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Time for an update on the Senate’s health bill, and it’s not an encouraging one.

As I’ve feared, the Senate may try to repeat a version of the House’s “Upton strategy,” in which it makes modest, last-minute tweaks and pretends those tweaks fix the bill’s enormous problems.

In the House, an amendment from Fred Upton, a Michigan congressman, was the vehicle for doing so. In the Senate, changes to an amendment from Ted Cruz could be.

“As with the Upton Amendment in the House, these changes would do little or nothing to mitigate the harm the bill would cause,” Jacob Leibenluft, a former Obama administration official now at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, wrote to me.