Dean Heller became the fifth GOP senator to say he would not support the measure in its current form.
"To me, the most important thing is the Medicaid expansion portion of it, and to make sure that Nevadans continue to have insurance", Heller, R-Nevada said.
Heller, who faces a hard re-election fight next year, said he would vote against the bill in its current form but did not rule out supporting a revamped version.
"For years, Republicans railed against the Affordable Care Act and claimed that they would repeal and replace it with something better", Menendez said on Friday.
He said he wouldn't vote for a bill that that "takes insurance away from tens of millions of Americans", which is sort of the bread-and-butter of Republican health policy.
Democrats have blasted the Senate bill, with some calling it "meaner". They said the measure missed delivering a GOP promise to Americans "to repeal Obamacare and lower their health care costs".
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The Republicans can have no more than two senators not vote for the bill if it is to pass.
House Republicans barely managed to muster enough votes with a series of last-minute amendments before the chamber passed a highly criticized Obamacare replacement plan last month.
Medicaid - the program created to help poor Americans get healthcare - will stop being expanded by 2021, meaning millions of them will not be able to access treatment. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mike Lee of Utah and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. He questioned the way that the Affordable Care Act dealt with pre-existing condition, but said the Senate bill did not do any better. Before the expansion, he said 18 percent of children were without health insurance.
Second, the Senate bill starts from the appalling House draft. The House bill gave states the right to allow insurers to do that, as long as they set up high-risk pools to cover the sickest residents.
Republican leaders are pushing to hold a vote on the legislation before lawmakers leave for the July 4 recess. The budget office analysis of the Senate bill is expected early next week. "A lot of Medicaid recipients will lose health insurance that they have gained, as the Medicaid program cuts through state block grants worsen over time and the dollars for supporting Medicaid expansion disappear". "However, it is also critical that strong incentives for people to keep continuous coverage be included to ensure a balanced market", the lobby group said.
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