House Republican 'bewildered' by ObamaCare vote

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The final version, which reduces taxes, but will likely put millions of people at risk of losing their health insurance - including people with preexisting conditions, older Americans, and the poor - has not yet been evaluated by the CBO.

The ad that will run in McSally's district features a narrator claiming that "McSally voted to raise your costs and cut coverage for millions". Republican Whip John Cornyn said this week.

"It is more about politics", said Democratic Sen.

But on Sunday, Ryan said the ObamaCare legislation was more than 2,000 pages long, compared to the GOP's replacement bill, which was under 200 pages long.

Collins has already said she is wary of the House's plan.

"They've been wrong before and they can certainly be wrong again, "she also said during Friday's White House press briefing".

While away from the White House, he couldn't escape the heated debate over his health care repeal and reform legislation.

Obama defended his signature achievement in Boston Sunday night while accepting the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. It would roll back state-by-state expansions of Medicaid, which covered millions of low-income Americans, CNN reported.

Don Stewart, a senior aide to McConnell, said critics were getting "hung up on process" while ignoring the problems of Obamacare such as higher costs and limited choices.

"No one's asked any Democrat, and I'm the most centrist Democrat willing to work and fix things if people really want to do it", said Manchin, who's up for re-election in 2018 in a state that Trump carried in 2016.

Eliza, what would you like to see happen with health care?

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Republicans pushed their healthcare restructuring through the House on a 217-213 vote, handing President Donald Trump his first major legislative success. But the underlying message remains: If the ACA's protections for people with pre-existing conditions are scrapped in the GOP's health bill, sick people in the individual market will pay much, much more for health insurance.

But Schick is anxious what will happen to her insurance, when she moves off her parents' plan with her now pre-existing condition. Yet the Senate, unhappy with the bill the House came up with, plans to completely rewrite their own piece of legislation.

The President congratulated and thanked House Speaker Paul Ryan and praised House Republicans for coming together.

But he's defending the House version anyway. In other words, people could unwittingly buy low-priced plans that cover next to nothing.

Both spoke on ABC's "This Week".

Mr Trump's American Health Care Act was passed by the House of Representatives last week with a majority of just four.

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who urged a series of policy changes to interrogation methods, talks to reporters as she walks to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on December 9, 2014.

The Senate will not be voting on the proposed healthcare act as is.

It also hasn't yet been analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office to determine how many consumers might lose coverage.

"I shouldn't say this to a great gentleman and my friend from Australia, because you have better health care than we do, but we're going to have great health care very soon", Trump told Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. She says senators will "come up with a whole new fresh approach".

According to a study by Alavere in the individual market today almost 245,000 Americans have pre-existing conditions.

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