Senate Republicans Unveil Health Care Bill, Protests Erupt

He could not immediately point to anything in it that would keep him from voting for it, although he said he expected changes to the bill in the Senate. "It means that one in five Americans who are getting their health care through Medicaid are going to have to suffer through those cuts".

MORRIS: Not at all because it's still, at the end of the day, when the period ends of the rollback, that there are people who are going to lose their coverage. A Reuters/Ipsos poll this month found almost 60 percent of adults believed the House bill would make insurance costlier for low-income Americans and people with pre-existing conditions. "We need to take steps to make health care more accessible and affordable for every Montanan, but this bill will leave thousands of Montanans without health care and doesn't address rising costs".

U.S. Senate leaders on Thursday unveiled a draft of legislation to replace Obamacare, proposing to kill a tax on the wealthy that pays for it and reduce aid to the poor to cut costs. In reality, ADAPT is a left-wing activist group that routinely encourages its members to carry out acts of civil disobedience with the goal of being arrested and making headlines. Jeff Merkley, of OR said in a statement. "We believe that health care is a basic human right, and we will get out there and fight for it".

It's no surprise to Barack Obama that Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but he wasn't prepared for just how "mean" their replacement would be.

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. Chris Collins (R-Erie County) and John Faso (R-Columbia County) that would shift the local share of Medicaid outside New York City on to the state - a move that he said would cost the state an additional $2.3 billion a year. Uses a less generous inflation adjustment than House bill. Montana did not have a vote on that since Ryan Zinke had resigned his seat to become Secretary of the Interior and Gianforte was not elected until a few weeks after the vote. "Since then, almost 34,000 Alaskans have received life-saving care-and peace of mind knowing they have health care coverage". The town hall is at Montana Electric Cooperatives' Association, 501 Bay Drive, and starts at 6:30 p.m. Daines is also holding a town hall, though by telephone, not in person.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has already indicated that he will not support the bill in its current form because he said it doesn't go far enough to uproot the ACA, also known as Obamacare - the same reason many conservatives didn't support the GOP's American Health Care Act earlier this year. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell smiles as he leaves the chamber after announcing the release of the Republicans' healthcare bill which represents the party's long-awaited attempt to scuttle much of President Barac. The Senate bill would repeal the tax in 2023.

"This health care scheme sells out the middle class, hurts seniors and children and devastates individuals with disabilities to finance tax breaks for the very rich", Casey said in a statement issued just before noon. More than 79,000 Montanans are covered under expansion.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, seen by many as a key vote to turn one way or the other on the bill, said in a Facebook post, "I will do my due diligence and thoroughly review it". "This bill could be life or death for many Montanans, as lower-income, rural, older, and sicker Montanans risk losing affordable coverage".

Then in a new twist, in 2025 those per-recipient caps would be based on general inflation increases instead of health care cost increases, which are usually about twice as much as inflation. The revised Senate bill also cuts off support at 350 percent of the federal poverty line, which hits older Montanans.