"Remember, ObamaCare is dead", President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday.
"It's not that they're opposed", he said.
On Fox News Friday, Trump said "It's not that they're opposed".
Barack Obama has called the Republican replacement for his signature healthcare legislation, Obamacare, a "massive transfer of wealth" from the poor and middle-class to the wealthy.
The bill would cut and redesign the Medicaid program for low-income and disabled people, and erase taxes on higher earners and the medical industry that helped pay for the roughly 20 million Americans covered by Obama's law.
The Senate bill looks a great deal like the House bill, which would leave 23 million more people without insurance over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
"I can not support a piece of legislation that takes insurance away from tens of millions of Americans and tens of thousands of Nevadans", Heller said.
Moller said he wouldn't presume how Kennedy might vote, but noted the senator's public statements have been critical of Medicaid spending and supportive of efforts to scale back the program.
Democrats are united in opposition to the proposal, which was worked out in secret by a group led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Further complicating the issue for him is Nevada's Republican Governor, Brian Sandoval, an outspoken supporter of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, said his first review of the Senate legislation "raises several red flags for the state". They said the measure missed delivering a GOP promise to Americans "to repeal Obamacare and lower their health care costs". If it fails to reduce the deficit sufficiently or results in too many people losing insurance coverage, McConnell could fail to secure the 50 GOP votes he needs to secure passage.
Health care stocks pulled back Friday, but the sector was still on track to post a weekly gain of more than 3 percent.
Other Republicans appeared more willing to embrace it.
"You have to protect Medicaid expansion states". A Reuters/Ipsos poll this month found almost 60 percent of adults believed the House bill would make insurance costlier for low-income citizens and people with pre-existing conditions. Lawmakers are scheduled to break on July 28.
Any new Senate bill would have to be reconciled with the House version.
For the House of Representatives' version of healthcare, Mr Trump held regular meetings with representatives at the White House.
If three Republicans defect, the party can not reach the majority vote it needs to pass the measure. This week he called for a health plan "with heart".
"If there's a chance you might get sick, get old or start a family, this bill will do you harm", he wrote.
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, which represents health insurers covering more than 100 million people in the US, said it will continue to push for a replacement for Obamacare's coverage requirement as well.
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