"I have deep concerns with details in the U.S. Senate's plan to fix America's health care system and the resources needed to help our most vulnerable, including those who are dealing with drug addiction, mental illness and chronic health problems and have nowhere else to turn", Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, said in a Twitter message.
Jenny Montgomery, who owns Montgomery Distillery, said at the Friday's rally that the proposed cuts to Medicaid in the draft bill mean it can't be allowed to pass.
To put the American people through that pain - while giving billionaires and corporations a massive tax cut in return - that's tough to fathom. Dean Heller of Nevada said Friday he opposes the GOP bill that would scuttle much of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, complicating the task party leaders face in guiding the banner legislation through the Senate. "And while I know that division makes it hard to listen to Americans with whom we disagree, that's what we need to do today", he said.
Nonetheless, Heller's announcement underscores the scant margin of error Republican leaders must deal with.
Facing unanimous Democratic opposition, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must get yes votes from 50 of the 52 GOP senators to avoid a defeat that would be a major embarrassment to President Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party.
The Congressional Budget Office predicts the House plan to replace the Affordable Care Act could cause 23 million people to lose their coverage.
Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada, facing a competitive 2018 re-election battle, Rob Portman of OH and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia expressed concerns about the bill's cuts to Medicaid and drug addiction efforts.
"Low-income people will end up paying higher premiums for plans that have bigger deductibles, compared to today", said Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, commenting on the Senate bill.
In both plans, states could keep coverage for the higher-income adults, but federal taxpayers would not continue to pay a larger share of the bill.
Further, the Senate bill would limit Medicaid even more over time by tying the annual growth rate of those funds to standard inflation, rather than more generous index of medical inflation, starting in 2025.
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"What will be available are policies that don't cover a number of benefits that people are used to getting coverage for today", Blumberg said.
The Republican bill aims to deliver on one of Trump's central campaign promises to "repeal and replace" the 2010 law passed under Obama that expanded coverage to millions of Americans.
"I've done in five months what other people haven't done in years", Trump said in an interview that aired Friday on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends".
"It's going to be very hard to get me to a yes", he said, noting that conservative Republican senators would likely be reluctant to add spending back to the measure.
"This bill that's now in front of the United States Senate is not the answer", Heller, a moderate who is up for re-election in 2018, said at a news conference in Las Vegas.
Flake is politically popular but faces a primary challenge from a conservative.
McConnell has acknowledged that he's willing to change the measure before it's voted on.
The rejection by the four conservative lawmakers, namely Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Ron Johnson, leaves Republicans short of the votes they need for passage, as Democrats are united in opposition.
The health care bill could underscore the perils of the president's poor job approval ratings, which have hovered around 40 percent this year.
"It was just released yesterday". Iowa opted to expand, and has added more than 150,000 people to its rolls since 2014. "And small tweaks over the course of the next couple weeks, under the guise of making these bills easier to stomach, can not change the fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation", Obama wrote in a statement on Thursday. The Senate parliamentarian will make that decision. It would also cut several taxes established by the Affordable Care Act and would restructure the way health insurance subsidies are distributed to low-to-middle income customers.
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