Cassidy's concerns have critics of the Senate bill hoping they can persuade him to oppose the proposal. Sen.
Mr Trump said getting approval would require traveling a "very, very narrow path" but that "I think we're going to get there".
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nevada, announced Friday he can't support the plan because it rolls back Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid and puts federal funding limits on the program.
"I can not support a bill that takes insurance away from tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Nevadans", he said.
Despite Republicans promising for seven years to repeal and replace Obamacare, including massive Medicaid expansion, Pye said that what the Republicans' bill would do instead is ensure that Medicaid recipients who are now covered under Obamacare - at taxpayers' expense - will retain "permanent" coverage. Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin immediately came out and said they couldn't support the bill in its current form.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has finally unwrapped his plan for dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law. It would phase out Obamacare's expansion of the Medicaid programme for the poor and disabled over three years, from 2021 to 2024, and then enact deeper cuts in the programme than the House version, beginning in 2025.
It also would provide more generous tax subsidies than the House bill to help low-income people buy private insurance.
Quoting a study of the bill's impact conducted by the liberal Center for American Progress in conjunction with Harvard researchers, the former Democratic presidential nominee wrote, "Forget death panels".
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The Senate's draft bill proposes repealing the 3.8 percent net investment income tax on high earners retroactively to the start of 2017.
HORSLEY: But the Senate bill preserves another, more popular piece of Obamacare, the requirement that insurance companies cover everyone, even those with pre-existing conditions.
"It's going to be a good bill", Mr Trump said in a separate Fox News interview to air on Sunday.
Ernst declined to comment on any other provisions during a news conference at the Iowa Capitol, saying, "We have 142 pages to go through".
To get a better sense of what that would mean on a state-by-state basis - and who might be hardest-hit by a rollback - we charted out some of the key aspects of Medicaid and the expansion under the ACA.
Realizing they're outnumbered, Democrats and their liberal allies were planning events around the US over the next few days aimed at building public opposition to the bill. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and MoveOn.org were planning weekend rallies in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
The Senate version would also prohibit states from further expanding Medicaid, as well as freeze Medicaid enrollment.
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