Two major groups representing older Americans and doctors urged United States senators Monday to be careful in making big changes to Obamacare, as their Republican counterparts in the House of Representatives have called for.
Older New Hampshire residents would see higher health care premiums under the House-passed Republican health care plan, but younger people would see significant reductions, according to projections made by an organization that tracks health- and insurance-related issues. She said under the law more people have been getting access to preventive care.
Making this such a crucial debate for the GOP is the fact that 20 Republican senators hail from states that expanded Medicaid, meaning the House version of the bill would significantly hamper the healthcare now available in those areas.
Senate Republicans are warning that the odds are high that Trumpcare is going to fail in the Senate, which is going to leave Republicans begging to do a deal with Democrats on health care. Medicare is government health care for everyone over age 65. The CBO, scoring an earlier version of the legislation that passed the House, said it would cause millions of more Americans to pay more for insurance or lose it entirely. The ACA forbids insurers from denying coverage to people based on preexisting conditions. That was the lowest percentage in the country, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz admitted that the task is not going to be easy, but emphasized to CNN that "the conversations we are having are productive".
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The latter change basically eliminates Medicaid as an "entitlement" that provides predictable federal funding for state-identified beneficiaries.
Republican Pat Toomey, Casey's colleague in the Senate, argues spending on Medicaid must be scaled back.
But as the Senate has taken up its version of Obamacare repeal-and-replacement legislation, it looked like Senate "moderates" would finally focus on the nation's huge federal-state program for providing low-income people with health coverage.
An aide to one Democrat who attended the session said the lawmakers discussed health care ideas in "broad strokes". If the Senate passes a bill that guts Medicaid even more than the House proposal, those senators could face a lot of heat in the 2020 election cycle.
A number of GOP senators have a dim view on the House bill, which is projected to lead to sharp drops in the number of insured Americans if it were to become law.
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