"He talked about making sure we have a bill that protects people with pre-existing conditions and helps people".
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said he agreed with Trump's comments on healthcare during an interview on MSNBC.
"We promised the voters we'd repeal Obamacare", Paul added.
The AHCA remains broadly unpopular; just 8% of Americans want the bill to pass the Senate in its current form, according to CNN. Alienating any of them could make approving the measure trickier for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who's been hoping for a vote before Congress' July 4 recess.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, 23 million fewer Americans would be insured under the House GOP plan, 14 million more people uninsured than under Obamacare.
President Donald Trump has reportedly asked Republican senators to draft a "more generous" healthcare bill than the "mean, mean, mean" American Health Care Act (AHCA) recently passed by the House.
Senate Republican leaders drafting a measure to revamp USA health-care policy appear to be following the same path as their House counterparts: writing a bill behind closed doors before springing it on other lawmakers and the public close to a vote. Another said Trump used a vulgar phrase to describe the House bill and told the senators, "We need to be more generous".
Trump said President Barack Obama's health care law "had been broken and it's been a broken promise". "And I think there's concern that will happen with the Senate bill". Then what? The GOP would have failed once again to make good on their decade-old pledge to end Obamacare.
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They told her to run because there had been a shooting, she told CNN, explaining she ran about a block with the workers. It was not immediately clear how many employees were at the building, but UPS said the warehouse employed 350 people.
That's because, as was gleefully noted, Mr. Trump spoke approvingly of the bill on May 4, when it was up for a vote in the House. "I don't think so", Hatch told reporters.
(Another 17 percent of Oklahomans say they have no opinion.) Across all the states that voted for President Trump previous year, we estimate that support for the A.H.C.A.is rarely over 35 percent.
"This is incredibly complex and from my standpoint, I need a whole lot more information before I agree to vote yes on a bill", Johnson said in a statement. It was done behind closed doors, Republicans said.
Rather than hide their work because they know if it is faulty, Senate Republicans should spend their time improving the Affordable Care Act. Will the Senate bill maintain protections that allow people with cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses to not only purchase health insurance but also afford it?
The bill also includes a provision to strip all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit low-income healthcare provider helping millions that conservatives have rallied to defund for ages.
Remember this when you vote: They took $800 billion from health care and transferred it to the richest people in the country, their base.
The fight seeped into what was billed as bipartisan exercise - a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on how to slash prescription drug prices. Assuming he did not mean these words as complimentary, they were definitely embarrassing, given his stout support for and intensive lobbying on behalf of the self-same "mean son-of-a-bitch" bill in the House.
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