.
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