"We will thoroughly examine the language in the U.S. Senate's health care bill, and we'll be thoughtful in our analysis of how it may affect Indiana's programs and citizens-as well as the opportunities it may provide for us to better meet the needs of Hoosiers".
Those senators - Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Mike Lee of Utah - released a statement stating that while they cannot support the bill as its now written, they are open to negotiating changes that could ultimately win their support. And key votes such as Sens.
Regardless of how the Senate votes, the next week will certainly bring forth quite the debate.
Both bills cut $800 billion in funding for Medicaid - much of which covers health care for poor children, for the disabled and for the elderly in nursing homes.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday night he hopes to "surprise" with a plan that has "heart".
"It's going to very good", Trump said at the White House "A little negotiation but it's going to be very good".
Groups such as MoveOn are working overtime to rally Democrats and Independents to defeat the bill.
The 142 page bill - labeled a "discussion draft" - was posted online by the GOP, as the Senate Majority Leader made clear he's ready to move forward.
McConnell is pushing toward a vote next week but Paul's stance throws that into question.
But some Republican senators, as well as all the Senate's Democrats, have complained about McConnell's proposal, the secrecy with which he drafted it and the speed with which he'd like to whisk it to passage.
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Mr McConnell has only a thin margin of error: The bill would fail if just three of the Senate's 52 GOP senators oppose it. Those who are charged with voting on this need time to at least read the bill. Nevada's Dean Heller also said he has "serious concerns" and wants to be confer with his state's governor. With only a week until the Senate vote and no committee evaluations, the heat is on to either pass or kill the plan.
In other areas the cuts are actually much more aggressive.
Meanwhile, protesters railed against the Senate healthcare bill during a sit-in outside of Mr McConnell's office on Capitol Hill.
The bill would phase out the extra money Obama's law provides to states that have expanded coverage under the federal-state Medicaid program for low-income people.
Many moderates are still likely to be displeased that the Senate draft will nearly certainly result in significantly more uninsured people than under the ACA, although it could look a little better than the House version on that measure, which is estimated to cost 23 million people their coverage in a decade.
"This bill will result in higher costs, less care and millions of Americans will lose their health insurance, particularly through Medicaid", Schumer said. "States can't rely on a temporary bucket of funding that could become a bullseye for cuts later".
But the bill would allow states to use an existing ACA program, known as 1332, for states to file waivers with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to scale back what sort of plans insurers offer. In December, the then-president-elect promised to save 1,100 jobs at the air conditioner and furnace manufacturing plant that had been slated to go to Mexico in return for $7 million in state financial incentives.
Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) at one point had requested $45 billion over the course of a decade to keep the battle against opioids on the nation's front burner. Reversing course on some of the more popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act, it threatens to leave tens of millions of lower-income Americans without insurance and those with chronic or expensive medical conditions once again financially vulnerable. This is a concession to moderates, who weren't pleased that the House version would end the enhanced support for new enrollees in 2020. The bill would eliminate the requirement that Americans buy insurance or face a tax penalty. Fewer middle class folks would get help because only those earning up to 350% of the poverty level would qualify, rather than the 400% threshold contained in Obamacare. However, it also cuts back on those subsidies.
It also would determine those credits based on age and income - that's a change from the House bill, which based credits mostly around age. Still, the similarities to Obamacare will likely infuriate conservatives such as Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who decried the House version as "Obamacare Lite".
Planned Parenthood: The bill would strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood Federation of America for one year. Federal assistance will continue through 2019 to decrease costs for low-income Americans.
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