The narrow passage of the bill in the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives came after House Republicans failed to reach a consensus in March and a vote on the issue was scrapped.
Michigan Republicans were likewise united in the condemnation of Obamacare - also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Democrats said the American Health Care Act will leave millions uninsured, ABC News reported.
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-3rd Dist.), whose proposal on the state waivers led to approval of the Republican measure, said the Medicaid cuts are created to force states to try hold down health care costs. Among the vulnerable Republicans is two-term New Jersey Representative Tom MacArthur, who helped revive the bill by authoring a key amendment on pre-existing conditions. "Our bill actually brings us closer to choice and competition".
President Trump and Republican leaders flooded social media and Sunday talk shows with dubious numbers and faulty defenses for the much-maligned Obamacare replacement bill that narrowly passed a vote in the House.
No Democratic House members voted for the bill.
"People can go to the state that they want to live in", Pittenger said on Tuesday. 'We are going to get this passed through the Senate.
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The Senate's healthcare working group includes the Republican leadership, several committee chairmen and a combination of conservatives such as Ted Cruz of Texas and more moderate Republicans from politically important swing states such as Rob Portman of OH and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
"We're going to draft our own bill and I'm convinced that we're going to take the time to do it right", she said.
If you have a pre-existing medical condition, the bill increases the odds that you will be denied or priced out of insurance coverage - thanks to a provision that allows states to opt out of the federal mandate and for insurance companies to cut back or deny coverage.
The health secretary said Republicans believe insurance under their plan "is going to be more affordable".
But Republican legislators were confronted by angry constituents at townhall meetings, who protested when they realised that they would lose their Obamacare medical coverage. This week, House Republicans, under heavy pressure from Donald Trump's White House, sped the bill through before taking off for a weeklong recess at home.
Witness a prime example featuring OZY Editor-in-Chief Carlos Watson, who interviewed Paul Ryan on MSNBC in the heady summer of 2009. She says one of her biggest concerns about the plan is for people who have preexisting conditions, which is half of all Americans.
Repealing Obamacare is critically important for Kentucky, where the individual market has collapsed, leaving only one insurance carrier in 31 of 35 counties in the First District, and where the unsustainable expanded Medicaid program now pays for more than thirty percent of our population.
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