If that opposition holds, it would scuttle the GOP proposal, released Thursday, to repeal and replace the health legislation often referred to as Obamacare.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, called the bill signing "a significant step to reform the VA with a renewed goal and ability to serve our veterans". No Democrats are expected to support either the House or Senate versions.
Four conservative Senate Republicans - including onetime Trump presidential rivals Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas - said they could not support the plan because it looked too much like Obamacare.
"They want people to not be dependent on government for health insurance but if you don't then make businesses responsible for providing it, where are folks supposed to go?" she said.
Sen. Susan Collins of ME reiterated her opposition to language blocking federal money for Planned Parenthood, which many Republicans oppose because it provides abortions. Many Republicans oppose the group because it provides abortions, the AP said.
It shows the problem elected Republicans had with Obamacare was really how it did not make the working poor struggle enough for access to affordable health care. Several other Republicans, including moderate Susan Collins of ME, are still undecided about the legislation. It has been one of the more successful health reforms in USA history in that it provided medical coverage to about 20 million people who didn't have it before, and saved both lives and bank accounts of patients with pre-existing conditions.
Asked about the bill's impact on Medicaid insurance coverage for lower-income Iowans, Ernst said, "I wouldn't say they are losing it".
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NSW also asked to the authorities and the people living in the region to take precaution while going out to survive the heat rage. Others went to a bar where the temperature is set at 23 degrees and glasses, walls and seats are sculpted from ice.
ABC News also reported that as the GOP bill was being released Thursday morning there was a "large protest gathered outside McConnell's office, with people in wheelchairs staging a 'die-in, ' and protesters chanting that no changes be made to Medicaid". Jeff Flake's Phoenix office Friday, demanding that he vote against a Republican health care bill that new analyses claim could hit Arizona particularly hard.
"Death panels" is a reference to the frequently-debunked Republican attack against the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010 that the law would allow government bureaucrats to determine care for elderly and sick people. He said he would vote against it if it hurts Ohio. I honestly hoped we'd be wrong and that Americans would be better off.
Besides the five who've announced outright opposition, several other GOP senators - conservatives and moderates - have declined to commit to the new overhaul.
"We live in the wealthiest country on earth". "She has met with and heard the concerns of many Mainers about their health care challenges, and she will continue to do so as she studies the impact of this legislation on ME and the nation". But federal funding for the program would be capped, based either on a fixed amount per enrollee in states or as a lump-sum block grant paid directly to states, according to published reports.
He said his clinic mostly serves Medicaid families and kids. The Senate's long awaited bill cuts Medicaid even more. And while he did that job, he talked to Americans about their health care just about every day. That would lead to deeper cuts over time, since the cost of medical care typically rises faster than the cost of all consumer goods in the U.S.
One could argue by not pegging tax credits to local premium costs, the House bill would bring down health care spending by encouraging people to move to lower cost areas.
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