"We will have a lot of time committed to speaking just about the health care bill", Ernst said.
Three of them said they anxious it does not go far enough in repealing the ACA, known as Obamacare. "I'm announcing today that in this form, I will not support it".
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a statement: "We can't believe this needs to be said, but it's not okay to drag people out of wheelchairs when they're protesting legislation". What we do know is that, in Louisiana, the bill would kill the expansion of Medicaid that has brought health care to more than 425,000 residents-with 51,000 of those people living right here in New Orleans.
Johnson said he did not agree with GOP leadership's decision to develop the bill in secret. But he said "it's going to be very hard to get me to a "yes" on the bill. Several other Republicans, including moderate Susan Collins of ME, are still undecided about the legislation.
The Republican version "hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else", he added.
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Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who faces a competitive re-election race in 2018, says he has "serious concerns about the bill's impact on the Nevadans who depend on Medicaid".
The bill would also let states apply waivers to disregard some mandates of the Affordable Care Act, like the law's ban on insurance companies charging higher premiums for people with pre-existing medical conditions. None of the Senate's 48 Democrats are expected to support the package, meaning the legislation survives only if no more than two Republicans vote no.
"I regret that our Democratic friends made clear early on that they did not want to work with us in a serious, bipartisan way to address the Obamacare status quo".
Collins and others are anxious about the bill rolling back the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid and putting limits on federal funding of the program. Analysis shows that both the House and Senate versions of Trumpcare would strip coverage from millions and would make existing insurance policies worse and more expensive for almost all Americans. It also removes taxes put in place under the Affordable Care Act.
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