(CNN)Senate Republicans have been trying to thread the needle on health care reform for weeks, but they've come up empty so far in their search for the perfect compromise.
Why can't they find agreement? Each senator has a different reason to oppose the legislation -- from ideology to re-election concerns to the demographics and health nuances of individual states.
With all Democrats opposed to repealing Obamacare and only 52 members in the chamber's slim majority, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell can afford to lose only two GOP defectors in his quest to push a bill through his chamber. But it won't be easy: the members he needs to convince sit on the extremes in some categories of the party and country.Ten Republicans said they would oppose a previous version of the Senate Republicans' plan and many others had expressed reservations, so the majority leader spent weeks rewriting it and wants to hold a vote in August.
To explain why the Senate's Obamacare repeal plan is in so much trouble, here are nine charts focused on the ten Republicans who opposed McConnell's earlier bill and four of those who had real problems with it
An analysis from the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds nearly one-in-six nonelderly residents of West Virginia and Kentucky would become uninsured under the original Senate plan, dialing up the heat on Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Sen. Rand Paul to vote for a bill they can stand behind. Paul lashed out against McConnell's original plan, saying "they're not going to fix the death spiral of Obamacare." The new Senate plan released Thursday isn't likely to change those projections. One-in-eight nonelderly residents in North Dakota, Ohio and Nevada would lose insurance, drawing attention from Sen. John Hoeven, Sen. Rob Portman and Sen. Dean Heller.
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