I don't believe for one second that the Senate hasn't been discussing this issue, maybe not so much formally, but if they haven't been discussing it they dropped the ball on something they should have seen coming soon.
Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said it will take weeks or maybe months for the Senate to develop a plan because many lawmakers in the chamber haven’t yet engaged on the issue.
“There hasn’t been any health care discussion over here,” Grassley said.