After the narrow vote, House Republicans jaunted up to the White House Rose Garden to celebrate their triumph with President Donald Trump, who mugged for cameras and hailed the historic occasion.
"This is a first step in fixing the issues of the high out-of-pocket costs of health care premiums and the bureaucracy of the ACA, though it is not a flawless bill", Stivers said in a statement regarding the bill.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of ME, a moderate Republican whose vote will be critical in getting a bill to Trump's desk, voiced concerns about potential higher costs for older people and those with pre-existing conditions.
ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos grilled House Speaker Paul Ryan on Sunday over the American Health Care Act, which narrowly passed the House of Representatives on Thursday. Such a scenario would force the House and Senate to work together to forge a compromise bill. Before the Affordable Care Act banned health insurers from denying coverage or charging more for those with preexisting conditions, an insurer could regard treatment received for rape or domestic violence as a preexisting condition.
"We're not going to rush it", Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota said. "The Senate is starting from scratch". It would also restrict federal funding to states for Medicaid [official backgrounder] and cut taxes that had been used to pay for the funding.
Kasich said 700,000 people in OH use Medicaid, and many them have a mental illness, drug addictions or chronic diseases. It says the Republican plan will protect people with pre-existing conditions and provide families "with more choices, better coverage and lower premiums". The measure would also water down the subsidies that help consumers afford health insurance.
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Almost every major medical group, including the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, and the AARP advocacy group for older Americans, strongly opposed the Bill.
Republicans now control both the House and Senate.
During the presidential campaign, Trump promised not to cut Medicaid and other entitlement programs.
After that original score, House Republicans changed the bill in an effort to win enough votes from both their most conservative and their moderate members in order to pass the bill without any support from House Democrats. There are several Republican senators who are not on board.
It's a distinct pivot from Trump's pledge to eliminate Obamacare and overhaul healthcare. Flanked by Republican members of the House, the President said he was "confident" the Senate would also vote to repeal Obamacare. The CBO said that legislation would have taken away health insurance from some 24 million Americans.
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