Democrat Pelosi slams GOP health care bill

Upton and Long's proposal would provide $8 billion over five years to help some people with pre-existing medical conditions afford coverage. Reps. Fred Upton of MI and Billy Long of Missouri emerged from a White House meeting with Trump saying they could now support the bill, thanks to the addition of $8 billion over five years to help people with pre-existing conditions.

House Speaker Paul Ryan sought to assure conservatives on Wednesday that a massive government-wide spending bill is a win for President Donald Trump and Capitol Hill Republicans, citing "a really good down payment" on rebuilding the military and "the biggest increase in border security in a decade". She said the new changes don't improve the bill and instead are "an assault on the good health of the American people".

The latest iteration of the GOP bill would let states escape a current requirement that insurers charge healthy and seriously ill customers the same rates.

The CBO's "score" of the original bill estimated that 24 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2026 than would be the case if Obamacare remained in place, and that individual premiums would be about 15 to 20 percent higher in the first two years of the bill becoming law.

Far from the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one beloved and familiar song meant to pump up House GOP leaders ahead of Thursday's successful health care vote blared in Washington D.C. He criticized the Senate's filibuster rules as though he had just become aware of them, and budget director Mick Mulvaney appeared at a press briefing to slam Democrats for claiming victory in the budget negotiations. Leaders have spent days scrambling to round up the votes for their legislation. "Those are the kinds of things that should never happen, and.it's damaging to our credibility", Mr Corker said.

Upton's conversion was especially significant because he's a respected, centrist voice on health issues and former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Lawmakers started debating on the House floor Thursday.

But Republicans have expressed enthusiasm over the inclusion of $25 billion in increased defense appropriations, additional border security funding and language authorizing the expansion of charter schools.

House Republicans will vote on a bill to repeal major portions of Democratic President Barack Obama's health care law. We had this ability to buy health insurance that we can afford.

"That's why we have to make sure this passes, to save those people from Obamacare that continues to collapse", McCarthy said. The bill includes more than $76 billion for the Pentagon's war fund, known as the overseas contingency operations (OCO) account, which is used for operations overseas such as those against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The plan fails to fund numerous things Trump promised while on the campaign trail a year ago - most notably, it omits funding for Trump's "big, attractive wall" that would divide the US from Mexico.