Capitol police forcibly removed protesters from the hallway outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) office amid chants of "No cuts to Medicaid!" in the minutes after Senate Republicans released the text of their bill to repeal Obamacare.
"If the bill is good for Nevada, I'll vote for it and if it's not, I won't", said Heller, whose state added 200,000 additional people under Obama's law.
The unveiling of the legislation will mark the first time that the majority of the Senate GOP conference gets a comprehensive look at the health care proposal.
In his statement, Sanders also called for Americans to join together to fight back against the "disastrous" bill.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, noted that the president had asked for a bill with more "heart" than the House bill, but this bill, Schumer said, is "every bit as bad" as the House version and maybe "meaner". Starting in 2020, that threshold would be lowered to 350 percent under the Senate bill - but anyone below that line could get the subsidies if they're not eligible for Medicaid.
The emerging Senate bill was described by people on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
But Portman and Capito, like all senators, will have a chance to introduce amendments to the bill when it heads to the Senate floor, which McConnell said is likely to happen next week.
The House's tax credits were tied to people's ages, a change the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said would boost out-of-pocket costs to many lower earners. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen.
The House's bill had a rocky road to passage, with Speaker Paul Ryan pulling an earlier version before it could reach the floor.
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Mike Conaway, R-Texas, "I know of no evidence that, through cyber-intrusions, votes were altered or suppressed in some way". Johnson said, however, that if he were to do it over again, he would have "camped out" in front of the DNC's headquarters.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans would cut Medicaid, end penalties for people not buying insurance and erase a raft of tax increases as part of their long-awaited plan to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional aides and lobbyists say.
So why do Republicans keep persisting with their health care bill?
The Senate bill would, beginning in 2020, phase out over four years extra money that Obamacare offered to states that expanded Medicare coverage for low-income people, The Associated Press reported.
"Simply put, this bill will result in higher costs, less care, and millions of Americans will lose their health insurance, particularly through Medicaid". That move could prompt states to reduce the size of their Medicaid programs.
Mike Lee, R-Utah, said it's, "apparently being written by a small handful of staffers for members of the Republican leadership in the Senate". But Planned Parenthood has always been controversial, mainly because it also provides abortion services. House Republicans have challenged the legality of the $7 billion in subsidies - which help cover consumers' deductibles and copays - in court, and insurers have warned that they will have to hike premiums dramatically next year unless the federal government commits to continuing the payments.
"It'll make people's deductibles skyrocket" said Shannon Sowards, 39, of Memphis, Tennessee, a Trump supporter who took the poll. But it was not clear to some lawmakers Wednesday what that would entail. I'm probably going to support it. "I like the idea of preexisting conditions being more firmly clarified", Portman said.
"It may well be that prices don't come down at all", he said.
A majority of those Republicans say they now support the compromise bill, while many Democrats remain opposed.
Several, GOP senators have expressed concern about moving quickly to a vote before they fully understand how it would impact health insurance markets and their constituents.
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